A major force to reckon with today is the Open Source movement. As with commercial software, Open Source comes with certain risks that must be managed. But unlike commercial software, Open Source does not automatically come with a vendor who is commercially motivated to manage those risks. These risks may leave a company stranded as they may not get any kind of support and extensibility while using the wrong type of open source software.
Quadwave helps in your Open source initiative (OSI) in multiple stages:
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EVALUATE AND STRATEGIZE
Adapts step-wise evaluation of open source software and the enterprise's existing software. Measuring the maturity of selected open source projects and the enterprise's available skill-set. This is very important so as to not adding additional man-power just to support the initiative, wherever possible. Also, this evaluates the current available software and hardware infrastructure and makes an assessment of which open source software would integrate efficiently, completely and with extensibility to provide the best complete solution to the enterprise. Here, evaluating the right license of the open source software becomes very important.
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PREPARE
Prepares an integrated OSI implementation and custom development plan. Prepares a projected ROI on the entire initiative - rather than focusing on only one software. Prepare hardware, software and resource requirement plans.
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DEVELOP AND INTEGRATE
Quadwave develops the additional components that are required to bridge the gap between the enterprise's requirements and the existing open source. This is done considering the licensing policy applied by the open source software. For example, some of the policies push for sharing the code change made to the original software; this may not go well with an enterprise especially if the code is related to some security. Hence, Quadwave helps plug this risk with good design and development. This phase also integrates the open source software work in an integrated manner to the existing third-party software. Most of the times, this integration is possible if the third-party software allows through APIs, webservices or direct database-level integrations. The integrations could in the form of single sign-on, security and access rights setups, centralized knowledge management, integration to ERP systems and any such kind of integrations.
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DEPLOY AND SUPPORT
Quadwave helps the enterprise to deploy and maintain the solution with any support issues and even enhancements. This helps the enterprise reduce its cost of support immensely as the support costs are usually provided from offshore costs.
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Quadwave addresses:
* Minimizing strategic risks such as security risks, customizing open source to meet your business needs, and evaluating the maturity of a specific open source application.
* Verifying operational risks which include the availability of adequate support and documentation for open source as well as the understanding the process for fixing defects in the code.
* Understanding the legal risks which include copyright and licensing infringement and also managing the risk of combining open source code with the company's own, internally- developed source code.
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