October 19th 2007
OpenSoft has embraced the Business Intelligence aspect of the open source offerings and sees this platform as a key integration part to it's existing BPMS platform (Intalio), Portal, ESB and ECM offerings.
Strategically, OpenSoft has embraced all the key parts of the Enterprise to provide a full service offering of all the needs of the Enterprise for large and small to medium buinesses. The value that commercial open source platforms provides outside of the competitive pricing aspects , is the vendor independance and true interoperability aspects of the total solutions offerings OpenSoft can bring to any organisation.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Opensoft ticks the box in Perth Australia
October 19th 2007
Opensoft Australia has announced a new office in Perth Australia that will assist clients with commercial open source system development. Opensoft Australia was created by Neville Bradbury and has already partnered with leading open source platforms such as BI, BPM, ECM, Portals, ESB.
The Perth office will enable has been created to provide the professional services and support required in the above open source platforms
Opensoft Australia has announced a new office in Perth Australia that will assist clients with commercial open source system development. Opensoft Australia was created by Neville Bradbury and has already partnered with leading open source platforms such as BI, BPM, ECM, Portals, ESB.
The Perth office will enable has been created to provide the professional services and support required in the above open source platforms
Intalio BPMS Value Proposition
Organizations looking to implement BPMS, Intalio BPMS platform offers the Community Edition to be used for free, while it does not provide the source code for this, never the less it is a complete BPMS platform, not just the designer.
Based on the open source BPEL engine, workflow extensions, and BPMN modeler, Community Edition is a complete J2EE BPMS, including a full Eclipse-based BPMN process designer supporting data mapping and simulation, a rule engine, ESB using Mule,Servicemix, Celtix platforms, multiple integration adapters, metadata repository, and a full Business Activity Module (BAM) suite.
The free full BPMS platform offered under the community addition runs on Geronimo, the Apache open source app server and the MySQL database.
Unlike competitive free offerings like Oracle BPEL Manager, not only is the development environment free but so is the production environment.
The Intalio suite includes some third party components like BAM. Normally, customers have had to go to the major vendors with six-figure license fees using the traditional software business model built up by these vendors.
Intalio (and its partners) stay in business by offering fee-based support (similar to the Linux model), in the range of three to eight thousand dollars per CPU per year for most of the Community Edition.
From what Opensoft has heard around business and government bodies, that most CFO’s are finally glad to hear there is an alternative, that does not cost the earth and the source code is available across the community rather than in the hands of and has fully demonstrated the Enterprise strength and reliability of the Intalio BPMS platform to handle millions of process transations daily with little or no downtime in the system.
Opensoft has had several interviews with key business and organisations, with the feeling that while the price is right, business and organisation need to make sure that their mission-critical process is not at risk using an open source BPMS offering.
Intalio offers the Enterprise Edition, which allows the BPMS to run on any J2EE app server and DBMS as well as LDAP and ERP system connectivity. Enterprise Edition is not free but it is also not costly.
The real benefit is once you have all your processes running , stable and change management with the community edition (i.e. running millions of transaction processes a day), if you need to move to the Enterprise edition you can prove the payback is real. It’s basically a services not software license upgrade. The BPM solution doesn’t change.
It’s not even a port; you just redeploy files from the Geronimo environment to WebSphere or BEA,Jboss and that is all. So you have real-time execution of your POC or production ready process models already running without a glitch.
Those companies that are looking for a complete BPMS – modeling and simulation, BPEL engine, human workflow, business rules, ESB, integration adapters, metadata repository, and BAM, Portal, Identity access management should look at the total offerings that Intalio has.
Based on the open source BPEL engine, workflow extensions, and BPMN modeler, Community Edition is a complete J2EE BPMS, including a full Eclipse-based BPMN process designer supporting data mapping and simulation, a rule engine, ESB using Mule,Servicemix, Celtix platforms, multiple integration adapters, metadata repository, and a full Business Activity Module (BAM) suite.
