is a Romanian software company specialised in web development. Most of our work is open source and that’s the way we like it. Scroll down to find out more about us.
The Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology is managing the Digital Agenda for Europe.
Under the contract “Publishing, visualising, linking open data, hosting and broadcasting – SMART 2012/0103”, Eau de Web has developed digital-agenda-data.eu, an interactive visualisation tool for linked semantic statistical data expressed as RDF data cubes.
The EEA is the largest European Commission agency, which aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable info.
Since 2010 we are in charge of the framework contracts for Zope/Plone web development, including EEA’s main website, the European Environment Information and Observation Network and the European Nature Information System.
ENISA is the EU’s response to cyber security issues of the European Union. As such, it is the pace-setter for Information Security in Europe, and a centre of expertise. ENISA’s website is the European hub for exchange of information, best practices and knowledge in the field of Information Security.
We undertake framework contracts for Zope/Plone Web development and hosting for ENISA’s websites.
UNEP is the voice for the environment within the United Nations system.
We build several Web applications for UNEP, from which the InforMEA, a platform that harvests COP decisions, news, events, membership, national focal points and reports from MEAs and the CITES Virtual College, a learning management system containing training courses for CITES Parties.
The World Food Programme is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and the leading provider of school meals.
Since 2018 we have a long-term agreement for software development services (Drupal, Python/Django, front-end development and UX/UI design).
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by most of the nations of Europe.
Since 2020 we provice product design, software development (Drupal), maintenance, integration and support services for two Copernicus websites: Climate Change Service and Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
The International Trade Centre is a multilateral agency which has a joint mandate with the World Trade Organization and the United Nations through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Since 2020 we provide product design, software development (Drupal), maintenance and support and hosting services for ITC Benchmarking solution and portal.
Established in 2006, Eau de Web (www.eaudeweb.ro) is a Romanian company specialized in web development and digital content publishing. The four founders of our company have been actively involved since the beginning in the core business as managers and/or solution architects.
The organizational structure of Eau de Web is simple but efficient, centred around customers, contracts and technologies. Project teams are led by highly qualified senior consultants, having solid experience in both software development and project/people management, or by project managers with solid software development know-how.
Most of our work is open-source and some of our code is re-used by other communities. Our team includes contributors to Drupal and Plone core and add-ons.
The areas covered by Eau de Web’s specialists vary from requirements definition, software architecture and system design, modern user interface design, accessibility and usability audits, development of web-based applications, component and system integration, system and data migration, application management, system maintenance, web hosting, helpdesk and support, training services and materials, all done using Agile practices.
The management’s policy towards professional careers is to maintain a highly collaborative work environment which encourages employees to constantly improve their skills and remain up to date with modern tools and technologies, by means of:
Instead of aiming for a broad range of technologies, we decided to narrow our preferences and focus on high quality and high efficiency in Python (Django, Flask, Plone), PHP (Drupal), HTML5 and JavaScript (Node, Vue, React), Linux and Docker. We have adopted since the beginning an agile delivery model complemented by PMBOK or PM2 project management practices and the use of modern tools, both free and paid, to support the quality assurance and automation. Our tools, knowledge and efficient internal processes allow us to deliver projects faster and using less resources than other vendors, while maintaining high quality standards.
Eau de Web’s know-how and solutions are the result of an extensive international software development experience, comprising of technological platforms for over 20 public EU and UN agencies, used by millions of citizens worldwide.
Eau de Web is ISO 9001:2015 certified for our quality management system and ISO 14001:2015 certified for our environmental management system.
Eau de Web is a paraphrase of eau de parfum, meaning a fragrance of web, close to its essence.
The drives of our activities are the open source culture and the use of open standards in projects worldwide.
For the purpose of applicable data protection legislation (including but not limited to the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the company responsible for your personal data (“Eau de Web SRL”) can be contacted via email at dpo@eaudeweb.ro.
The office is located near Arcul de Triumf, in a quiet neighborhood, some of us even bike to work. There’s a fully equipped kitchen, also an espresso machine with the best italian coffee, and an exquisite selection of teas. We don’t cut corners on office furniture and IT - dual monitors and your choice of linux, windows or mac.
We use any excuse to organize a social evening with poker and board games. The company pays for gym membership and the odd wine party. We go to conferences and regularly order technical books.
Over time we learned to work profesionally. All code is under version control (EEA’s GitHub repository, our github account), we write unit tests, any important change goes through peer code review, and we pair program when it makes sense. Deployment to staging and production is automated, and we have specialized people for testing and system administration. We also have close, long-term relationships with our clients , and we work in small iterations with quick feedback.
Str. Maior Gheorghe Șonțu
No. 8, et. 1
011448 Bucharest
Romania
Eau de Web continues to demonstrate a long-term commitment to share and contribute the knowledge, software and resources to benefit others through Plone’s open source community.
Some of our efforts to evolve and promote Plone include: