about ricston

ricston’s mission is simple: make technology an asset for your business, not a problem. Too many times we have seen other firms recommend solutions that are not appropriate for the specific client’s business or will not take a business’ operations into account in their planning. We work around your business. We strive to make technology integrate seamlessly with your business so your business can grow. As your technology partner, when your business grows ours will grow with you, therefore, we will work hand in hand with you to support your growth.

Our goal is to be the providers of strategies and services that deliver long term commercial benefits, based upon our clients key business requirements. The strategies evolved will be economical, efficient, durable, flexible and allow your organisations to respond rapidly to both market and customer needs.

Ricston is a building an industry technology company providing professional mentoring, consulting, training, technical support, software development and course curriculum development and methodologies to companies and their projects. Ricston brings experience applying advanced Open Source technology to projects. Our clients are firms and government teams interested in moving beyond their limits by working with us.

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News & Events

BIZcon Europe 2010: Harnessing Open Source

We are pleased to announce the European Open Source edition of BIZcon to be hosted 4th and 5th March 2010 in Malta! BIZcon is all about informing business leaders about significant trends and developments in business.  It’s to bring to the forefront how technology in business will impact your organisation and market sector which is critical to your achievement and maintaining leadership for your business and shareholders. More…

We don’t just do conferences – here are a few of the services we offer and technologies we work with that can help you and your organisation succeed and excel in the challenging environment we all work in nowadays:


Mentor Program

Our specialists can help you enjoy the benefits of Open Source Software without the risks. We can provide you with mentoring to work with your team to implement and deploy your project while effecting knowledge transfer in the process. Assure your projects of success and let us bring your team up to speed on the technologies you can use to help your organisation grow and thrive in todays competitive and challenging marketplace. Click here to learn how Ricston’s Mentor Program can help you implement effective real-world solutions using Open Source software within tight budgets.


Services for Android – Intalio – LifeRay – Mule – OpenIAM

We offer professional services – consulting, mentoring, training – and software development for Android, Intalio, LifeRay, Mule and OpenIAM. We are flexible to fit in with your needs, your team and your projects; we price our services to be affordable and competitive; but above all we nurture a team of motivated and talented consultants and engineers to assure you of success beyond your expectations in any service you engage us to deliver. Click here to learn more!


Dev corner: Android CRM client using Mule as a proxy

Alan Cassar demonstrates how to build an Android client to a back-end service using Mule as a proxy to streamline bandwidth utilisation, provide flexibility in connecting to back-end services and limit overhead on the client. Click here to view the screencast.


Dev corner: Building solutions using Intalio and Mule together

Stephen Fenech demonstrates how to automate processes using Intalio and Mule.  This demonstration is in two parts and shows the flexibility of Intalio working with Mule. Click here to view the screencast.


Open Source Identity and Access Management Solutions

Providing unique solutions for security in Open Source, OpenIAM is the only vendor with a platform that enables organizations to deploy a comprehensive Identity and Access management solution based on a professional open source model. Click here to read more about what OpenIAM has to offer.


Deliver your courses online!

We are now offering our virtual classroom hosting facilities as a service. Use our expertise to widen your training portfolio by tapping into the eLearning industry. We provide the expertise, virtual classroom environment, convert your course materials and prepare your trainer to deliver. Click here for more details!



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