Olliance worked with JasperSoft in their transition from a proprietary to open source provider of business intelligence solutions. This included working with the Board to optimize the management team, provide recommendations on business model and go-to-market plans and the product roadmap. Today JasperSoft has become the leader in it's category with a significant improvement its customer base and revenue.

Olliance Group worked with OpenLogic to develop their core strategy and service offerings. Through a number of interactive brainstorm sessions with the management team Olliance defined a unique services offering which has been validated with a number of Global 100 customers for OpenLogic.

Olliance worked with the rSmart management team to re-orient the company's business model, define their target market, develop a clear value proposition and messaging, and develop and implement community, channel strategies and sales model. These activities resulted in rSmart adding new high-profile board members, receive additional funding and more than double their revenue in less than 12 months.

Olliance Group was retained by XAware to assess the viability of open source, and assist with their migration from a proprietary model to one incorporating open source as a core component in their service oriented architecture solutions offerings.

Olliance Group delineated the strengths and weaknesses of XAware's current proprietary model and specified actionable items for a move to an open source model. Olliance considered XAware's present situation in comparison to the opportunities and risk of moving to open source and presented XAware with specific go-to-market elements, business model/license recommendations and corporate development requirements. The roadmap included communications, licensing, preparing code releases, distribution, pricing, community development, marketing, support, professional services, channel development, verticals/horizontals considerations and preparing the customer base.

Olliance Group was retained by IBM to help develop a roadmap and financial analysis model for assessing the effectiveness of the Linux value proposition for their ISV partners looking to move their solutions to IBM Linux-based platforms.

Olliance Group specifically identified the go-to-market activities and partner coordination needed for mainstream acceptance of enterprise wide applications (ERP, SCM, PLM, and CRM), specify channel partner support needs, make recommendations for IBM organizational adjustments and develop an ROI tool to help these partners better model the impact of their Linux investments on their businesses. IBM made this tool available to all partners for more than three years allowing numerous ISVs to understand and model the costs and steps of moving their solutions to IBM platforms.

Olliance worked with Intel to identify and qualify open source developer resources designed to help enterprise and ISV developers discover and use open source development tools. The goal was to sort through the hundreds of thousands of open source tools available and highlight those that have the strength, maturity and features available to be deployed in an enterprise environment. The net result is the increase in availability of enterprise-grade open source solutions on Intel platforms.

Olliance Group has worked with Microsoft on a number of projects. One issue Microsoft is facing is the realization that their customers are deploying open source solutions in increasing numbers. To address this Microsoft would like to make their solutions interoperable with as many commercial open source ISVs as possible. Olliance is working with Microsoft to develop a long-term commercial open source ISV recruitment program launched in March of 2007 and continuing today. The outcome has been to make more commercial open source ISVs solutions interoperable with Microsoft's technologies facilitating a better customer experience around the integration of open source and Microsoft solutions.

Olliance Group was retained by NEC to analyze the open source software (OSS) SMB market, focusing in the US and enterprise application opportunities.

Olliance Group identified and highlighted the trends, challenges, and opportunities for successfully selling open source solutions into the SMB US market. By segmenting the SMB market by affinity and history of technology adoption Olliance Group was able to correctly factor distribution needs, platform opportunities, deployment strategies, channel partner requests, emerging trends and best practices. This has allowed NEC to apply their knowledge of the Japanese market with best practices identified by Olliance in the North American market and develop a Japan-SMB strategy for their open source offerings.

Olliance Group conducted business model analysis of potential licensing and IP strategies for a major software product, addressing community acceptance, competitive response and customer adoption.

Olliance Group worked with Open Source Software Institute and the U.S. Navy to conduct a comprehensive review of open source usage and developed a detailed ROI/TCO model for existing deployed Linux systems and open source research applications for a major research division. The resulting analysis documented a return on investment of more than 500% over proprietary systems justifying further deployment of open source applications. Please visit the OSSI web site information and to download the OSSI white paper at www.oss-institute.org.

Olliance Group was retained by the Free Standards Group to assess the awareness of Linux Standards Base (LSB) and to define a three year technology and strategic road map for the widespread adoption of LSB, concurrent with the development of the community ecosystem. The project recommendations correctly detailed the necessary steps to take for the legitimization and acceptance of LSB throughout the ecosystem. Olliance then worked with the LSB leadership team to develop the business model and roadmap that served as the basis for gathering significant new members and funding and which facilitated the organization to become the leading open source industry trade association; The Linux Foundation.

Today, Olliance is still engaged with the Linux Foundation, managing their CIO Council. The CIO Council provides the Linux Foundation and Olliance with unique insights into the issues surrounding Linux from dozens of CIOs from leading enterprises