Hi Nick, Thanks for the endorsement. Can you elaborate a bit more on how you built the Alumni Network application? E.g. what kind of functionalities are used there to accomplish it?
Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Nick Rosser <nros...@solveda.com> wrote: > 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 > >
