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.”
