IT service provider 7iSolutions bundles Open Source solutions for UCS

The well-known business solutions Dokuwiki and WordPress are now available in the Univention App Center as 7iApps from 7iSolutions. The applications can be installed with just a few clicks and automatically integrated in UCS’ central user and service management. 7iSolutions is the first provider to bundle existing Open Source solutions for the Univention App Center and make them available to customers there together with a service offer. Work is already under way on the integration of additional applications such as the revision control system Subversion.

Bremen, Zurich, 29th July 2014. 7iSolutions, a Swiss software business solutions company, is the first IT service provider to launch an app range on the Univention marketplace. The 7iApps are already well distributed Open Source solutions, which have been configured to be business ready and integrated in UCS.

The two apps which are already available in the App Center cover two completely different business requirements:

  • “Dokuwiki”, an easy-to-use Wiki solution, can be used for product presentations, to simplify support or for team organisation purposes.
  • “Wordpress” is the most popular content management system in the world for the creation and maintenance of websites, news sections and blogs.
  • “Subversion”, which will be available in the App Center in early August, offers users the chance to use the world’s leading revision control system for the collaboration of project teams and document exchange with UCS.

As such, in addition to UCS components and third-party solutions from other software houses, the Univention App Center now also offers widely distributed Open Source solutions bundled especially for UCS. They can be run with certain conditions without any additional programming requirements and complemented with extra on-demand services such as support, training sessions and project-specific adaptations performed by 7iSolutions. The apps can be installed numerous times on one server and as such can be used for a range of different purposes, which is a particularly attractive option for schools, where an individual Wiki can be set up for each classroom, or larger organisations.

The integration of further Open Source business solutions for project management (Redmine, Trac), support tools (PhpMyFAQ, Bugzilla), shops (Spree Commerce) and accounting (Tryton) as 7iApps is already planned.

Michael Hofmann, CEO of 7iSolutions said: “From our perspective, UCS satisfies all the requirements on an operating platform for companies, authorities and educational institutions which wish to operate a professional IT infrastructure, both in terms of its standardisation and its professionalism. The Univention App Center is an ideal marketplace for us to be able to make our business-orientated apps and services available integrated in an identity management system which functions outstandingly.”

And Peter Ganten, CEO of Univention, noted: “Since we introduced the Univention App Center, an ever more rapidly expanding ecosystem of solutions has grown up around and for Univention Corporate Server. This benefits not only our customers, but also partners such as 7iSolutions, which use the App Center as a platform for their own products and services and, as now with WordPress and Dokuwiki, are continually expanding Univention Corporate Server’s spectrum of applications.”

Test version ready for use with just a few clicks of the mouse

If you want to test the new apps, please go to:
https://www.univention.com/download/ucs-download/ and install the free installation image of UCS, before installing Dokuwiki and WordPress from the App Center.

About 7iSolutions
7iSolutions AG is a Swiss company based in Rapperswil offering business customers innovations and new technologies in the field of software business solutions. The services are characterised by their high quality at affordable prices and based on widely distributed Open Source and Internet technologies. Further information can be found at: www.7isolutions.com

About Univention
UCS is a leader supplier of Open Source products for the operation and management of IT infrastructures. The core product is Univention Corporate Server (UCS), a flexible, cost-effective and successful alternative to server solutions from Microsoft. UCS contains comprehensive Active Directory functions and an App Center which allows the integration and operation of enterprise applications.

UCS allows web-based IT management and can be implemented in organisations of any size. The product can be used as a classic server solution, on the cloud or for hybrid IT environments. It can be run as a component of existing Microsoft infrastructures and supports the simple takeover of Microsoft Windows domains.

On the basis of UCS, Univention also offers Univention Corporate Client e(UCC), a management solution for Ubuntu, and UCS@school, a complete system for the operation and management of IT in schools. Univention has a global partner network and well as subsidiaries in Europe and North America.

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