Partners
Nooku is a collaborative effort driven by the highest-level Joomla! coders, business and non-government agency demand. From this powerful alliance, what emerges is a professional-level addition to the world's most popular open source CMS.
The Nooku story germinated from a seed of an idea created during a conversation between Joomla! lead architect Johan Janssens and government and NGO stakeholders who wanted multi-lingual magic, better than anything that had previously existed.
To this end, the initial concept and execution has been broadened by attracting more interest and partners who similarly needed a comprehensive solution to improve their scalability, administrator experience and, of course, deliver a multi-lingual powerhouse.
Our partners thus far fall into two categories — supporters and integrators. Our supporters include the United Nations and Belgian Police. Partners who will leverage commercially, using Nooku in Joomla! 1.5 multi-lingual deployments are our first certified integrators.
The Belgian Local Police has part funded Nooku development to allow it to provide localised content in three languages.
"The Belgian Local Police is organised in 196 police zones. We represent a group of 40.000 police-officers. Each zone has its own website created by Joomla! As a Belgian public service we need to be (by law) trilingual (Dutch, French and German)."
- Marc Alen Commissioner of Police
The United Nations Regional Information Centre provides information and documentation to the countries of the region. Its information outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint projects and events are organized with key partners, including governments, the media, NGOs, educational institutions and local authorities.
A common UNRIC website is operational in 13 languages of the region: Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Nederlands (Dutch/Flemish), Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Each language site gives information about the most important current UN-related events, activities and observances, as well as UNRIC and UN family programmes in the region.
"If you are thinking multi-language; Nooku is a must have! Without it we couldn't even think to migrate to Joomla 1.5 As our website needs to drive 13 different languages. People who will use it won't believe the features and it's perfect integration with Joomla. For us this made a giant step forward to improve our web presence. It's just brilliant!"
- Phillipe Chabot, ICT Coordinator, UNRIC
delius has extensive experience in building complex, multilingual Joomla! sites. In addition to its CMS work, they deliver web-based applications based on open source solutions in fields such as CRM and online payment processing. delius works with companies and non-profit organisations.
"We like Joomla!. We’re able to do what we need to do, and do it elegantly, with a lot of reuse. From a business perspective, that’s a strong plus. Smart development team, great community, open-minded and eager to learn from other projects. We wanted to give something back to the Joomla! community. We make money by doing projects with Joomla!. The community is a source of advice, learning, sympathy. This is our way of saying ’thanks’."
- Paul Delbar, Delius
CRBM aim is to offer you the best available service, while ensuring a great and cost-effective solution, affordable for every organisation. CRBM offers their customers a wide range of software as services: Unified Communication & Delivery, Data & Storage, CMS and e-Commerce, CRM & Business Management Software.
"We saw that there's a need for such a multi-lingual extension for Joomla!, for us internally as well as for our customers and the whole community. We wanted the team at Joomlatools to create a stunning application and to create more business opportunities for everyone."
- André Grüter, CRBM
Dutch Open Projects is one of the larger Open Source Development Companies in the Netherlands with an emphasis on Joomla! Implementations. As a Joomla! implementation expert we have been serviced a respectable number of larger multinational companies to implement their websites with the Joomla! platform. Beside this expertise our customers also benefit from our knowledge and provision of secure hosting of Joomla! and other Open Source applications.
"We believe the Nooku initiative will provide Joomla! with state of the art multilingual functionality which will mature the platform and meet our customers needs. More in general we believe this initiative is a perfect example of how Open Source Development can be stimulated and brings the overall maturity level of a very popular CMS to the next level."
- Jurgen F Smit, Dutch Open Source Projects
Webcreatives builds and hosts open source CMS based websites. Their main work is done based on Joomla!, including design, templating, implementation, hosting, training, custom development, SEO and consultancy.
"More and more of our clients are running multi-language websites. We feel Nooku is the best solution for this purpose and decided to support the development of Nooku."
- Rene Kreijveld, Webcreatives
Web-Translations, a transatlantic translation group, intends to leverage Nooku in the highly-competitive website translation space.
Web-Translations provides web services and professional language translation services. With a network exceeding 25,000 linguists and developers worldwide, we are experts at creating virtual teams to work on a variety of projects in 140 languages.
"Nooku makes the management of a multilingual website much easier, but the task of translating the content remains. By integrating Nooku with Web-Translation's Pay-As-You-Go service users have the perfect solution to maintaining multilingual websites."
- Daniel Rajkumar, Managing Director Web-Translations
McNolia, McNolia, a Dutch company active since 1998, is a market leader in e-business application development and integration, servicing clients with marketingand technology solutions. Through multidisciplinary teams, McNolia creates innovative solutions for its national and international corporate clients by uniquely combining high tech expertise and open source products.
- Wiard Gorter, Director, McNolia
Marvelic Engine Co., Ltd. founded in 2004 , we aimed to share our knowledge and extend business capacity by providing “Open Source CMS” solution, web development service and CMS training. Now, we had added the services as E-Market place application and courses as Joomla mastering workshop to serve the various needs of the customer.
"Nooku is a convenient to work with multi-language website tool able to be fully supported for our customer requirements. Moreover, we think Nooku is becoming stronger with more and more features. For this reason, we decided to support Nooku.”
- Pisan Chueachatchai – Project Manager Marvellic Engine
Fohlin Media AB design and build websites for companies and organizations. Fohlin is located in the island Gotland in Sweden, a well-known tourist destination with visitors from all around the world.
