Maestrano is a Cloud technology company that builds integrated marketplaces. Its patented technology provides real time data integration and analytics between third party applications to business clients including listed companies and small and medium sized enterprises. It has headquarters in Sydney, Australia, and offices in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It was founded in 2012, in Sydney.

The company provides a middleware integration layer for cloud/ hybrid/on-premise applications, which allows for access to real-time data between multiple third party systems. This enables synchronization between otherwise incompatible software.

Nex!™ is an App Engine technology that is portable and resource optimized, that relies on Linux Containers ( LXC), a kernel based virtualization technology. Nex!™ features a configuration engine that allows the deployment of multiple kind of stack on its compute infrastructure.

Connec!™ [2] is a globally patented data sharing platform and is a fully event based jRuby application sitting on top of a RedHat jBoss AS7 and backed by NoSQL database MongoDB. The whole infrastructure enables real time processing of million of messages between thousand of applications either hosted on Nex!™ or belonging to external/partner cloud services. Over 50 apps covering any area businesses require (from accounting, finance, Human Resources, customer management to business operations) are currently integrated in the Connec!™ data sharing environment and this includes QuickBooks Online, Xero, MYOB, Ranqx, Eventbrite, etc.

Impac!™ [3] is a business intelligence tool that is able to report synchronised data from Connec!™. It enables users an in-depth view of their entire operations from all their business apps that can cover Accounting, Invoicing, HR ( Human resources), and Sales. One analytics dashboard for all systems that small businesses and startups use instead of many disparate ones for each system. The dashboard can be built out from 60+ widgets that contain charts, graphs, lists, and advanced calculations.

Star!™ [4] is a browser based tutorial engine, and is an extremely flexible JavaScript Guided Tour framework delivering popup based "follow the trail" tutorials to end users. Unlike most tutorial frameworks, Star!™ does not stick statically to the HTML DOM structure. Instead it uses lazy evaluation and smart event listeners to ensure that tutorials never get lost - even on the most dynamic single page applications.

Maestrano provides these services on an adhoc basis, or bundled in an integrated marketplace as a service product that can be plugged with pre-existing solutions software.

• Winner of the International Business Excellence Award [5] in Dubai in the ecommerce category
• NSW iAWARDS [6] winner in the startup and platform categories
• Australia iAWARDS national winner in the startup category
• Australia iAWARDS national merit recipient in the platform and tools category
• Named in the Smart 100 2015 List from Anthill [7]

• Named in the Tech23 list [8]
• MyBusiness Award [9] winner in the Best startup business category
• Winner of the Small Business Member Innovation Award at the FACCI Awards [10]
• NSW iAWARDS winner in the startup category
• Named in the 50 Top Startups The Industry Entrepreneurs (TiE) list [11]
• Finalist of the Innovation Award at CeBIT Australia Award [12]
• Honorable Mention in the Smart 100 2014 List from Anthill [13]

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