Maestro is a web-based Business Support System (BSS) for the fictional Swift Construction Company (SCC). Maestro provides functionality typically required for a engineering and manufacturing organization, and includes complete operational data for evaluation, presentation and testing. Maestro is an open-source project.
Module-Based
Maestro functionality is provided through modules. Core modules provide basic functionality (e.g. employees, organizations, contacts, projects, activities, and documents). Higher-level functionality is built on top of core modules (e.g. managing projects, product data, manufacturing processes, customer relationships, and issues).
High-level Functionality
Cloud Deployment
Maestro can be deployed in a private or public cloud environment:
- Private-Cloud – users access Maestro over a local area network (LAN or VLAN).
- Public-Cloud – users access Maestro securely over the internet.
In a large scale deployment, a local storage server (for a work-group or geographic region) can be included to improve performance with large documents or files, or to meet regulatory, security or quality requirements.
The SCC
The Swift Construction Company (the SCC) is a fictional high-tech product development, manufacturing and services company. Maestro includes SCC operational data for evaluation, training, testing, and as a starting point for new implementations.
Licensing
Maestro is copyright by its creators, and licensed according to:
- the Maestro application is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License. The BSD license is a business-friendly license that allows proprietary use, and requires only that copyright notices be retained. Developers collaborate and share work to their mutual benefit.
- the SCC data is licensed by the CreativeCommons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. This license promotes development of common documentation and a common demonstration platform for the mutual benefit of the community.