Osoco

Introduction

OSOCO (OSOCO Software Company) 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 EE platform, and other technologies like Groovy and Grails.

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, Groovy and Grails, 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

• BKOOL social network, an online service aimed to promote playing sports through the suitable use of information technologies and Internet. This site has been fully developed using the dynamic language Groovy and the Grails framework.
• 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 (this project is no longer maintained).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
• BKOOL
• IMSERSO
• CEAPAT
• Sannic Solutions

Contact

You can easily access all OSOCO's updated contact data through our .tel domain.

Additional Information

Blogs

Mindfood was born in 2003 as a mailing list in Spanish about information technologies (list archives). Nowadays, the list has been converted into a tumblr blog about technical topics related with our interests.

For messages with less than 140 characters, we use Twitter. You can follow us at @osoco.

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.
• 2009 TAW Awards finalist as the most accessible public web site I for the Assistive Technologies Catalogue.

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 by Ruth Zamorano and Rafael Luque. IBM DeveloperWorks. August 2003.