Open Source Solutions

As the global economy recovers from the downturn, organizations of all sizes are increasingly following the trend of adopting Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). Open Source is definitely a wise choice on the part of chief executives, because it assures their organizations a fine balance between cost and performance.

Business Challenges

While companies have started reaping the benefits of Open Source, challenges are inherent while adopting it in the mainstream of business:

Choices

In the Open Source Software (OSS) stack that is on the offer, there are many similar kinds of products offering several benefits. It is difficult to ascertain each of the options available in the marketplace and consider which is best for running your business processes smoothly. OSS vendors follow the publish-early-and-publish-often principle, which forces them to release more versions and more features in a short span of time. This makes it difficult to tradeoff between products and its features even if you are trying to evaluate them after consulting reliable roadmaps.

Integration

Organizations would have already invested heavily in IT products and hardware. It might not be easy for executives to get the consent from their top management for adopting Open Source. Moreover, Open Source products should integrate with existing application as well as with other Open Source components. Version conflicts with Open Source and commercial sources are common.

Long-Drawn Adoption Process

Business seeks agility. Adopting OSS into the mainstream of your business is presently a long phase replete with initial hiccups. In the very beginning, the process requires careful evaluation of licenses, cost, and interoperability. Meticulous ground-up evaluation, analyses of the feasibility of integration, and improper implementation methods are just a few among the other associated hitches. Further headaches include installation and proper staff training. Owing to these reasons, realizing articulated economic benefit of Open Source is not an easy and quick process.

Cost of Ownership

The risk associated with adopting OSS is higher when compared to adopting other commercial products. While FLOSS reduces the CAPEX to a certain extend, the OPEX problem still exists. There are products in the market that completely rely on maintenance and support. Selection of Open Source products without careful evaluation of the organization policy and requirements may increase the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Our Open Source Service Offerings

Kumaran provides these services, while simultaneously addressing the challenges mentioned above:

Open Source Consulting

Kumaran Systems offers services for framing concise policy, process for adoption, and maintenance of Open Source products. We also offer product evaluation services of the entire technology stack for application development, architecting services, rapid prototyping, and reference implementations.

Open Source Migration

Migration being the flagship business wing of Kumaran, we offer services in legacy application migration to Open Source technology stack in web or client-server platform. Architecture of migrated application will be 'target neutral', the target here being Open Source.

Open Source ADM and Production Support

Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) by using Open Source tier-two production support is another area in which Kumaran offers full lifecycle services. This includes quality assurance. Kumaran�s ADM expertise includes, but is not limited to, portal-based developments, SOA, workflow systems, scheduling, content management, and data modeling.

Open Source and Custom Product Integration

Kumaran offers services in integrating Open Sources and custom software. This gives protection to your existing investments.