Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Suffolk County Council Goes Live with ERPNext to Replace Aging Oracle System
Suffolk County Council has completed its migration to ERPNext, the open-source ERP platform, replacing a heavily customised Oracle…
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QGIS Adopted as Standard GIS Platform Across Seven Welsh Local Authorities
A consortium of seven Welsh councils, including Cardiff, Swansea, and Newport City Councils, has completed a joint migration…
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Northumbrian Water Deploys OpenProject for Capital Programme Management
Northumbrian Water has gone live with OpenProject, the open-source project management platform, to coordinate its five-year £1.8 billion…
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OSGeo Foundation Releases New UK Planning Data Schema for GeoPackage Standard
OSGeo UK has published a community-developed GeoPackage schema designed to align with the Planning Data platform operated by…
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Arup Standardises BIM Workflows on Blender and BlenderBIM Across European Offices
Engineering consultancy Arup has announced a phased rollout of BlenderBIM, the open-source IFC-native BIM authoring tool, across its…
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Nottingham City Council Migrates Revenues System to Apache OFBiz
Nottingham City Council has completed a phased migration of its revenues and benefits processing to an Apache OFBiz-based…
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OpenBIM Alliance Backs IfcOpenShell as Default IFC Toolkit for Public Projects
The OpenBIM Alliance has announced formal endorsement of IfcOpenShell as the recommended open source toolkit for IFC file…
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Planning Inspectorate Trials Open Source Case Management Tool Built on Camunda
The Planning Inspectorate for England and Wales is trialling a new case management system built on the open…
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PostgreSQL Adoption Surges Among UK Architecture Practices Ditching Oracle
A survey by the RIBA Tech Group found that 34 percent of UK architecture practices with more than…
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OSGeo UK Chapter Launches Free GeoServer Training for Council GIS Teams
The UK chapter of OSGeo has launched a free online training programme targeting GIS officers in English district…