There are hundreds of technology solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs). These solutions address the needs of SMBs in almost every industry segment. At the same time, these disparate solutions, often, leave the business users confused for a number of reasons:
- Solutions overlap and gaps
- Open Source solutions have very aggressive (and sometimes unpredictable) release cycles
- Lack of Integration
- Different platforms
- Questions about scalability and reliability
- Questions about regulatory compliance such as SoX, ITIL, SAS 70 and 21CFRII
Project SMB Stack is an attempt to create a info repository to address these questions. SMBstack's mission is - Explain the solution in simple business language and in doing so, establish a framework for solution description.
- Categorize solutions in line with business processes.
- Try address the regulatory compliance issues such as SoX, ITIL and 21 CFR in the backdrop of cloud hosted or SAAS solutions.
- Try make a case that with availability of open source solutions , a small business, can easily build technology based competitive advantage at a reasonable "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)". Such technology based advantage was historically available to only large business houses who had invested a fortune in expensive business solution or home grown proprietary software.
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