Research community

Petals Link is an active member of several communities. Among them, the OW2 consortium, in which Gaël Blondelle acts as the Vice-Director.


	Aerospace Valley is a competitiviness cluster, gathering industrials, research centres, education centres. It aims at developing Aeronautics, Space and Embedded Systems industries in Aquitaine and Midi-pyrénées.
	Eclipse open source community members develop a full-fledged development platform. Amongst its components, the Eclipse STP project will provide SOA-oriented development tools.
	INTEROP-VLab coordinates and promotes research on inter-entreprise interoperability, led by nine research clusters spread across Europe and China.
	JCP's mission is to define and improve Java-related specifications, in particular Java Business Integration (JBI).
	NESSI aims at favorize european economical growth through SOA adoption development.
	OASIS is a consortium dedicated to web standards establishment: defining, improving and promoting open standards to create a global information society.
	OW2 is a global open source community, gathering open source users as well as specialized companies. Its members collaborate to develop open source, flexibles and evolutive middleware components.

Innovation

References

The Social Security Central Agency (L'ACOSS) is France's chief agency for collecting social security payments. ACOSS uses Petals ESB as the heart for its infrastructure, to expose data and services to external partners.

Akerys, leader of french real estate rental, chose Petals ESB as a base for its information system.

Almerys, software editor for professionals and health insurance, chooses Petals ESB to integrate SOA capabilities in the next major version of its flaship product.

Cegedim activ, french leader of medical CRM market, uses Petals as a medium for its applications.

The Conseil général de la Gironde chooses Petals for its citizen portal.

DGA and Magellium choose Petals ESB to connect graphics processing chains.

The "Direction Générale de la Modernisation de l'Etat" chooses Petals ESB as core infrastrcuture software for managing data exchange on the "Monservicepublic.fr" webportal.