OpenGeo and Prodevelop Announce Partnership to Offer Solutions for Open Source Geospatial Users
Prodevelop will distribute OpenGeo Suite and provide first-line of Support for Spanish OpenGeo Suite Users
New York, New York, July 21 — OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, has announced a reseller agreement with the Spanish company Prodevelop, specialists in providing open source GIS solutions. This partnership enables Prodevelop to provide first-line customer support for local users of the OpenGeo Suite.
Located in Valencia, Spain, Prodevelop has strong expertise in the development of open source geospatial, mobile solutions, and software engineering in sectors including ports, agriculture, government, and insurance applications. As an OpenGeo reseller, Prodevelop expands its capabilities to offer client solutions a fully-integrated open source geospatial platform.
OpenGeo, known worldwide as a major contributor to open source geospatial technologies, advocates Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) implementations to facilitate commercial solutions and government transparency. The OpenGeo Suite is a complete, OGC standards-compliant web-mapping platform built on cutting-edge open source geospatial components. These interoperable components, including PostGIS, GeoServer, OpenLayers, GeoWebCache, and GeoExt, are developed and maintained by active open source communities. The OpenGeo Suite enables enterprise users to utilize these community software modules as one, coherent and powerful software stack, with the reliability and support of a single, stable vendor.
“Our partnership with OpenGeo will enable us to provide powerful open source web mapping technologies to our clients,” said Miguel Montesinos, CTO at Prodevelop, adding, “This partnership allows us satisfy the demands of technical support on open source through an stable vendor for our clients.”
Local clients in Spain will work with Prodevelop as a first-line of OpenGeo Suite support, with Prodevelop interfacing with OpenGeo as a second line of support when necessary. Upon announcing the partnership, Chris Holmes, OpenGeo president, noted, "We are very happy to be working with Prodevelop, as they add expertise and local support for OpenGeo Suite users in Spain, and in the Spanish-language."
About OpenGeo
OpenGeo is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology. The company brings the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web. OpenGeo also supports open source communities by employing key developers of PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenLayers. the company has provided successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, Ordnance Survey Great Britain, Portland TriMet, MassGIS, Landgate, and the Federal Communications Commission. OpenGeo is the geospatial division of OpenPlans, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that informs and engages communities through journalism and open source software. All of OpenGeo's revenue has been and will continue to be re-invested into innovative and useful software in support of the OpenPlans mission.
About Prodevelop
Prodevelop is an ITC SME created in 1993, specialized in various advanced technologies related to software modelling and geospatial technologies (navigation, mobility and sensor solutions). Prodevelop started to use open source software in the solutions they offered and the success of this initiative lead to a more in depth study of business models based on open source; involvement in development communities and the diffusion of multi-disciplinary projects based on open source software. With more than 16 years GIS experience, Prodevelop focuses on the research and development of base solutions for mobile, desktop and Web environments especially in the world of free and open-source software, collaborating with other developers groups in the world.