Reflab

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Reflab's mission is to help customers and partners to leverage and take full advantage of Zope and Plone techologies, providing excellence in design, development and consulting and professional traning, support and complementary services.

Case Studies

Associations: Demagora - eDemocracy system on Plone (Italy )

Demagora is a decision making system to improve direct democracy with people in your group, school, association, trade union or political party.

Deployed Sites

Camplus (Italy )

Camplus is a network made of residence halls and buildings in Italy, offering accomodation and educational services for university students. The portal camplus.it is the meeting node for the Camplus network: it is built with Plone and it provides a wide range of services to the Camplus guests: quality multimedia contents produced by the Camplus staff; college information; community tools and the new online tutorship service. Online Tutorship was specifically designed by Reflab to promote a real online interaction between Camplus Tutors and their students; web 2.0 solutions are everywhere - calendars, extended profiles, faceted navigation - aiming to improve the sense of identity and to give site members that "Plus" that makes the web experience personal.

Cisem (Italy )

CISEM (Centro per l’Innovazione e Sperimentazione Educativa Milano) is a centre operating in the field of educational research, focusing on high-scool education. Cisem is using Plone to manage the online presence, promote the activities of the centre and improve the information . Plone let the CISEM staff work comfortably with the site contents and share tasks between the research units; other than standars collaboration tools, there are an institutional blog, a wiki and a custom glossary. The skin, simple and pleasantly colorful, is developed by Reflab and designed by Inarea.

Demagora (Italy )

DEMAGORA is a Policy Management System built to facilitate decision-making processes between people in a community or group. DEMAGORA is one of the first portals developed on the Plone 3.x series, widely using Plone3 innovations. It has a web2.0 approach based on the custom Proposals system, developed by Reflab for DEMAGORA and designed with the two demagora project founders. Started up with a public beta, DEMAGORA grew up gathering a watchful community of users and testers and it is now heading for the second version

DettoFraNoi (Italy )

Modern, fresh, attractive design imagined for women. Dettofranoi.it is the online version of the Unilever brand magazine Dettofranoi. While design is primary in this project, the site is also filled with different type of contents, and community features to get a rich and interactive navigation experience. A thorough skinning project permitted to have unusual navigation elements and the proper look for every content area; some custom features were also developed as pdf generation and personalized downloads. Plone provided a robust and secure framework for a high traffic site with many users, visitors and contributors. (Developed with Charisma)

Smanettona (Italy )

Smanettona is a project of integration between multimedia, web and paper publishing, intended for the youngest generation of computer "geeks" ("smanettoni"). The project, aiming to introduce children and teens to the secrets of the computers and the web, is made of a diary, a live cd based on free software ("smanett-OS"), and the web portal Smanettona, which is the online integration and expansion of the diary. The Smanettona portal is built with Plone and it features customs workflow to allow authenticated users to safely interact and contribute to the portal contents, under the guidance of the Smanettona staff and the Smanettona characters. Developed by Reflab with Mediatria and in cooperation with the Free Software Foundation.

Tagetik (Italy )

Tagetik is a software company providing enterprises advanced solutions for Corporate Performance Management (CPM). Founded in a hillside town of Tuscany, Tagetik choosed Plone for its corporate website and the partner community site. Tagetik corporate website was made by Reflab with a special care to the look: site graphical implementation is totally css-based, there is a full integration with flash technologies and a thorough use of Plone portlets to improve content presentation. Tagetik community site is a collaborative intranet/extranet featuring, multilingual contents, social bookmarking, forums and tools for sharing informations between workers and partners.

Union Wallonne des Entreprises (Belgium )

The Union Wallonne des Entreprises (UWE) is the Walloon Federation of business leaders and employers. It provides business information, support and services in the belgian area. The new UWE portal is built on Plone : under a clean site design it provides advanced search function, RSS aggregation and multimedia; it also features special content types to manage the UWE Bases de données, and intranet tools for the associates.