KRAKEN LEVERAGES THE POWER AND FLEXIBILITY OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE TO EMPOWER SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH
If your business is operating on a fixed IT budget, contact us today. We can maximize your IT budget and help you lower your licensing costs. Open source doesn’t have to be complicated. Let us take care of the complex part for you so you can focus on your customers. We’re here to help your business grow–not to sell you on vendor contracts. Contact us today to find out how we can add value to your IT budget with open source.
OPEN SOURCE CAN BE COMPLICATED, BUT IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE
When many people think of open source, they often picture a young person in a dark colored hoodie, sitting in a dark room, feverishly typing complex and often dubious code into a computer console. Despite the stereotypes, many open source software projects are created by teams of highly motivated individuals, often times by the same individuals who created an equivalent commercial offering at one time. Open source software also powers some of the oldest and largest companies in existence. The benefits of using open source are clear to these organizations–low or no license fees, no complex contracts to negotiate, and often times, superior stability and fast security patches compared to equivalent commercial offerings. There can also be drawbacks, such as daunting installation procedures that involve learning how to install dependencies that a commercial product would install alongside the main software and very little, if any commercial support. Complicating things is the sheer number of open source packages available, which can be daunting for users who aren’t familiar with the feature sets of different offerings. Kraken breaks down these technical barriers and simplifies the process of implementing open source, taking care of these complex procedures for you.
LEVERAGING THE POWER OF OPEN SOURCE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
With commercial software, one or two companies typically dominate the market for an entire business sector. Products such as Adobe Photoshop, Intuit QuickBooks, and Microsoft Office have always commanded a fairly steep price tag since they were first commercially released. However, these companies have recently shifted their flagship product lines to a Software as a Service business model that turns what might otherwise be a bulky, one-time purchase into a smaller, recurring expense that you pay every month like a utility bill. As you can imagine, if you’re using multiple SaaS packages, you could be spending thousands a year just on software for your business.
Open source offers a low- or no-cost alternative to SaaS. Obviously, programs like GnuCash are no match for feature-rich accounting platforms like QuickBooks, which were developed through decades of market research. But it also doesn’t mean you have to spend a fortune on subscriptions to suites like Office 365 when near-equivalent open source alternatives exist. If your small business self-hosts its website, migrating away from Windows Server with IIS and Microsoft SQL can literally save you thousands in the long run. Kraken understands the importance of having the right software for the right use case.
Kraken can help your business to leverage the power and flexibility of open source for your business. We can take care of the migrations and we will support all of your important office software. Plus, our SLA means that you won’t be left in the dark whenever something needs our attention.