Open Source BI to the Rescue
[ Source: Actuate ]
October 2009-
Follow the trials of the hero of our story as he uses open source BI to break away from the limitations, high costs and complexity of proprietary software. He saved the day with BIRT and now his company is able to make better decisions and improve productivity. Learn how to become a Business Intelligence hero in your company with this e-book.
Open Source SaaS For Docs: Secure Data Without Vendor Lock-In Using An Open Source Docs Platform
[ Source: Extentech ]
March 2009-
Companies are investigating cloud computing and SaaS offerings as a way to cut IT costs. But most companies will not adopt such solutions for fear of losing control over their data or worse, getting stuck with expensive and endless vendor lock-in. By using open source/open architecture SaaS solutions, you can enjoy the benefits of lowered upfront IT costs, and retain control over your data while mitigating the risks of vendor lock-in.
Linux as a Real-Time Operating System
[ Source: Freescale Semiconductor ]
January 2008-
Linux is rapidly evolving to include more and more features that have explicit value to the embedded developer. Key enhancements include two very high-performance real-time enhancement patches to the Linux kernel, which perform identically for all practical purposes. As a result of this performance, the developer’s choice regarding which should be implemented can be based on independent criteria including the ability to update/modify existing device drivers for compatibility with the real-time implementation, and the availability ....
Comparitive Evaluation Of Open Source Portals - JBOSS, Apache Jetspeed, and Liferay
[ Source: Fulcrum Logic ]
July 2008-
The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate strength and weakness of leading Open Source Portals and provide comparative analysis and recommendation. If you find it difficult to decide and strategize your portal solution for your organization, a new class of open source portal technology products may be the solution you are looking for. This new breed of technology is emerging into the corporate IT world as a viable and cost effective solution to ....
Best practices for SaaS implementation using an Open Source Portal (JBoss)
[ Source: Fulcrum Logic ]
December 2008-
In this white paper, we attempt to explore various design approaches to implement a SAAS application using JBoss as the portal vendor. JBoss Portal is a very popular open source portal offering from Red Hat. It is JSR-168 compliant and provides support for deployment in a clustered environment with high availability.
Bringing IT Operations Management to Open Source & Beyond
[ Source: GroundWork Open Source ]
July 2008-
Download this IDC analyst report to learn how open source solutions can drive more value from the existing deployment of open source tools by providing a common data model, integration platform, and presentation layer for IT organizations moving away from component management to service management.
Open Source Moves to Enterprise
[ Source: GroundWork Open Source ]
July 2008-
Learn about an open source management alternative for the mid-enterprise in Ptak, Noel and Associates’ (PNA) report. PNA has been watching the emerging integrated open source management suite market. A short time ago, solutions were too new to project open source and subscription adoption trends but since then, enterprise solution sales have increased.
Optimizing Application Monitoring
[ Source: GroundWork Open Source ]
July 2008-
Tired of finding out from your customers that you're offline? This white paper explains various methods of application monitoring and a methodology for choosing which ones make sense in your environment.
Dollars and Sense: Lower TCO and Increase ROI Using Ingres Database
[ Source: Ingres ]
December 2008-
Have your capital budgets been cut, but your demands for enterprise caliber solutions have only increased? Do you want to lower your database TCO while maintaining the business critical capability not offered by other open source technology vendors?
Up until now, when it comes to databases, companies have had a choice. They could pay outrageous fees to build applications using proprietary databases. Or, they could use open source tools to save money, but ....
SOA Redefined: Simple. Open. Affordable.
[ Source: JBoss ]
December 2007-
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables enterprises to accelerate business execution while driving higher quality and customer satisfaction. The key to success in business is creating the ability to not only to respond to opportunities and threats, but to identify them as early as possible and drive your vision of your business to a successful delivery of product and service leadership. SOA allows enterprises to do this because it opens up the integration and automation of the ....