Integrated Open Source Solutions

"Cost-Effective Quality Service" Integrated Open Source Solutions is a corporation managed by professionals that have many years of experience in the Business and Information Technology industry. We specialize in building custom made and cost efficient solutions for our clients with the use of Open Source tools and technologies. We aim to help companies that cannot afford expensive commercial software and to help companies whose needs do not fit what is currently available in the market. We take pride in having solution oriented professionals who excel in managing projects, collaborating with project teams, interfacing with clients and deploying technology to build successful solutions for our clients. We provide a complete set of Information Technology services ranging from Requirements Definition, Development, Implementation, to Network and Server Admin services and Maintenance.       For inquiries, email us at [email protected] Tel No:[phone] | Address: 1052 EDSA Building Magallanes Village, Makati City Tweets by @iOSSolutions !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Gadget Pilipinas Trusts IOSS

By Giancarlo Viterbo March 27, 2014

I have been working for a reputable insurance company as a Digital Media Solutions company. One of my tasks is to create web, social media and digital solutions for our internal and external customers. Such tasks require me to get in touch with IT developers to create viable and spend-worthy applications.

One of the companies that we have been working with is Integrated Open Source Solutions (IOSS), a corporation managed by IT professionals that have many years in the business and information technology industry.

I happened to meet its president, Mr. Joe Gene Quesada, a professor at APAC for 13 years and an alumnus of University of Michigan. He shared with me the vision of IOSS. The company envisions to become a self sustaining business as the number one provider of Open Source Solutions in the country, driven by a community of Filipino talents dedicated to world class service. While I believe that IOSS has already reached its vision, the company never stops in providing good service to their clients and in trying to introduce cost-effective solutions for businesses, whether big or small.

The company uses open source software to develop IT solutions/applications. This is the reason why their products aren’t expensive to develop and maintain. They also use cloud services from IBM and Amazon for process and database link and upkeep. Some of their products are the following:

Accounting System

Hospital Information System

Fleet Management and Preventive Maintenance System

Feeding Program Evaluation System

Multi-level Marketing System

Dental Clinic Information System

Electronic Library System

One of the best assets of the company is Ms.Chow Yee, the company’s co-founder and operations and project manager. She has delivered exemplary customer service to our company. Since 2011, Chow has accommodated us with utmost dedication and business precision.

I highly recommend IOSS if you’re handling tasks similar to what I do, and if you’re looking for an IT solutions company. I am not in any way paid by IOSS to post this, but I just thought of sharing this to all of you as I am very much satisfied with the service they render.

If you’re interested, head on to http://ioss.com.ph/ or contact them thru this number [phone].

Original article from GadgetPilipinas.net

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iOSS is privileged to have been part of SoftCon, the first ever formal IT conference event in Manila!

SOFTCON.PH is primarily about two things: positioning and the megatrends. It is designed to bring key players together to discuss where the Philippine software industry is globally in terms of the services it provides, products it creates and the pool of talent it is rich with. It is programmed to be a platform where speakers and delegates can achieve synergy by comparing notes on the adoption of the megatrend technologies in their businesses and by sharing best practices. As these megatrends shake up the ecosystem of software companies that we know of today, SOFTCON.PH arms everyone with the readiness and courage to take on the challenge.

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OpenMRS Summit 2012 attended by iOSS staff

Mr. Arthur Jezreel Cristobal, Team Lead of Custom Solutions, attended the OpenMRS Summit 2012.

http://www.openhealthnews.com/news-clipping/2012-10-11/global-health-it-...

Global Health IT professionals gather at OpenMRS Summit Bradley de Leon | Philippine Information Agency | October 11, 2012 Developers and users of free and open source software for use in health centers around the world have assembled in Silang this week for the sixth annual OpenMRS Implementers Meeting. The event is being held at the Y.C. James Yen Center at the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) and is hosted by the National Telehealth Center (NTHC) of the University of Philippines in Manila.

