Free/Open Source IT Consulting

Today’s businesses need partners who can talk about strategy and technology in the same conversation. At Levementum, we believe true value from technology requires an in-depth understanding of business strategy. Our cross-industry open source consulting services help you craft a vision for your organization and then provide a specific, practical business and technology framework that will make that vision a reality. Our open source consulting competencies spread across business, process, quality and technology consulting.

iCraft offers a wide range of open source consulting and training services based on proven industry best practices and years of open source consulting experience. Levementum's professional services team provides expert training and advice on topics including open source policies, usage, package selection, migration, performance tuning, and clustering.

iCraft's open source consulting services enable enterprises to effectively and efficiently leverage open source software. iCraftgives enterprises the insight, confidence, and control necessary to mitigate the risks of open source while maximizing their return on investment.

Open Source software (OSS) has proven to be safe, scalable and cost-effective choices to many marketable products. The biggest benefit of Open Source is the readily available source code that can be modified at ease to make it work according to specific needs. This allows programs to be tailored specifically to your requirements, without the cost of commencing the product from scratch. The advantages of customizing and creating your own product can be a decisive business advantage for your company above those using packaged products.

In recent years, software development organizations have recognized the potential of open source consulting as a mean to customize and implement cost-effective, high-quality, and secure open source solutions. Open source projects results in better software - as they use the best ideas and implementations from anyone who use it.

iCraft is a leading provider of open source solutions for mission-critical enterprise applications. We offer open source consulting services that help increase the quality, consistency, and efficiency of the open source software. We provide open source consultancy services in following areas:

• Selecting the right product: Helps the client to determine which open source product is suitable to solve a particular business problem. We determine the right product considering various factors, such as client requirements, cost, and technologies.
• Providing knowledge about license policies: Many people know that - the open source software package is free and can be distributed and modified. They do not know about the licenses attached with the open source software package. iCraftprovides consultancy services to make the people understand license policies.
• Customizing the open source product: Helps the clients to customize the existing open source products available in the market. For customization, we add new features on the top of the product and improve existing features.
• Integrating different open source products to develop the best solution: iCraftprovides consultancy services to integrate various existing open source products to solve a particular business problem based on the client requirements

At iCraft we believe that open source software, or free software, components make strong fundamentals for your application.

What is Open Source?

The concept of open source software is simple: software that is distributed under a license that explicitly allows, and typically encourages, programmers to read, fix, extend and redistribute the source code of a product. The end result is better software that uses the best ideas and best implementations from anyone who chooses to participate.

Why is Open Source Better?

Here are just a few of the reasons we think open source is better:

• Quality
• Reduced Risk
• Security
• Flexibility
• Support
• Cost
• Standards

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Are you looking for external help to analyze where Open Sourcecan fit into your organizational development or you require more information to adopt new concepts or you just want to outsource your deployment?

Many times asking for help can be perceived as relinquishing control or the direction of your project. But, it is actually not a sign of weakness but of prudence that tells you that not everyone can be master in every field. We should therefore know when we require the expertise of the concerned professional. It is one of the soundest business decisions you will ever make.

iCraftoffers the expertise in the following services and is always there for you.
We have skilled Open Source / Linux resources for deployment or Linux based development.
We do on-line, off-line assessment of your current infrastructure to guide you to a level of possibleLinux deployment.
We even advice products suitable for your environment & provide pilot project implementation.
We provide on-site, off-site based on our unmatched knowledge base, vast experience & expertise in handling all kind off open source projects.
We provide consultancy for network integration, migration, software implementation, advances system administration support and more...
We do system audits to see robustness, functionality and security of the implementations and assess the system from an outsider/expert viewpoint. Consultancy to deploy solutions on Linux is also a part of our service area.

Besides IT Consultancy Services iCraftoffers Open Source Projects,Network Integration,CRM, Migration & Qmail servicesto the companies requiring these services.

Pilot Projects
We undertake pilot projects for various segments like Govt., NGO's etc before a final roll-out of open source implementations. Pilot projects might be a desktop level, LTSP, server migration OR implementation project.

Fitness Analysis
Our fitness level analysis would help an organization understand how and to what level Open source and Linux will fit into their current IT and working infrastructure, even in a heterogeneous environment.

New Concepts
We undertake the study of new concepts on open source which can be integrated with current infrastructure, like SMS Gateway, VOIP etc.

Assessment/Audits
We have a team of assessors and auditors for open source services incorporated in any organization, in order to understand the level to which these services are being used and whether they require fine tuning for optimum utilization.

ROI/TCO Analysis
We do return on investment (ROI) analysis for open source adoption and provide a budgetary cost of ownership over a period of time on adoption of open source technologies. So, that our client can determine optimum return earned from these technologies.

Technology evaluation
Already installed a server, everything is running smooth......But you sill want your server evaluated to determine any possible enhancement? OR Whether the server is adhering to the latest technology requirement, if there is more which can be added to enhance value?

We analyze the current situation and assist you maximize server utilization to the fullest for optimum value creation.

Security audits As soon as you exposed to internet, security becomes a very major concern & we are sure that you wouldn't be willing to compromise on it. Hence it is very essential to have regular security audits, understand the vulnerabilities and take necessary action.

Following are the security audits we would undertake to give you peace of mind.
Footprint Analysis
Port Scanning
Vulnerability Analysis
Penetration Testing
Securing