The free full BPMS platform offered under the community addition runs on Geronimo, the Apache open source app server and the MySQL database.
Unlike competitive free offerings like Oracle BPEL Manager, not only is the development environment free but so is the production environment.
The Intalio suite includes some third party components like BAM. Normally, customers have had to go to the major vendors with six-figure license fees using the traditional software business model built up by these vendors.
Intalio (and its partners) stay in business by offering fee-based support (similar to the Linux model), in the range of three to eight thousand dollars per CPU per year for most of the Community Edition.
From what Opensoft has heard around business and government bodies, that most CFO’s are finally glad to hear there is an alternative, that does not cost the earth and the source code is available across the community rather than in the hands of and has fully demonstrated the Enterprise strength and reliability of the Intalio BPMS platform to handle millions of process transations daily with little or no downtime in the system.
Opensoft has had several interviews with key business and organisations, with the feeling that while the price is right, business and organisation need to make sure that their mission-critical process is not at risk using an open source BPMS offering.
Intalio offers the Enterprise Edition, which allows the BPMS to run on any J2EE app server and DBMS as well as LDAP and ERP system connectivity. Enterprise Edition is not free but it is also not costly.
The real benefit is once you have all your processes running , stable and change management with the community edition (i.e. running millions of transaction processes a day), if you need to move to the Enterprise edition you can prove the payback is real. It’s basically a services not software license upgrade. The BPM solution doesn’t change.
It’s not even a port; you just redeploy files from the Geronimo environment to WebSphere or BEA,Jboss and that is all. So you have real-time execution of your POC or production ready process models already running without a glitch.
Those companies that are looking for a complete BPMS – modeling and simulation, BPEL engine, human workflow, business rules, ESB, integration adapters, metadata repository, and BAM, Portal, Identity access management should look at the total offerings that Intalio has.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Opensoft gets all its ducks in a row
May 22 2007
Opensoft Australia has announced a partnering agreement with world renowned software compliance developer – Black Duck Software.
Black Duck Software offers a suite of products to help companies govern how their software assets are created, managed, and licensed. Black Duck's offerings enable companies that develop software using third party and open source components to catch and resolve intellectual property and compliance issues as they occur during development, instead of in the marketplace.
Software compliance is a major issue facing organisations who may be undertaking due diligence prior to takeovers or mergers. Now Opensoft Australia will be be able to offer the advanced suite of Black Duck compliance packages to its Australasian clients along with the expertise to successfully complete compliance audits regardless of size or complexity.
Opensoft Australia has announced a partnering agreement with world renowned software compliance developer – Black Duck Software.
Black Duck Software offers a suite of products to help companies govern how their software assets are created, managed, and licensed. Black Duck's offerings enable companies that develop software using third party and open source components to catch and resolve intellectual property and compliance issues as they occur during development, instead of in the marketplace.
Software compliance is a major issue facing organisations who may be undertaking due diligence prior to takeovers or mergers. Now Opensoft Australia will be be able to offer the advanced suite of Black Duck compliance packages to its Australasian clients along with the expertise to successfully complete compliance audits regardless of size or complexity.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Opensoft ticks the box in Asia
May 10 2007
Opensoft Australia and Asia’s most dynamic open source solution provider – HighPoint Asia today announced a partnership that will assist clients of both organisations with open source system development throughout Australasia and Asia. Opensoft Australia was created by Neville Bradbury and has already partnered with leading US open source developers and evaluators of secure, high performance operating systems including Groundworks, J Boss and Red Hat.
Founded in 2006, with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, HighPoint Asia is a privately-held company whose mission is to provide offshore outsourcing and consulting to enable organizations to realize increased productivity and greater return on investments.
Opensoft Australia and Asia’s most dynamic open source solution provider – HighPoint Asia today announced a partnership that will assist clients of both organisations with open source system development throughout Australasia and Asia. Opensoft Australia was created by Neville Bradbury and has already partnered with leading US open source developers and evaluators of secure, high performance operating systems including Groundworks, J Boss and Red Hat.
