Reducing the Cost of IT using Open Source Solutions
Far from being a new and risky approach to reducing the cost of IT Solutions, the Open Source Software initiative has been growing for the last 20 years. Its foundation is the technical cultures that built the Internet and the World Wide Web and the academic research environment. Now the commercial world has woken up to the opportunities provided by licence free software and a worldwide resource pool of development and support technicians.
Underpinning many of the leading Open Source products available are well funded, professionally run and structured organisations like JBoss, the provider of the most widely used application server on the market. To the customer the JBoss solution provides the 'Nirvana' of software products, as it not only offers an ongoing development lifecycle but is also capable of reacting quickly to customer demands for innovation and functional development. This is achieved by simply creating a new business model based upon providing the best product support available and charging for this, rather than an up-front licence fee. By utilising the World Wide Web development community to provide the product development, the organisation can function at a lower cost and provide a professional product for free to those who don't require support. However, 24x7x365 support is available via an SLA driven support agreement for those who need to be sure that their systems are as robust and performant as those from traditional licensed software providers.
As a full services technology company, BSG has valuable experience delivering solutions involving zero cost software licensing for clients across several vertical markets and horizontal applications, including open source content management systems, customer relationship management or web site management and content delivery solutions. The chances are that if you have a project requirement an open source based solution may be a perfectly viable option as a basis for the system. This route then opens up the opportunity for those licence cost savings to be applied more effectively to ensure the solution exactly matches your business' requirements.
Why BSG
Through extensive experience of developing, deploying & operating J2EE applications on a multitude of application server platforms, BSG is in a unique position to advise, guide, and support customers considering a migration to Open Source products, and in particular the development of JBoss based applications, for which BSG is a GOLD standard partner. BSG developers are certified to the most rigorous standards, with BSG having the most highly certified JBoss developers in EMEA.
Advantages of working with BSG on your Open Source development projects include:
1) JBoss migration expertise:
BSG's expertise is based upon a proven analysis and proof-of-concept approach that minimises the risk and costs of the work required, and builds a robust business case for a migration project.
- Migration from Weblogic, Websphere, or ATG to JBoss
- Application architecture design
- Performance tuning and issue resolution
- Skills transfer services/fast start project start-up
2) Specialist JBoss skills:
- JBoss Clustering/Cache
- JBoss Migration services from version 3 to x
- Specialist experience with managing off-shore development teams
- JBPM (Workflow engine)
- Integration with Open CMS
Additionally, BSG's support and hosting services combine with the JBoss support model to offer clients anything from initial training and start-up consultancy services for clients new to the JBoss platform, through to full-lifecycle development, support, and hosting services delivered to exacting service levels.
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