These standards are published by the company SMILE, the leading European integrator of open source solutions.

Who is Smile?

Smile is the number one open source integrator in France and Europe. With experts in a wide range of Open source products, components and frameworks, Smile has over twenty years of experience in implementing high-performance platforms, completing turnkey projects and providing tailored expert advice.

Websites, business portals, e-commerce, social networks, mobility, document management, ERP or infrastructure, Smile is at the forefront of open source. Smile surveys competitors, invests in R&D and shares its knowledge through the creating of over 25 white papers, which are a reference for each specialist area they cover.

Smile supports its customers in implementing open source solutions by offering a wide range of services: consulting, ergonomics, graphic design, editorial advice, SEO, development and project management, training, third party application maintenance and open source support and hosting.

In 2012 Smile experienced a 24% increase in turnover, achieving 45.8M Euros. The company employs over 700 employees, in 17 agencies, in 8 countries: Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Marseille, Lille, Grenoble (France), Barcelona, Madrid (Spain), and Kiev (Ukraine), Geneva (Switzerland), Casablanca (Morocco), Amsterdam and Utrecht (Netherlands), Brussels (Belgium) and Abidjan (Ivory Coast).

Find our more: www.smile-oss.com / Follow us on Twitter: @GroupeSmile

Which experts have worked on this support?

To write this white paper, we asked our technical, functional and business experts to build a large repository of best open source solutions. Here are the names of the main contributors

Grégory BECUE

Benoît JACQUEMONT

Maxime BESSON

Patrick KOUASSI

Alexandre NION

Philippe DE OLIVERIA

Frédéric DE GOMBERT

Patrick NERDEN

Thomas CHOPPY

Jean-François BOSSARD

Régis DAMONGEOT

Thibaut DEMARET

Julien BAGARIE

Sébastien GIRAUD

Alain ARDITI

Patrice BERTRAND

Barthélémy VESSEMONT

Eric DRIER DELA FORGE

Guillaume MAISSA

Eric PLAQUEVENT

Allaedine EL BANNA

Jérémy SUBTIL

Marc GIBERT GINESTA

Sylvain TACQUET

Badr CHENTOUF

Hélène ZYSMAN

Philippe BRIERE

Sébastien MAULION

Aurélien LEMAIRE

Aurélien FOUCRET

Marc MAURICE

Sylvain BANNIER

Fabien GASSER

Vincent SPRIT

Nicolas PAILLOUS

Cyril QUINTIN

Michaël BRARD

François-Xavier BONNET

Laury MAGNE

Yanick DELARBRE

Pierre FROUGE

Pierre BARTHELEMY

Cedric DEFORTIS

Agnés FARAL

Simon ROY

Boudjema LARID

Adrien FUTSCHIK

Alexis TRINQUET

Mohand LARABI

Florent BERANGER

Elise BRIET

Pierre-Antoine MARC

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