CHICAGO INNOVATION AWARDS

Cohesive Flexible Technologies.

Cohesive Flexible Technologies company offers crowd-sourced software in a new and innovative way. Much as Dell revolutionized build-to-order PCs, Cohesive Flexible Technologies has done the same with software. In other words, you choose an platform and then order whatever extra programs you want on top of it, CFT builds it for you, and then you download it directly from the website. Their tech breakthrough is software that builds a base image of a server and reformats it into a chosen virtualization configuration without first building a physical server. Its customers are businesses, not individuals, and it often configures the custom software on a cloud computer where it does the assigned tasks. Their "Elastic Server Platform" is a online service for custom configuration and assembling of application stacks (Elastic Servers) and making them available in a variety of virtualization-ready formats. It also provides a download directory of the stacks you have built, as well as stacks published by other users. It provides a dashboard view which highlights the most popular components as well as an overall view of community activity. Additionally the platform allows any individual, team or company to be a software component provider through importing their software offerings into the platform. Also, any individual, team or company can distribute or sell their finished servers through Elastic Server Sites which allow their customers to customize and download servers in virtualization and cloud-ready formats.