"Our customers in the tourist industry all need multilingual websites. Joomla is the best open source solution out there, but one big issue has been the lack of (good) multilingual solutions. We are glad that the Nooku project set off and gave us the possibility to be a part of this important step for the Joomla community".
- Fredric Fohlin, CEO, Fohlin Media AB
JohnsonDiversey is a leading global provider of commercial cleaning and hygiene products and solutions for food safety, food and beverage hygiene, floor care, housekeeping, laundry, hand hygiene and industrial cleaning. Additionally, we offer a wide range of value-added services, including safety and application training, consulting, and hygiene auditing.
With sales in 160 countries, we serve institutional and industrial end-users such as food service providers, lodging establishments, food and beverage processing plants, building service contractors, retail outlets and health-care facilities.
"Global Communications Services is a department set up to create on and off-line media to support our training and marketing needs on a worldwide basis, and are planning to use Nooku to facilitate this knowledge sharing."
-- Nik Crosina, Advanced Multimedia Developer, JohnsonDiversey
Dioscouri Design is a boutique, Manhattan-based design firm specializing in PHP and MySQL, with a particular emphasis on the open source PHP package, Joomla! Dioscouri aims to create useful, intuitive software for its community of users, as well as productive websites for its clients, while providing a high level of personalized attention and customer support.
"Nooku is the most forward-looking multi-lingual solution for Joomla! We develop components ourselves and are interested in the funded-project model that Nooku typifies as a method for our own future developments. We are extremely pleased."
- Rafael Diaz-Tushman, President and CEO, Dioscouri Design
Masterhompage is one of Switzerland's best known internet agencies specialised in Joomla. Most services they provide use Joomla. Besides web development, they offer Joomla courses and seminars as well as hosting.
"We are always striving for the best solution for our customers. We were instantly convinced of the Nooku project. The fact that this product was co-engineered by the Joomla! 1.5 principal architect, its user-friendly administration, and the fast server load led us to the decision to support this project and use it for our customers."
- Florian Schär, CEO, Masterhomepage
Sword ciboodle is an international provider of customer oriented business software and services. Our award-winning, process-managed CRM software helps improve the way large organisations interact with their customers, and to ensure that we do the same with our own clients, we decided to invest in a multi-lingual website. "With no existing Joomla! extension that fitted the project requirements, initially the mutli-language transformation appeared to be a very daunting task. Nooku, however, has made this transition a relatively painless process and allowed us to upgrade to Joomla! 1.5 in the same time it would have taken us to implement any other multi-lingual solution."
- Graeme Forrest, Senior Web Developer, Sword ciboodle
2value BV is a local services supplier in The Netherlands which specializes in complex value added IcT projects with Open Source Software solutions. To accomplish that, 2value makes use of a huge network of ICT professionals ("2Value associates"), all specialized in different ICT fields.
I-Brix is a small Dutch-based firm that combines interaction design, technical development and common sense to create a product which exceeds client expectations.
Jamii is dutch corporation, a group of company's with a broad experience who build and hosts open source CMS based websites. We mainly work with Joomla!, our services include consultancy, implementation, service, hosting, training, design, templating, custom development, and SEO.
"More and more of our clients ask us for true multi-language websites. We tried the rest and found the best. We feel Nooku is the best solution, its professionally developed and supported."
- Ruud Van Zuidam, Jamii
PINcoding Web & ICT Solutions offers custom made web services. Our web development department has a lot of experience with Joomla solutions. We have delivered over hundred Joomla integrations for small to big companies.
"Nooku is the perfect solution for multilingual websites, either on the development side or the end-user side. It perfectly matches our needs and our client their requirements."
- Paul Hofmans, PINcoding
BEDRE reklame is a full-service Norwegian advertising agency. BR provides, among other things, web development services primarily related to the Joomla CMS and the Nooku Framework. This includes everything from custom extensions development, templating and webhosting, to SEO, training, consultancy and end-user support.
"We have always kept an eye on Nooku Content, but it was not until the release of the Nooku Framework that we got a peek under the hood. The Nooku Framework gives us a very high quality toolbox of programming patterns and sets a new Joomla standard for best practices. It speeds up our development a lot, it improves code quality and it leverages so much more of the possibilities in PHP. It's hard to imagine how we ever managed without it."
- Frank L. Jensen, BEDRE reklame
Italian
Institute of Technology (IIT) is a foundation established jointly by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and the Ministry of Economy and Finance to promote excellence in basic and applied research and to contribute to the economic development of Italy. The primary goals of the IIT are the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge as well as the strengthening of Italy's technological competitiveness.
"To achieve our goals, the IIT cooperates with both academic institutions and private organizations, fostering through these partnerships scientific development, technological advances and training in high technology. Nooku is an highly innovative solution that helps us to achieve those goals and more."
- Nick Dring, Italian
Institute of Technology (IIT)
Unilever global CPG company, has 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products. No other company touches so many people's lives in so many different ways like Unilever globally whose mission is to add Vitality to life by meeting everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people look good, feel good and get more out of life.
"Nooku will be used as part of our multilingual website strategy for our consumer facing brand websites. Joomla is a great Open Source solution that will now be even better with the addition of Nooku. Unilever will benefit from the collaboration enabled by the partner program, as well as the access to expertise on Nooku."
- Stephan Debelle, Unilever
Partner Testimonials
"With Nooku we can finally offer a very user friendly, logical and complete solution to implement multi-lingual Joomla websites in a very effective and efficient way both for our customers and for us."