Founded in 2006, with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, HighPoint Asia is a privately-held company whose mission is to provide offshore outsourcing and consulting to enable organizations to realize increased productivity and greater return on investments.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Open source now a reality for Australian business
May 1 2007
A new Australian software design and development company is now making the benefits of of open source software available to Australian business. Opensoft Australia is the creation of Neville Bradbury and has signed agreements with leading international developers and evaluators of secure, high performance operating systems. Already working with Opensoft Australia are the leading US opensource operators, Groundworks, J Boss and Red Hat.
Neville Bradbury said at the launch of Opensoft’s new premises in North Sydney that “the potential of open source software had been recognised by the IT community for many years. Until now the business community had been unable to leverage the cost and efficiency benefits due to a lack of expertise in adapting it to commercial applications”.
The international organisation’s backing Opensoft are recognised world leaders in the open source field and in combination with Opensoft’s highly experienced local team of designers and developers will provide Australian business with the best open source or hybrid open source and retail programming solutions to meet their specific needs.
“ In the IT and general business community today one of the hottest debates in the the design and installation of new or modified systems concerns the development of open sourced based solutions versus commercial off the shelf products” said Mr bradbury. “ For many it is a choice of one or the other – a fixed inflexible attitude that can lead to additional and unwarranted cost in the case of highly expensive and complex licensed software solutions that that contain features that are simply not required by the client” he added.
Opensoft says it does not have a fixed or biased attitude towards software or hardware for that matter. “ We start by understanding the system requirements of our clients and then go about packaging the most cost efficient and operationally sound software solutions” said Mr Bradbury.
These solutions may be based on open source software modified to meet the spec or a hybrid solution using both retail and open source programs tailored to work with or replace existing systems.
Neville Bradbury has wide experience in both Business and IT sectors. Neville has been engaged to provide review, recommend and design processes and solutions across a broad range of companies such as Australian Stock Exchange, CBA, IAG, ING Bank, Optus, Mortgage Choice, Southcorp Wines and major law firms.
A new Australian software design and development company is now making the benefits of of open source software available to Australian business. Opensoft Australia is the creation of Neville Bradbury and has signed agreements with leading international developers and evaluators of secure, high performance operating systems. Already working with Opensoft Australia are the leading US opensource operators, Groundworks, J Boss and Red Hat.
Neville Bradbury said at the launch of Opensoft’s new premises in North Sydney that “the potential of open source software had been recognised by the IT community for many years. Until now the business community had been unable to leverage the cost and efficiency benefits due to a lack of expertise in adapting it to commercial applications”.
The international organisation’s backing Opensoft are recognised world leaders in the open source field and in combination with Opensoft’s highly experienced local team of designers and developers will provide Australian business with the best open source or hybrid open source and retail programming solutions to meet their specific needs.
“ In the IT and general business community today one of the hottest debates in the the design and installation of new or modified systems concerns the development of open sourced based solutions versus commercial off the shelf products” said Mr bradbury. “ For many it is a choice of one or the other – a fixed inflexible attitude that can lead to additional and unwarranted cost in the case of highly expensive and complex licensed software solutions that that contain features that are simply not required by the client” he added.
Opensoft says it does not have a fixed or biased attitude towards software or hardware for that matter. “ We start by understanding the system requirements of our clients and then go about packaging the most cost efficient and operationally sound software solutions” said Mr Bradbury.
These solutions may be based on open source software modified to meet the spec or a hybrid solution using both retail and open source programs tailored to work with or replace existing systems.
Neville Bradbury has wide experience in both Business and IT sectors. Neville has been engaged to provide review, recommend and design processes and solutions across a broad range of companies such as Australian Stock Exchange, CBA, IAG, ING Bank, Optus, Mortgage Choice, Southcorp Wines and major law firms.
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