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Take immediate advantage of the best of open source with Ideate’s unified, secure, and extensible software framework.

Ideate is purpose-built for orchestrating loosely coupled services, content and process at run-time for truly dynamic business applications.

Ideate fuses web2.0 technology with a modern standards-based framework to deliver next generation eResearch software:

• Extensible Open Source Technology Stack – Ideate brings your enterprise and administrative systems together with a comprehensive bundle of open source software in a loosely-coupled technology stack.
• Service Oriented Framework – The Ideate Framework leverages the stack components with its dynamic workflow engine that binds relevant content and functions at run-time based on context for highly interactive business processes.
• Rich Web 2.0 Business Applications – Ideate includes a full suite of highly-configurable and fully customizable business applications for research, IT, and business management.
• XML database – All user inputs and transactional meta-data are stored in a high performance database that versions all records, and provides audit-history and roll-back control.

A flexible, adaptable and open information architecture for next generation business applications