Osoco

Introduction

Osoco (Orange Software Consulting) is a software design and development company founded in 2003 and based in Madrid, Spain. We have experience building software for small and medium businesses, and mission-critical applications for large companies, especially using the Java language.

These are our main interests, as depicted by our tag cloud at del.icio.us (made with Wordle):

Activities

Enterprise Application Development

Java Platform EE, object-oriented programming, design patterns, agile methodologies, unit testing, project automation, open source development frameworks...

Web Development and Accessibility

W3C standards (XHTML, CSS, Javascript), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), web accessibility revisions.

Enterprise and telco Application Integration

OSS/J specs, NGOSS framework, EAI, SOA.

Highlighted Projects

• User Registration & Client Area Management System for the leading Spanish online travel agency.
• Lottery Games Framework to build club games based on the national lotteries and bets for an online lottery company.
• Assistive Technologies Catalogue for people with disabilities. The most relevant catalogue in the Spanish language.
• Integration of a catalogue of Spanish assistive technologies into the EASTIN European network.
• OSS/J-based integration between fault management and trouble ticketing systems for a top global telecommunications company.
• Web site and collaborative work group tools development for the Red Local a Favor de los Derechos de la Infancia y la Adolescencia.

Internal Initiatives

• Accescopio: automatic web accessibility observatory.
• Planeta Accesible: weblog and RSS feed aggregator about web accessibility and IT accessibility.
• Accessible non-interactive and heuristics-based CAPTCHA.
• CheckIE: Microsoft Internet Explorer add on aimed at easing web site quality assurance and revision by developers and designers: accessibility, standards compliance, consistency, etc. (this project is no longer maintained).

Main Clients

• Hewlett-Packard España Consulting & Integration
• Ventura24
• Rumbo
• IMSERSO
• CEAPAT
• Sannic Solutions

Contact

Additional Information

Mailing List

Mindfood is our mailing list (in Spanish) about information technologies.

You can subscribe to mindfood by sending a blank email to mindfood-subscribe [at] orange-soft [dot] com.

Awards

• First edition TAW Award for the Red Infancia website as the most accessible web site of an organization.
• 2005 SIDAR Award for the Red Infancia website.

We are what we read

This is a small random sample of books from Osoco's technical library:

Publications

• Instant logging: Harness the power of log4j with Jabber