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Recent Olliance blogs:
CEO Interview: Brian Gentile on How to Build a successful Open Source business

The coming merger of Cloud, SaaS and Open Source

Great Year Ahead for Open Source Companies

 

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Calendar of Olliance and key open source events.

 


SHAPING THE FUTURE OF OPEN SOURCE


With eight years experience and over 300 engagements, Olliance Group has developed the reputation as the leading global open source management consulting firm. Founded in 2001, Olliance has completed successful consulting engagements for clients ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises and government entities to venture-backed startups, large ISVs and OEMs, industry trade associations, non-profits, and venture capital firms. Our mission is to help our clients capitalize on the strategic, technological, and financial benefits of open source software.

Olliance's core consulting services include:

Olliance has helped more than 150 companies address the fundamental issues surrounding their open source plans and strategies through our Corporate Strategy Assessment engagement.

For more information, go to a description of the Open Source Strategy services that Olliance offers.
Technology companies have become more aggressive in their pursuit of customers. Many are relying on external relationships to achieve their strategic objectives. Leveraging open source partnering to enhance market position and revenue can be rewarding but can just as easily waste valuable time, effort and money and end in a fruitless pursuit. Olliance Group leverages our broad business network and experience in open source to navigate through the many business and technical complexities which enables successful monetization of a partner ecosystem. If your business development efforts are just starting , in place but stalled, if existing relationships are not meeting expectations, or if you are a traditional software company entering open source we can turn strategy into revenue.

For more information, go directly to the Business Development service overview.
Olliance helps companies build successful and sustainable open source, technical and information communities with a focus on community strategy, planning, implementation, and mentoring and training throughout the process.

For more information, go directly to the Online Community services overview.
More and more companies are looking to open source as a potential solution for their mobile solutions. Olliance has unparalled expertise in mobile solutions. We can also supply resources to jump start the execution of these activities.

For more information, go directly to the Mobile services overview.
Our IP Management consulting services help you evaluate and manage open source software with minimum risk and overhead and assist in selecting licenses to support your business models.

For more information, go to a description of the IP Management services that Olliance offers.
Olliance provides a valuable independent perspective and insight into open source related mergers & acquisitions, facilitating the close of the transaction and development and implementation of integration plans.

For more information, go to a description of the Mergers & Acquisition services that Olliance offers.


Olliance has been instrumental in the evolution and shaping of the commercial open source ecosystem, pioneering many of the business and usage model concepts in use today. Olliance holds a unique position in the open source ecosystem allowing us to provide independent, timely and actionable open source strategies to our clients.

 

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Special offer - We are pleased to offer a free nintey (90) minute strategic open source operations review with Miriam Tuerk, our newest team member and Open Source "CEO In Residence" at Olliance. The operations review will cover any aspect of your sales, marketing, community or product development operations. Please email sales@olliancegroup.com to take advantage of this offer now.

Listen to the recent Olliance Webinar:  “Open Source Governance: Improving Productivity While Lowering Risks”
Recorded: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Click here to playback the webinar.

Andrew Aitken, managing partner of Olliance, identified as one of the industry's most influential people in Mindtouch's 2009 open source best practices research survey.
See the full results posted in the Mindtouch blog

Olliance Group Recruits Open Source CEO Miriam Tuerk to Advise Clients on Open Source Management and Operations

Olliance Group hires industry veteran Thomas Henn to Manage Strategic Planning, Operations, and Venture Outreach


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