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Open Source Platforming is relatively a new term in open source industry. Till now we heard about companies doing integration in softwares like alfresco integration, pentaho customization and many more innovative and problem solving solutions for companies working in different domains. Now as this technology has passed the blockage of being hesitant in adoption, many companies have set up their own in-house IT teams to come up with solution based on this technology. It has many benefits over the properietary based solutions present in the market like in prior one you need not to pay any license cost, source codes are easily available and with corporate world opening their arms for new innovations it becomes fairly easy to implement for IT teams.
However as more and more companies are adopting this approach which they use to solve the business problem or to meet the current business requirement, maintaining the applications and solutions built to solve different problems are becoming a challenging task. As the companies need to create a whole new solution or application for their problem which cannot be met by the current software or application which result in too many softwares in one particular business enviornment. Thus a need of Open Source Platforming is felt by many businesses and by companies like InfoAxon technologies which are working in open source industry since 10 years and have now developed platforms like fusionKM and fusionBI.
When I say Open Source Platforming it means building a mothership of solutions which are built to cater all the current requirement of the business. These platforms provide a single point from where a business can handle all the functions and softwares. The best part of these platforms is that they are built by keeping in mind the future requirement of the business so they need not to look for other solution again.
With the help of Open Source Platforming it becomes much easier for vendor companies to build solution which is more than a technology project and is more aligned with business goals. There are lot of world know projects which are built on this technology like Facebook, twitter etc. these companies never gave exact details of how exactly they utilized open source technology.
So if you are planning to build an open source solution for your company or is looking for vendor for your company than it is advisable to keep Platforming in mind while reaching them as this will not only help you in present but also in future.
