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Executive Summary
Open Source
solutions and services have become a viable alternative to
proprietary technologies over the last few years. Open Source
solutions offer similar or better feature-sets than their
proprietary counter-parts at an economical price.
Open Source
software is usually misconstrued to mean only Linux. In reality,
there are 175,000 active Open Source projects of which Linux is
one, and while Linux aims for the base operating system, many
other solutions cater to much more advanced requirements such as
email, secure file sharing, single sign-on and even VoIP.
As Open Source
solutions penetrate corporate markets the demand for centralized
management and deployment increases.
Open Source
solutions are designed by expert programmers and administrators
for programmers and administrators with in-depth knowledge of
inner workings of Linux.
Clarity is a
server and user identity management solution in one. It is
designed to be able to handle primarily Open Source based
infrastructures. The goal is to bring about the same ease of
management and friendly GUIs as have become common in
proprietary software.
Clarity
manages the entire organization logically and due to its
open-standard approach, it can be easily extended to control any
piece of software, Open Source or otherwise. Clarity would
automatically make the required changes once requested through a
user-friendly GUI.
The product
will drastically reduce the cost, effort and human resource
requirements needed in migration to, deployment and management
of, Linux based solutions and will add enterprise class
management and monitoring to Open Source solutions to make them
viable alternatives to proprietary applications.
The key
benefits of this project are given below:
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The product will
make the
deployment and management of Linux and Open Source Software
(OSS), a cost effective alternative to proprietary IT
solutions, e.g., Microsoft, Oracle etc., easier and cheaper.
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It will
facilitate open-source solution providers to increase their
customer base and provide value-added service to their
current clients by offering their solutions along with
Clarity.
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It will
develop a team of qualified Open Source personnel to deploy
and manage the Open Source Software
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Establishments such as Hospitals, Manufacturing Companies,
Financial and educational institutions will have a coherent
management suite, along with security and reliability.
For project details, please visit
http://www.emergen.biz/about/clarity/.
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