Open Solutions Alliance

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I’d like to take the opportunity of a great article that Anthony Gold wrote in the Enterprise Resource Magazine to comment on the role of the Open Solutions Alliance.

This piece, Open Source Solutions: Seek Value Beyond Cost, highlights the advantages of open source solutions – reliability, openness, costs savings – drawing on results from a survey run by Forrester Research for Unisys. Forrester questioned 500 US and European IT decision makers for this survey, which confirms a number of points I have already mentioned in this blog: for CIOs, the freedom to access the source code is more important than potential costs savings, worldwide enterprises are massively adopting open source, and interoperability is a major focus for our technologies.

Anthony, who also maintains a blog, is the vice president and general manager of open source for Unisys. In this quality, he was involved, along with Talend and several open source key players, in the creation of the OSA. The OSA is a non profit organization that promotes the adoption of open source in the enterprise, by improving the interoperability of open source solutions, implementing joint marketing programs, and creating communities that federate users.

One of the goals of the OSA is to define and promote solutions, tools, frameworks and best practices that make it easier to deploy and integrate applications in the enterprise. I would encourage your to visit the OSA web site, where you will find for example case studies from companies deploying open source solutions. The OSA blog contains also a series of posts summarizing the first six months of the consortium, its goals, its achievements, and targets.

Talend is actively involved in several of the OSA projects, including for example the Common Customer View. We also work closely with other open source vendors on solutions interoperability – including JasperSoft, CentricCRM, Adaptive Planning, SugarCRM, etc.

Bertrand

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