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Enterprise Consultancy
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A large enterprise consultancy wanted to consider Open Source software based solutions as one of the options going forward. PERI conducted a detailed study of their current use of closed source software, software costs, user needs and long term growth.
Study Goal - Address Following Issues
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  • Reduction in cost of ownership and maintenance (software as well as system/user support costs)
  • Streamline infrastructure support and maintenance, thereby tech support team can offer standard and consistent support
  • Increase productivity and usability of standard applications instead of using expensive proprietary solutions
  • Prevent Vendor Lock in
  • Avoid closed software that has complex, expensive and unnecessary licensing
  • Understand technical, operational and user acceptance issues using Open source solutions
  • Open Source Solutions helping in the growth of the organization
  • Open Source solutions is cost effective, simple and user transparent/independent
  • Study of deploying Open Source Desktops with standard office, email and productivity solutions
  • Use of Secure company wide Instant Messaging
  • Use of Secure email solution and calendar system
  • Company wide inexpensive, simple, secure, automated or manual backup and restoration systems
  • Document retention systems for backups, restoration, public and private documents
  • Identity Management and Security Solutions such as encrypted email, Roaming profiles, SSO etc
  • Applications including web portals using Open Source Solutions
  • If the migration issues need to be addressed?
  • If user re-training issues going to be substantial?
  • Will the tech-support team have significant call volume increase in supporting usability (not technical or functional) issues?
  • Will there be significant cost savings if the organization has already purchased and is locked in licenses (sunk cost)?
  • If Desktop conversions are not possible, can Open Source backend and back office applications benefit the organization?
  • What is the level of training needed for technical and support teams to support Open Source software?
 
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