WHITEBEARSOLUTIONS GENUINELY OPEN (WBSgo)

As part of its growth and positioning strategy, the organisation has purchased the Access Control and Management product: SmartLogin. With the incorporation of this solution into its portfolio, together with its Identity Management product, WBSVision, the company offers a Global IAM Suite.
In addition, the organisation has signed strategic partnership agreements with Oracle, Microsoft and Logtrust, among others. In terms of its products, the company is finalising the launch of the new versions: WBSAirback 16, WBSVision 16; as well as the first official release of SmartLogin.

The Enterprise File Sync Module & Share (EFSS) of the WBSAirback-StorageCloud product, receives the recognition as a Best Cloud Solution at the Open Awards 2017. These awards aim to: "Encourage, support, recognise and reward open source projects, and to recognise the most outstanding Open Source initiatives of the year."

During this year WhiteBearSolutions gets the support, both from users and from the jury, receiving the Open Awards 2016 as Best Service/ Solution Provider.
The Awards seek to "recognise companies and administrations that create and promote great solutions with Open Source technologies in Spain".

The company consolidates its presence in Latin America and strengthens its commercial operations in more than 20 countries in the region. In addition, WBSAirback 15 y WBSVision 15 are launched on the market with important new products and improved functionalities. In Spain, during this period, the organisation achieved significant recognition and was awarded important public contracts, competing with specialised companies that represent the most recognised products in the world.

With WBSVision  version 12 release, the platform acquires a new dimension, as it becomes a complete solution for Identity Management. It features the following functionalities: role and profile management with heterogenic repositories provisioning, identity federation based in SAML2 protocol, auditing/reporting and Radius/802.1x authentication, among others.

With the integration to the Technology Alliance Partner VMWare program, WBSgo obtains technical resources and support to homologate its products on virtual format so they can be deployed in VMWare environments. They are also able to develop specific modules through the VMWare native APIs.

With the aim to commercialize WBSAirback in critical mission production environments, the company signs an agreement with Bacula Systems, responsible for Bacula Enterprise Edition development. New advanced features and plugins are added to the platform and an Enterprise technical support in the R&D Bacula Systems department is created in order to respond to medium and big-size companies requirements.

Cibernos, one of the pioneer companies of the ICT in Spain, with over 50 years of experience and more than 1000 employees, becomes WhiteBearSolutions major shareholder. With this integration, bigger commercial capacities are acquired at a logistic and financial level. On the other hand, Cibernos complements its area of solutions, especially those related to security.

After several years of work with organisations from all sectors, the company sets one strategic pillar geared towards the distribution channel. A  channel program  is designed with different  partnership levels  adapted to every market actor (integrators, distributors, Data Centre service providers, Outsourcers…)

After considering the different options on the market, WBSgo decides to bet on Dell OEM Solutions. Dell OEM is a supplier for appliance platforms and offers global technical assistance that allows opening new markets.

 WBSAirback  and  WBSVision  release. The first versions of WBSAirback and WBSVision are released after a year and a half of development, along with the first appliances generation, designed and created in Spain based in VIA technology. Meanwhile, all the procedures, tools and professional team are deployed to be commercialized provide support and deliver our solutions.

Collaboration with NetApp and Overland. Two strategic partnership agreements are signed to complement the storage solutions portfolio. After overcoming an exigent training process and accrediting knowledge for several resources in the delivery department, we obtain a certification as delivery services provider by NetApp.

Bacula Community and OpenLDAP solutions are chosen to develop backup projects and user management, respectively. Additionally, a new area is created to deploy web portals based on Apache Lenya contents manager

The company is founded with the aim to provide system integration services for medium and big-size companies using Open Source solutions and working with technology-leader manufacturers.