OpenCrowd
| Private | |
| Industry |
IT Consulting Systems Integration |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, USA |
Key people |
Bob Howe, Chairman Sushil Prabhu, CEO Shawn Traynor, Head of Design & Engineering Brad Buck, Strategy and Engineering Nadir Jaffer, Emerging Technology Lab |
| Website | OpenCrowd.com |
OpenCrowd is a New York City based privately held design and technology services firm. Implementations cover rich internet applications, social media applications, mobile applications enterprise search, index based applications, and cloud applications.
Founded in 2005, it is headed by Sushil Prabhu as CEO, formerly CTO at Scient, with Bob Howe, founder of IBM’s consulting practice, and former CEO of Scient, serving as its Chairman.
Solutions
OpenCrowd provides three primary solution offerings:
- Collaborative Dashboards - combine traditional dashboards with collaborative features
- Social Applications - applications that promote participation and collaboration
- Cloud Enablement - custom cloud enabled applications and migration of existing applications to the cloud
Products
OpenCrowd has a product DragonGlass that accelerated building of search solutions. Typical uses for DragonGlass include enterprise search, search analytic applications, log analysis, and data discovery. The product includes a number of features that can reduce the time it takes to build these types of applications. Some capabilities include a set of connectors to content stores such as SaaS application and structured data respositories, data mapping tools to create schemas for content, normalizations of content, and a framework for data access and visualization. The product has a set of APIs that developers can use in addition to using administration screens.