waarp.submission Submission
Complete name | WAARP (Managed Files Transfer) |
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Submitter's Info | Driss DEMIRAY - CEO |
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Project information | Waarp Platform is an open source project aimed at improving the reliability, security, monitoring and integrability of file transfers in a scalable IT system. It fosters interoperability between file transfer protocols (FTP/FTPS, SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS, AS2/AS3, EBICS/TS). It is composed of multiple related components that can be operated together or independently: |
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Description of the project and its goals | The goal of Waarp is to provide a multi-protocol platform for data exchange. With the help of the community, we want to integrate exchange protocols commonly used in various industries such as Financial, Medical, Retail, etc. The idea is to provide a framework with all transfer capabilities, then, for each use-case, load ad hoc protocols within this framework. Transfer capabilities include: We want to become the must-have MFT offer in the open source world. |
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Web site |
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Targeted audience | Waarp use is intended for companies which must operate with a high volume of secure files exchanges, either internal (inter-application exchanges) or from external partners. Waarp is an open source alternative to proprietary solutions such as CFT AXWAY, IBM STERLING to name the most common solutions. |
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Supporting team | The main contributors to Waarp are:
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Business model / Strategy | The business model is centered on selling professional services. In addition the Waarp company is able to develop bespoke extensions to Waarp in order to centralize all configurations and events for a large installation, so as to facilitate exploitation, monitoring and production. This software is based on Waarp standard API, with no proprietary or backdoor access. We commit to keep Waarp to be a full functional Open Source solution. We offer a comprehensive support with 3 levels of service agreements based on response time and hotfix (Silver, Gold and Premium) up to 24/24 - 7/7. Subscriptions to a support contract entitles our customers to use our ADD-ON, Waarp Manager. The cost of support depends on the average daily volume of files exchanged. |
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User community | Waarp is a market ready solution already deployed within large organisations such as:
Our web site is visited by close to 700 people on average per month. We have an average of nearly 100 downloads per month. |
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Internationalization | Our solutions implement i18n and I10n natively. |
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Roadmap | We wish to quickly add multiple exchange protocols such as: The first two are planned for the end of 2016. |
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Hosting | Our source code is hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/Waarp). Our packaged solutions can also be downloaded from https://dl.waarp.org/ |
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Your project and OW2 | Waarp is a middleware solution to exchange files. Such solution seems to missing from the catalog of OW2 open source solutions. |
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OW2 projects | Looking at the OW2 code base, we believe Waarp to be complementary to projects in the privacy and security area such as LemonLDAP and Fusion Directory. |
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OW2 initiatives | We see three opportunities here:
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Technologies and standards | JAVA, NETTY, EMBER-JS, GO, R66, FTP, HTTP.... |
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Contribution to the OW2 Community | We believe Waarp to be a good contribution to the OW2 code base as a mature product and the only credible open source alternative to proprietary products. |
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Motivations to join the consortium and its community | We appreciate the work done by OW2 to promote its members and its open source solutions on the market. OW2 is aligned with our commitment to providing real open source business solutions. |
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Other Information? |
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License(s) | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Interested Parties |
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Terms and conditions acceptance | I hereby certify the accuracy of the information provided above. |
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Submission date | 31/05/2016 |
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