Services from Interweft

• Open source and security
  Increase IT security through open source
  
  
• Open source for enterprise deployment
  Understand and deliver the open source opportunity inside your organisation
  
  
• Internal software development
  Leverage open source in your internal software development efforts
  
  
• General IT strategic services
  Aligning IT with organisational goals
  
  
• Open source in the public sector
  Understand the particular advantages that open source provides in public sector deployments
  
  
• Software vendors
  Understand open source and how it can be a part of your winning strategy
  
  

Strategic IT & open source consulting - what's that?

Organisations are continually increasing their strategic dependence on information technology and thus IT has significant impact on overall business strategies, for good and for ill.

There are many options to consider and there are many sources of information, of varying value. It is thus understandable that making strategic IT decisions is a hard task. It is however, a task that must be done - and the decisions regularly reviewed to ensure the directions chosen continue to reinforce the organisation's goals.

Interweft's role is to bring additional knowledge to bear within an organisation, allowing choices to be examined with greater understanding and new opportunities explored.

Open source

Open source software (such as the Linux operating system) has emerged as a new option for organisations implementing new or replacing old infrastructure. This model of software development can offer significant advantages to organisations in areas such as TCO savings and improved security through to improved in-house development.

In part because of the open source model is new and in part because it is so different from traditional software development models, many organisations struggle to understand the opportunities open source presents and have difficulty in integrating open source into their overall IT strategy.

Through its strategic consulting services, Interweft will help your organisation align the IT goals with the organisational goals, picking appropriate technologies. Where appropriate, Interweft will assist you to take advantage of open source, weaving open source technologies into your existing IT infrastructures.

As customers are asking about open source, manufacturers, vendors and suppliers also need to understand open source so that they can provide solutions using open source in response to this need.

Through its services for hardware and software vendors and system integrators, Interweft will help your organisation understand open source and the opportunity it presents in the market place.

Open source is not going to be the entire solution - but it offers significant opportunities to create a competitive edge when woven into your business and IT strategy.

For example, Amazon are saving 25% on their IT costs as a result of their open source deployment and www.whitehouse.gov switched to open source to improve system security.