Navica Services

Contact us today to discuss how you can take advantage of Navica's open source services:

Open Source and You: Speaking and Executive Workshop Services

Public Speaking and Workshops

Navica's CEO, Bernard Golden, is one of the most knowledgeable “sources on open source” in the industry today. He has been called an “effective, engaging – and informative” speaker on the topic who can help companies gain insight into the role open source should play in their own future. Find out about current open source trends and how they'll affect your company or organization. Golden is available for speaking engagements and also can present one, two, or four hour companion workshop sessions at conferences and other events.

Custom Corporate Executive Workshops

Golden also can come to your company and work with your senior management team to discuss how open source can improve your organization's specific performance. These Executive Workshops offer the opportunity to work with him directly to explore the opportunities and challenges open source represents for your business, IT infrastructure, and organization.

Open Source for Your Organization: Strategy Services

Open source presents opportunities and challenges for companies. Most IT organizations are focused on commercial software and are not sure how to most effectively use open source products. Navica can help you develop the right strategies for your open source initiatives. Golden personally designs strategy, participates in senior management sessions, and closely oversees Navica consultants on each engagement. Typical strategy service engagements include:

Product Selection

There are over 100,000 open source products available for you to use. How do you select the right ones? Navica can work with you to ensure you make the right choices.

Navica's Product Selection service includes:

• Analysis of requirements – all requirements. Organizations have needs beyond software alone. Training, documentation, and services are all vital.

• Identification of candidate open source products. Navica works with you to identify the right open source products to consider for your software infrastructure.

• Evaluation of products. Using Navica's industry-standard Open Source Maturity Model® assessment methodology, your potential open source products are evaluated to ensure they meet all your requirements, including the ability to be integrated into your existing IT infrastructure.

Open Source Best Practices

Using open source effectively requires new IT skills and processes. The informal processes typical of early open source efforts are insufficient when open source begins to play a key role in your infrastructure. Navica can help ensure you get the most out of your open source efforts by helping you implement open source best practices.

Navica's Open source best practices service addresses:

Organization

• Understand the key differences between open source and proprietary software and why they require new processes and skills.

• Learn how to manage open source products to maximize operational efficiency and effectiveness

• Setting up an Open Source Program Office to implement consistent practices throughout the organization, share organizational learning, and reduce product redundancy

Process

• Apply the Open Source Maturity Model within your organization to ensure you make the right open source product choices

• Identify high-payoff open source opportunities within your organization using Navica's Open Source ROI Decision Tree®

• Modify your current project management processes to address the key differences between open source and proprietary software

Community

• Learn the key differences between software vendors and open source communities

• Understand open source communities and how to work with them

• Prepare your organization to interact and contribute to product communities to raise your open source effectiveness

• Learn how to work with open source companies and service providers to maximize the benefits from your open source implementations

Open Source Organizational Roll-Out

As organizations move beyond their initial experiments with open source, they recognize the need for a strategic approach in their open source efforts. Establishing an open source strategic plan helps ensure you take full advantage of your opportunities.

Navica will work with you to:

• Review your current IT infrastructure and plans to identify high-payoff scenarios using the Navica Open Source ROI Decision Tree.

• Create an implementation plan to use open source products as part of new IT initiatives.

• Develop a concrete migration plan to replace existing products within the IT software infrastructure with appropriate open source alternatives.

• Review IT budget implications of open source use and identify investment opportunities for unused budget.

• Identify new open source skills required within the organization employee population and develop training plan.

For further information on the services Navica offers, please email info@navicasoft.com.