Busara Core Solutions have won the EACOS Open Source Consulting firm of the year. The award presented during the 2019 EACOS Conference held at USIU in August 2019 affirms the commitment and hard work of Busara towards delivering competitive Open Source support services in the region. Busara Core Solutions have won the EACOS Open Source […]
Africa Legal Network adopts Koha ILS
Busara has implemented Koha ILS for Africa Legal Network – based in Nairobi The implementation of all the system modules took an average on one month and included Training to all the knowledge center staff ALN now joins a growing list of legal firms in Nairobi that have adopted Koha ILS to manage its information […]
Who uses Alfresco ECM?
Academia: Universities, Colleges and Schools including chartered, private and public. Examples: University of Wits – SA, The New York Philharmonic, Havard Business School, and Edmonton Public Schools Government: Ministries, Public Agencies, Public Hospitals, and Cooperatives, Security & Law enforcement, Immigration. Examples: USA Department of Defense DOD, USA Navy, Rwanda – Ministry of Education, Ministry of […]
JKF adopts Koha, Dspace
In 2017, Busara Core Solutions began implementing Alfresco EDMS, Dspace e-repository and Koha ILS for Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (JKF) The training was quite interactive and here are some of the photos
Implementing Koha for EIT – Asmara, Eritrea
Eritrean Institute of Technology (EIT) main campus is located about 20Kms from the Capital of Eritrea Asmara in Mai-Nefhi. Indeed, another name for the institution is Mai-Nefhi College. With over 5000 students, distributed in 3 colleges, the institution is the focal training center for Science and Technology related courses in Eritrea. We arrived in Asmara […]
Why Alfresco ECM Rocks
Alfresco is the solution and alternative for Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECM). While content has been growing tremendously at an average of 100% per annum, growth of content management systems has been slow. With Alfresco, the game has changed. Alfresco offers a comparatively low cost, easy to adopt and easy to use ECM solution for […]
Overcoming Records Management Nightmare
This is an actual image taken at the Kenya judiciary registry. Officials are sorting out job application letters for purposes of shortlisting candidates. It looks messy, but this is just a tip of the iceberg. Records Management in Kenya and the region generally, is a nightmare in both the public sector and private sector. This […]
Who is using Koha
More than 1000 libraries are using Koha, including academic, public, school and special libraries, in Africa, Australia, Canada, USA, France, India and, of course, New Zealand. Along with a committed team of programmers its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology Some Libraries Using Koha ILS AfricaBujumbura – […]
Why Choose Koha ILS
I have been asked many times why many Libraries especially, academic and public, are moving to Koha Integrated Library System. It is difficult to give a clear answer because different libraries have different needs and requirements. However from a general perspective, Koha has many capabilities that make it rock. Originally created in New Zealand by […]
Circumventing EOF Error to Extract Data from Tarball
You have one time or the other compressed your data into an archive for purposes of storage or portability. I do it myself often for purposes of backup. tar.gz is my most popular tarball for this purpose, because it is more compact and in my own opinion easier to handle in Linux environment. You will […]