Software of the Month 25+ Free Tools for an Emerging Enterprise From accelerating infrastructure, to building websites, to deploying an ERP and Big Data solutions, SMEs can do all this and much more for free using these nifty tools - Compiled by Sonam Yadav 10 open source tools to accelerate your cloud infrastructure Starting this month, we are discontinuing the DVD, but that doesn’t mean we won’t provide you with our top software picks every month. We realize its importance and will therefore continue to identify the top software from the every month, test it, and carry it in this section. Moreover, to make it even more convenient for our subscribers, we will also be providing digital access to these tools every month. We are sure that you’ll find this new method of distributing our best software picks every month even more convenient than the DVD. Enjoy!

1.V OneCloud 1.6: It is an 6. Traffic Server: Traffic Server OpenNebula distribution optimized is used to manage traffic, and it to work on existing VMware enables session management, vCenter deployments. It deploys authentication, configuration an enterprise-ready OpenNebula management, load balancing, and cloud just in a few minutes where the infrastructure is routing for entire software stacks. managed by already familiar VMware tools. 7. : A web-based open 2. CloudStack: This source datacenter management Apache project offers a and hybrid cloud computing turnkey Infrastructure as a platform that integrates flexibly Service (IaaS) solution. It’s with existing components in used both by public cloud computing vendors and by enterprise data centers. organizations running their own private clouds. 8. : Easy to set up 3. FOSS-Cloud: This multi- for home users, faceted cloud computing Seafile is a file hosting cloud solution includes storage software to store virtualization, cloud files. You can synchronize desktop, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities. It can save files and data with PC and mobile devices easily or use the users up to 40 percent compared to closed-source server’s web interface for managing your data files. virtualization software. 9. SparkleShare: Easy to use 4. eyeOS: A web desktop following cloud storage with git as a the cloud computing concept that storage backend. It is a seeks to enable collaboration and clone and very easy to setup. communication among users. It is SparkleShare creates a special mainly written in PHP, XML, and folder on your computer. JavaScript.7. 10. Pydio: Pydio used to be 5. Globus : An integrated set of called AjaXplorer, it’s very tools that deliver the power and versatility much like ownCloud, but of infrastructure clouds to scientific with nicer UI. It also has users. Nimbus Platform allows you to many plugins that run on combine Nimbus, OpenStack, Amazon, Node.js to allow you add additional features to preview or and other clouds. edit the data.

100 PCQuest MAY 2016 pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] 4 Free Website Builders, eCommerce, and CMS Platforms 1. WordPress: This is one of the most popular CMS 3. PrestaShop: PrestaShop is a great open-source platforms around, with a large number of plug-ins to e-commerce solution. The most impressive thing about enhance functionality. You can create pretty much any kind PrestaShop is its default theme, which is comfortably one of website using WordPress. of the best . 2. Webflow: Webflow lets you create sites across a range 4. Sitecube: Sitecube comes with a range of responsive of devices. It is a simple platform that gives everyone the templates, which claims to be the world’s easiest HTML5 power to build their perfect site across a range of devices. website builder, stands out because of its diverse range Webflow is a web design tool, CMS and hosting platform all of high-quality responsive website templates that can be in one. used absolutely free of cost.

5 Popular Big Data tools for developers 1. Splice Machine: This tool offers the ability to utilize require coding in SQL or writing MapReduce Java functions. standard SQL and can scale out on commodity hardware. 4. Talend: Straight away, one of the key benefits of Talend’s This is a tool for developers that have found that MySQL Open Studio is that it is open source, which means that and Oracle can’t scale to their desired limits. improvements will keep on rolling out as the community 2. MongoDB: MongoDB is also scalable and an open- tweaks the tool. Its tools include products for developing, source documental database that is ideal for developers testing and deploying data management and application who want to have precise control over the final results. integration products. 3. : Pentaho joins data integration and business 5. : Splunk specialises typically in harnessing analytics for visualizing, analyzing and blending Big machine data created from a number of different sources, Data. The data integration tools mean that users do not such as websites, applications, and sensors.

