TMCnet Asterisk Week in Review

Taking a look at what’s been happening recently in the Asterisk space, TMC’s (News - Alert) Anuradha Shukla wrote that global open source software specialist Talend is helping software vendors and SaaS (News - Alert) providers embed enterprise-grade open source integration technologies in their offerings.

The company has announced an expanded OEM Partner Program to this end allowing partners to leverage all components of the Talend Unified Platform.

Talend claims that a set of robust and powerful data management and application integration technologies included in the platform delivers core functionality at a fraction of the cost of custom development.

According to a release, all components of the “Powered by Talend” program are based on the Talend Unified Platform technology.

The new OEM Partner Program components are easy to embed and bundle, and include a comprehensive suite of technologies that can be used either in combination with one another or standalone.

Members of the program can use Big Data, a comprehensive embeddable data management platform, which helps vendors to address the challenges of processing and analyzing complex data.

Ed Silverstein reported that the Open Source Resource Center (OSRC) project has offered Pakistan’s first Asterisk (News - Alert) training program, according to a news report from a government-run news agency.

The program took place in four cities, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan news agency. It was free of charge. Asterisk is free and open source. Asterisk powers IPPBX systems, VoIP gateways, and conference servers. It is used globally by smaller businesses, larger businesses, call centers, carriers and governments, the company said.

In addition, the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) has given training to over 8,900 users, the APP said. The instruction took place via 124 workshops and seminars in Pakistan through the OSRC project.

The PSEB project says open-source software is “security-rich and a more economic alternative to expensive proprietary software,” according to the APP news agency. As part of the training, organizations developed their own open source professionals.

And TMC’s Tammy Wolf noted that for Sangoma Technologies (News - Alert), third time’s a charm as the leading provider of hardware and software components for IP communications systems experienced its highest level of sales revenue ever in its fourth quarter of 2011.

Revenue results show that Sangoma sales for 4Q 2011 ended June 30, 2011 were $3.25 million, up 4 percent from $3.12 million for 3Q 2011. With a 29 percent increase in revenue since the company’s first quarter of 2011, which produced $2.51 million, this is Sangoma’s third quarter to see consistent revenue growth this year.

The company also said that 4Q revenues increased by 6 percent from 3Q 2011 sales and from the same quarter in 2010. However, due to its lackluster revenue performance in 1Q this year, annual revenue for the fiscal year down-sloped 5 percent from 2010, coming in at $11.86 million.

Meanwhile, this quarter’s gross margins of 75 percent edged up 2 percent above 3Q 2011, and 4 percent above that for the quarter ended June 30, 2010.

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