In Business With eZ Systems: Being an eZ Partner
Friday 21 September 2007 5:00:00 am
In the early days of Nexus Consulting, we wanted to make our own software and be able to make someone else's day easier through our innovation. Today, eZ Publish is not only an enterprise CMS, but also a solid framework for development within our business. We use this framework to make specialized software for our verticals.
For example, the ERP business has used this model for several years. The specialized software is sold as an extension to eZ Publish. This means that the eZ Publish kernel remains intact, as the extension is built on top of the system. This is one of the features that make eZ Publish such a powerful tool.
A good example of innovation and partnership is the relationship we have with eZ Systems and another eZ Partner, Silver Solutions from Germany. Silver Solutions made a web connector for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (an ERP solution), and we did two projects using this extension in late 2004. When eZ saw how this could interact with eZ Publish, they arranged a meeting for us with one of Norway's largest Microsoft Dynamics Nav vendors, Hands ASA.
We then made a presentation on how eZ Publish could interact with Microsoft Dynamics Nav (using the web connector) and the people at Hands were impressed. We signed a partnership with them in the autumn of 2005. We now work together with eZ to make new relations with other partners in the ERP community and to explore what other integrations we can make.