OpenMRS (Medical Record System) is a patient-centric medical record application that records medical interactions between health care providers and patients. It is a flexible technology platform that supports delivery of health care in some of the most challenging environments, and is an ideal tool for delivering IT services to the health sector because its design decisions are based on real needs, and is adaptable to the unique needs of users around the world. Being open source, all processes and software have been made transparent; and knowledge, skills, experiences and failure have been publicly documented.

OpenMRS is now in use on every continent in the world in countries including South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Haiti, India, China, United States, Pakistan, the Philippines, and many other places. This work is supported in part by many international organizations including international and government aid groups, NGOs, as well as for-profit and nonprofit corporations.

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HAPAG-ASA provides critical aid with an IBM solution

Overview

Launched in 2005, the HAPAG-ASA Integrated Nutrition Program provides supplemental feeding for children as well as education and skills training for parents in the Philippines. Aimed at reducing malnutrition rates among children, the program has achieved success with an average monthly weight gain of one to two kilograms per child as well as improved school attendance and performance, and overall health.

Business need: HAPAG-ASA needed a cost-effective solution to automate its evaluation processes and better track progress of children in its feeding program.

Solution:

An assessment tool running on an IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise infrastructure streamlines evaluations without increasing costs.

Benefits:

HAPAG-ASA cut evaluation times by 50 percent by adopting an iOSS solution hosted on an IBM SmartCloud architecture.

Case Study

Launched in 2005, the HAPAG-ASA Integrated Nutrition Program provides supplemental feeding for children as well as education and skills training for parents in the Philippines. Aimed at reducing malnutrition rates among children, the program has achieved success with an average monthly weight gain of one to two kilograms per child as well as improved school attendance and performance, and overall health.

Challenge

As part of its nutrition program, HAPAG-ASA monitors individual progress on a monthly basis, tracking the weight and height of each child to determine whether a child is eligible to graduate from the program or needs further support. The organization also provides biannual program reports to its partners, participating communities, media and donors in the Philippines and abroad.

Running on six-month cycles, the program supports over 100,000 children across 50 parishes, providing each child with one nutrient-dense meal five days per week. To screen and evaluate the children, HAPAG-ASA developed a manual reporting process, requiring its 3,000 volunteers to collect raw data and send it to the HAPAG-ASA home office using a variety of methods, including email, courier and facsimile. HAPAG-ASA employs four program officers, who spent up to six hours per day analyzing data to evaluate the nutritional status of each child. This time- and resource-intensive process often forced the team to assess small samples from each parish, leaving them without a comprehensive picture of the program’s overall progress. Solution

In 2009, HAPAG-ASA turned to IBM Business Partner Integrated Open Source Solutions (iOSS) to help automate its screening, evaluation and reporting process. Based in the Philippines, iOSS develops cost-effective solutions using open source technologies to provide organizations like HAPAG-ASA with alternatives to expensive commercial software. iOSS deployed a customized, Software as a Service (SaaS) evaluation system. Operating on the agile IBM SmartCloud Enterprise infrastructure, the solution gives volunteers remote access to a portal to input raw data, reducing their daily administrative time from hours to minutes, freeing them to provide additional assistance to children and their parents’ feeding and education programs. The IBM SmartCloud Enterprise service’s pay-per-use pricing model allows iOSS to provide the solution at a low monthly subscription, reducing the organization’s operating costs. The scalable, flexible infrastructure allowed iOSS to swiftly deploy the solution in remote locations and focus its time on volunteer training. The automated solution significantly reduced HAPAG-ASA staff’s workload, allowing them to shift their focus from reporting to onsite visits, training and education, and quality checks to maintain the overall health of the program.

“We needed to develop a reliable, cost-effective solution for HAPAG-ASA and the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise platform helped us do that,” explained Joe Gene Quesada, president of iOSS. “We look forward to increased collaboration with IBM and we are paving the way for our clients to take advantage of the IBM SmartCloud infrastructure.”

Benefits

Eliminates manual processes, slashing evaluation times by 50 percent and reducing employee administrative burden Reduces volunteers’ onsite administrative workload by 80 percent with a SaaS-based, self-service portal Cuts monthly operating costs by more than 70 percent versus a traditional hardware infrastructure

IBM products and services that were used in this case study.

Service: IBM SmartCloud Enterprise