Ex Machina is a provider of high-quality IT consulting and systems integration services. We have teamed up some of the best professionals in open source technologies to ensure "Made in Switzerland" development standards.
Our software development and test process is based on best-of-breed agile methodologies where the Client is always in control of the project. In addition, Ex Machina follows up on its business solutions through SLA-based support contracts.
Enterprise applications
We help our Clients to manage, design, and develop applications of any size and complexity. Ex Machina can leverage on its vast expertise and experience to deliver cutting-edge solutions in a highly productive manner. We understand our Clients? needs, priorities, and expectations. Our agile methodology ensures short development time as well as a high level of software quality.
Content and Knowledge Management
No matter the size of your organization, Content and Knowledge Management is today more critical than ever to ensure your competitive advantage. While social networks and community portals are the most relevant trends on the internet, web 2.0 solutions have lead to a new approach to Content and Knowledge sharing through users' participation.
Ex Machina deploys Content and Knowledge Management Systems based on the most popular open source comunity portals and targeted to businesses of any size, from small firms to large enterprise communities.
Mobile
Thinking to offer a mobile-based service to your customers? Whether you have in mind a new mobile-based service or to enable mobile access to an existing application, get in touch with us! We have experts in application design and development for mobile operators such as Vodafone, Tiscali, and 3.
Open Source Delivers, blog from our partner Black Duck Software, Inc
The Weekly Wrap Up
Posted by Megan DeGruttola on 3 Feb 2012
There were a variety of different open source stories in the news this week Companies communities foundations and projects were all topics of conversation Here s a sample of this week s open source news Steven J Vaughan-Nichols gave his review on the Cinnamon throwback to GNOME x with his...
Open Source and the Enterprise: A Call to Action
Posted by Colin Hope-Murray on 2 Feb 2012
Ask any non-IT executive from a major enterprise whether they would consider open source to improve their current business operations or play a part in their long-term strategies and you will probably get one of the following responses Is that the same as outsourcing We openly compete all our acquisitions...
DoD thinks that open source is the Bomb!
Posted by Phil Odence on 1 Feb 2012
The U S federal government is not always the zippiest most progressive organization in the world With that backdrop it is impressive to see the push being made to remove barriers to the use of open source software Makes one proud to be an Amuhrcan for those who remember Lyndon...
Maintaining Application Security While Leveraging the use of Open Source Software
Posted by Phil Marshall on 30 Jan 2012
Building better software faster by automating managing and auditing the selection use and governance of open source across the application lifecycle isn t just a lofty goal it s a prerequisite for today s shortened development cycles with high expectations of innovative game-changing applications In fact today s most efficient...
The Weekly Wrap Up
Posted by Megan DeGruttola on 27 Jan 2012
There was a lot of open source news this week HP shared its roadmap for the WebOS release it will be available by September under the Apache License Version congrats to the of you who correctly chose Apache in our poll the Android App Inventor was open sourced by Google...

Working with outsourcers and distributed teams often leads to IT solutions based on several open source and third party code with related licenses and Intellectual Property (IP) obligations. IP rights coming from various open source components should not be underestimated and can turn into a cumbersome issue for your legal counsel and/or IT department.
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