OpSource Snags Business Objects

On-demand facilitators OpSource have announced that Business Objects, a business intelligence vendor, has selected OpSource to provide the operational on-demand infrastructure and ongoing services for delivering crystalreports.com, its new on-demand BI product.

OpSource offers an Optimal On-Demand product with what it calls “Success-Based Pricing,” part of its on-demand software enablement, delivery, and services offerings.

Donald MacCormick, vice president of product marketing for BO, says working with OpSource “allows Business Objects to maintain our focus on developing software, rather than maintaining the infrastructure for our on-demand BI products.”

OpSource will provide Business Objects with a 100 percent uptime guarantee, full application management, and 24x7 call center support-all priced on demand. The entire infrastructure is built on OpSource’s OptiTech Services Engine, a patent-pending technology platform that supports rapid integration, deployment and monitoring of on-demand offerings.

Last September OpSource officials announced a partnership with salesforce.com (News - Alert) to ensure partner products for Appforce.

The salesforce.com partner products OpSource works with are targeted to Appforce, the on-demand platform from salesforce.com that enables development and deployment of multiple on-demand applications. It's designed to make customization and integration with salesforce.com easier.

Salesforce.com has approved OpSource's Optimal On-Demand delivery platform as a vehicle for delivering salesforce.com partner applications, meaning that if a company wants to offer applications on Appforce, they'd ask OpSource to help bring them in line with salesforce.com's expectations. Following OpSource's procedures, and that imprimatur, the product moves much more quickly to customers.

Part of the appeal of OpSource is in allowing companies to avoid having to learn an entirely new set of operational disciplines, such as 24x7 systems management, call center operations, hosting and networking, security, disaster recovery, and change management. They'll take care of all that, you focus on your application.

David Sims is contributing editor for TMCnet. For more articles please visit David Sims' columnist page.

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