Open Source Solutions

Adopting Open Source Architectures and Standards

As the value of Open Source Solutions (OSS) continues to increase in difficult economic times, an ever growing number of organizations are leveraging open source solutions to gain financial flexibility and a competitive advantage within their marketplace. Open source solutions provide organizations the opportunity to save time and money by reducing the expensive and time consuming maintenance of proprietary non-standards based systems. Whether a company is looking to migrate to or develop an open source solution, using Amentra as a trusted partner is a surefire way to achieve success.

Amentra's OSS methodology is built upon the Amentra's standard service delivery model combined with an emphasis on lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of clients' technology portfolio while still meeting the client's technical and business requirements. Amentra has proven this approach with many successful implementations within Fortune 500 organizations, federal, state and local organizations.

Leveraging Amentra's Mentoring Model and implementation experience in the areas of legacy modernization and SOA, the financial rewards for implementing technical solutions on open source platforms are second to none. The integration of the client' s project team learning how to design, develop and deploy solutions on open source architecture leads to rapid application development to meet the demands of their customer base.

Like most solutions, Open Source Solutions are not one-size-fits-all and typically include many factors and moving parts that need to be orchestrated. Working with and learning from a trusted partner ensures the right solution is designed for a given problem. Amentra's Mentoring Model is infused into our OSS methodology as an integral part of the knowledge transfer for organizations leveraging open source for the first time. The paradigm shift from proprietary to open source technology can often be a daunting experience. But with the proper planning, supervision and mentoring, the client team can realize the technical functionality in a much more reliable, robust and standards-based environment.

Amentra continues to mentor clients on the value and best practices of open source solutions. As a result, our partnership delivers scalable, reliable, efficient, secure and maintainable open source systems. Some of the major benefits of partnering with Amentra to develop open source solutions include:

Total Cost of Ownership, Maintenance and Technology Lifespan Costs: Decreased financial impact while not sacrificing technical functionality. Clients will save technology implementation lifespan costs with the open source subscription and support model. With the added experience and knowledge provided by an Amentra-lead engagement, organizations are realizing increased cost savings by optimizing both business and IT solutions to operate faster with increased scalability.
Decreased Time to Market: Working with Amentra's Open Source Solutions team allows clients to rapidly decrease the time necessary to design, develop and deploy solutions and capabilities into fully managed and monitored operational environments.
Standards Based: A key benefit provided by open source is that it's based on community driven standards. This not only allows for better interoperability between architectural components, but it also enables the flexibility to choose the ideal implementation and creates a large pool of knowledge in the IT community that organizations can utilize as an extended development team.
Open Source Community Involvement: Amentra's consultants are active developers within the open source community. They participate on open source projects and bring this knowledge and closeness to the open source community to our clients. As a part of Red Hat family, Amentra also has the ability to reach directly into Red Hat product teams to research or discover potential solutions and release schedules.

Services Include:

Open Source Organizational, Architectural, and Readiness Assessment
Application Architecture Design, Development, Implementation and Testing
Proprietary to Open Source Solution Migration
Open Source Enterprise Information Integration (EII), ETL and Data Integration
Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting
Application Monitoring
Open Source Mentoring