All,
I thought it may be interesting for some community members to share one
of recent successful implementations. I would welcome others to do so,
seeing how OFBiz is being used for real implementations is good
knowledge sharing and good for the community as a whole.
Check out http://online.swedishinstitute.edu.
The Swedish Institute is a leading educator for massage, acupuncture and
personal training with a large facility in New York City. Like many
educational institutions they offer Continuing Education classes -- a
great way for their Alumni to keep up with the latest techniques and an
excellent source of revenue!
We used our OFBiz extension BigFish for this implementation. There were
some interesting special requirements given that the offerings were not
traditional products but registration for continuing education classes.
As usual we found that the OFBiz data model and service layers provided
everything we needed to pull off this project (we have not yet been
stumped, OFBiz is truly Open for Business!).
In addition to the eCommerce site we built a custom Alumni Network
application using OFBiz. This offers any Alumni the ability to
authenticate their Alumni status, and participate in a number of private
features such as Rental Office offerings, Volunteer Postings and a
private Message Board.
For a quick look, there is public access to the Locate-a-Practitioner
function at
http://online.swedishinstitute.edu/alumni/control/locatePractitioner
For more information about BigFish check out http://bigfish.solveda.com.
Nick
