International network of companies

Zea Partners (ZEA) is an international network of companies involved in the development and business of Plone/Zope and Silva. We deliver content management system (CMS) deployments and manage large Zope-based projects.

The business partnership stresses the client value of working with the creators of award winning open source software. With ZEA, the money returns to the beginning of the value chain, thus delivering durable impact and providing consulting excellence.

As a non-profit, ZEA is focused on the strength of all links in both the value chain and the "values" chain. Customers need a solid value chain of links leading back to the open source developers that create code. Agencies need a healthy "values" chain for software competitiveness and quality, leading back to the open source businesses that launch innovation.

ZEA isn't driven by corporate shareholders as an isolated link in the chain. Instead, ZEA is a “commerce equitable” cooperative of the shared interests in the value and values chains.

ZEA focuses on the following objectives:

1. Integrate the services and skills needed by customers for open source CMS deployments.
   
2. Grow the small businesses that build Zope products, which thus help sustain the products.
   
3. Increase the long-term success of Plone/Zope software.
   

Technologies

• Content management systems (CMS) is a software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents.
• Plone is a content management system that is simple to set up, maintain, and modify. It is designed to be a corporate-ready content management system. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document/Web publishing system, and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.
• Silva is another content management system developed by our dutch partner SME, Infrae
  
• Zope is an application server specializing in content management, intranets, and custom Web applications. It is written in Python and has a large global community of developers and companies.

More information

Zea partners website