UK Open Source Support and Open Source Services Company
In a global environment where business is largely driven by technology and is highly competitive, a UK open source company with specialist consulting expertise, like ours can show you:
- How to make radical cost savings in your business and IT;
- How to maximise your business growth and sales using IT the smart way; and
- How to gain the skills to use the open source software to increase your business productivity.
Just few intelligent changes in your technology approach can take you to new heights, quicker than you might think.
The 'old way of doing things'...
The traditional approach to IT is that you:
- buy the hardware
- buy the software
- install and host the hardware and software yourself
- buy a license every time you want to install the software on a new computer
So if you have ten computers, you buy ten software licenses.
Why Free and Open Source software?
Open Source software is an example of how great people can be.
With most Free and Open Source software (also known as FOSS), communities of computer programmers around the world work together to provide software that is:
- free to acquire
- free to use
- free to be changed according to your want or need
- free to distribute
The idea of free, community created software has been around since the 1950s and the results of these community efforts are fantastic. In most traditional areas of commercial software, there are Open Source alternatives meaning that software that people pay for can be replaced with a free alternative.
Can Open Source Software really help you to cut costs?
Open Source software is causing mayhem throughout the software market. According to The Standish Group, open source represents "a real loss of $60 billion in annual revenues to software companies".
Government organisations including schools, local authorities and NHS have saved millions moving to open source.
According to CIO.com, on average:
- Over 50% of businesses were using Open Source in one form or another during 2008.
- In many cases Open Source applications are being considered equally with commercial solutions during procurement processes.
- A large majority of the businesses are using Open Source enterprise applications - The most popular being collaboration, customer relationship (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools.
Who's using it?
- Nearly all of us and we don't even realise it!
- In the majority of cases, every time we use the web, we use Open Source!
- The list of businesses & organisations using Open Source is endless. Here's a few:
- NASA
- Amazon
- PayPal
- Thawte
- Yahoo!
- Morgan Stanley
- Birmingham City Council
- NHS
What we provide
Open Source Consulting
- Analyse and understand your business need and identify the right solution
- Evaluate the risks and the legal aspects related to the solution
- Develop an open source strategy and policy for you business
- Determine the best approach to redesign or customise the open source software
- Guide you in installation and maintenance of the source code
- Provide consultancy regarding package selection, migration and integration
Open Source Services
Technical services such as design, development, configuration and integration of software packages such as:
- Joomla, Drupal and Wordpressopen source CMS software
- osCommerce, Virtuemart and Magento e-commerce solutions
- Apache HTTP server
- Mozilla Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client
- Open source CRM tools such as Sugar CRM
Open Source Support
- Train your users on how best to use the software
- Troubleshoot technical problems
- Provide open source support and helpdesk services
What makes us different?
- We are certified by Accredit UK and an approved supplier for Business Link
- In-house expertise in a range of open source software packages including Web CMS, Blog, CRM and much more
- Experienced in providing open source support and solutions for a range of business challenges
- Strong alliance partenerships with other open source specialists and companies
