<p>Appnovation Technologies began as a Vancouver-based Drupal development shop and has since expanded to provide solutions for mobile, enterprise content management, middleware, and big data, using other open source technologies like: HTML5, Alfresco, MuleSoft, and Hadoop.</p><p>Recently, Appnovation expanded their scope again. They want to show that adopting and integrating open source technologies into IT environments is good for everyone's bottom line as well as good for the future of open source in the enterprise. Through the support of its partners, Acquia, Alfresco, and MuleSoft, Appnovation is fostering this effort with a slew of programs including customer councils and case studies, partner and customer alignment activities, reference architectures, an open source code base, and best practices for integration. All of which are focused on making open source adoption and integration for enterprise level companies, organizations, and government entities an enticing option.</p><p>It's called the Canopy Initiative and one of its development leads is senior developer, Steve Power. I emailed with him about how the project is going and what the integration was like between the two technologies the Canopy Initiative was started with, Drupal and Alfresco.</p><p>Read more in this interview with Steve Power.</p><p><a href="http://opensource.com/business/14/1/interview-steve-power-appnovation">Keep reading...</a></p>