7 Open Source ERP software 1.iDempiere: iDempiere is a full-fledged ERP, with 5. Opentaps: Opentaps packs a powerful reporting everything from invoicing to POS integration to function. It has the expected set of modules that help warehouse management to forecasting. you manage inventory, manufacturing, financials, and purchasing. It also has a feature that helps you analyze all 2. : The software covers all the standard aspects of your business. You can use that information to warehousing, manufacturing, and sales channels. Odoo’s better plan into the future. distinction is that the whole system revolves around a series of apps. The benefit of this system is you don’t 6.Apache OFBiz: Apache OFBiz includes many ERP end up running a bloated system when you could be functions including e-commerce, catalog management, running a slim setup. promotion and pricing management, order management, warehouse management, accounting, manufacturing 3. webERP: webERP is specifically designed to be used management, PoS and other features. and expanded by less technical businesses, with code that’s supposed to be readable and editable more easily. 7.xTuple: xTuple offers a free open source edition It can be accessed from any device that has a browser called available as a licensed product with and a PDF reader. maintenance, support and the option to use it offered from the cloud. The open source edition includes 4. : Openbravo is a web-based ERP based on functionality for accounting, sales, CRM, purchasing, a modular system. Openbravo Community edition is the product definition, inventory and distribution, light free release, offering a stripped down version of the paid manufacturing and the OpenRPT open source report Enterprise and Professional editions. writer. pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] MAY 2016 PCQuest 101 Software of the Month 5 Open Source Business Intelligence Tools 1. Jaspersoft: A commercial open source software visualizations and reports that can be embedded into rich which includes a report designer, a reporting engine, client and Web applications, especially those based on a server repository, report scheduling and mobile Java and Java EE. BI, along with community forums and a wiki 4. RapidMiner: A code-free analytics platform for data for support. mining, machine learning, and predictive analytics. 2. Pentaho: A free community edition business This means you can design your data analysis routines analytics suite, which includes business analytics visually and speed up delivery by eliminating the need to as well as data integration, a report designer and a write code. marketplace of plugins developed by the community to 5. SpagoBI: The only 100 percent open source, complete extend the capabilities of the Pentaho platform. business intelligence suite. Its modular architecture, 3. BIRT: An open source software project that based on open standards, allows easy customization and provides the BIRT technology platform to create data integration into legacy environments.

Top Game Releases of the Month

1. Toy Defense: 2. Lost Lagoon 2 Cursed and 3. Motoracing It’s time to take action! Don’t miss the chance Forgotten Every motocross bike is different, with varying to become a winner and test your courage and Sailing through uncharted waters, a strange island speeds, acceleration and handling power. Finish skills as a military leader at the height of World appears in the distance with what seems to be styling your bike by choosing a radical color War I! Don’t let enemies get to your base. Help bonfires. As you near, a dark shadow beneath the scheme. Now it’s time to rev that engine and Toy Soldiers survive through attacks, protect water suddenly attacks your boat and casts you race! Choose from one of the three gameplay your base from enemy airplanes, tanks, airships into open water. You wake, only to find yourself in options: quick race, career, or the new career. and overcome unexpected traps with the help of a makeshift prison and with a strange tattoo inked A quick race will have you competing against 7 different kinds of weapons. on your arm. other racers.

Disclaimer: All software descriptions have been taken from their respective download sites, and PCQuest does not endorse them in any way whatsoever. Also, while the PCQuest team spends a lot of time in carefully 4. Air Assault 2 5. Dreamscapes 2 Take to the skies again with Air Assault 2, Laura and Tim go to skiing resort hoping identifying, compiling, and the intense sequel to the action hit that to distract Laura from heavy thoughts. thoroughly testing each and every pits you against a determined enemy over There, on the edge of the world, software mentioned here, we the desert, the sea, and a vast industrial misfortune befalls her. Tim goes out of complex. Featuring more than 100 unique the house in a fit of lunacy and falls off are not responsible for any kind enemy units, an exciting storyline, and some the cliff. He did not die but is in a coma. of mal-function or damage they of the most amazing 3D graphics you’ve It is not hard to guess that the fall off the might cause. ever seen, AirStrike 2 will keep you glued to cliff and coma are caused by intrigues of your seat for hours. the Sandman.

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