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Hubstone Services

Open Source Strategy
It is almost inconceivable today that any organisation would have no Open Source technologies within its IT environment. However, many organisations have yet to formally define where open source fits as part of their overall strategy. Even if your strategy is as simple as "we are avoiding Open Source", you need to manage this against a clearly defined policy. Increasingly, vendors of outwardly proprietary software and appliances are integrating Open Source code into their solutions.

We can offer a range of strategy services specifically tailored for your organisation. This includes:

half-day Open Source primer
strategy review
discovery/opportunity studies
strategy development

Open Source Adoption
Adoption can happen at a number of levels and has wide reaching implications. Hubstone has developed a flexible framework that drives best practice methods which support your adoption requirements.

Whatever level your business engages Open Source technologies there are a number of key questions to address, for example:

How do you currently engage products and vendors?
How do you procure a product which is effectively freely available?
What level of involvement does your organisation want in open source?
What is your organisation's appetite for risk in IT?
What do you currently get from your license fee and maintenance agreement from your existing suppliers?

It is important that your organisation approaches adoption in a structured manner as you would any major technology investment. Our framework will ensure that your business is Open Source Ready allowing technologies and services to add value across the enterprise.

Consultancy
We can help your organisation to best leverage technologies and provide consultancy advice in a number of areas. This includes Desktop, Server, Networking, Telephony and Applications

Vision & Value
Where is your technology taking you? What does it mean to your business? How will you shape it going forwards?

Most organisations understand where they want their business to be. All too often though, there is a distinct disconnect between this vision and where their IT is going. We can help you achieve synergy between your IT and business strategies.

Project Management
At Hubstone we have sound practical project and programme management experience. We provide technical project managers who actively seek to add value at every stage of the project lifecycle.