Gifts from Red Hat!

One very hectic day ended on a relaxed note as staff at SystemicLogic shared an assortment of gifts from Red Hat as part our ongoing collaboration with them and several other Open Source Software (OSS) companies in the field of research. Hats off to the great work SystemicLogic has done in the realm of OSS in 2008.  Thank you!

Last year was a hive of activity for the Open Source Software (OSS) team. Clients in the banking and insurance sectors were offered wide ranging consulting solutions on OSS. The main consulting focus was placed on articulating to clients the benefits of OSS realisation. Big lessons were learnt, huge opportunities were identified and made available to the clients.

SystemicLogic also conducted extensive research that investigated several issues regarding OSS realisation. One of the research focus areas involved providing strategies for organisations to effectively select and deploy OSS applications from a maze of available OSS packages.

The biggest fit achieved in this area was an in-depth, end-to-end evaluation of the OSS applications for financial services clients. The packages evaluated included application servers, business rules engines, security, business intelligence, portal platforms, IDEs and enterprise content management solutions. These applications were placed under the critical lens of a very comprehensive evaluation model developed by SystemicLogic’s OSS subject matter experts. So far SystemicLogic has looked at application servers and business rules engines.

The diagram below illustrates areas where Alternative Source products have made inroads and examples of some of the popular software.

I will be publishing more articles on open source tools available at various stacks of an enterprise technology landscape. Watch the space!