Olliance Group: Clients

Our services and experience spans many industries and includes the assessment, planning and implementation of open source strategy, community development, sales, marketing and business development, IP management and compliance and mergers and acquisitions.

Olliance Group serves the following industry groups:

Open Source Startup Companies

Olliance Group has built a strong reputation in the startup community with dozens of commercial open source and proprietary startup clients, seven of which were named as top 10 open source business models to follow by industry analysts The 451 Group.

Services include sourcing venture funding, IP and technology planning, business model development, sales, marketing and business development planning, and community development.

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Established Product and Service Companies

Olliance has created a wide range of open source business strategies for many of the world's leading OEMs and ISVs and numerous smaller software and hardware vendors. These strategies typically entail use of open source software, release of products or subsystems as open source software, community development or channels and partners development. Olliance has also helped many software companies migrate their business from a pure proprietary model to a hybrid open source business.

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End Users of Open Source

Olliance Group open source consultants work with many organizations that use open source extensively in their operations including large financial institutions, government agencies and consumer and manufacturing companies to help them figure out how to leverage the financial and technological benefits of open source.

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Government

Olliance has worked with a number of domestic and foreign governmental agencies to help them leverage various aspects of open source in mission critical applications.

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Industry Associations

Olliance Group has consulted with the leading open source industry associations around their business and organizational models including The Linux Foundation and the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI).

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Private Equity and Venture Capital

Olliance helps venture capital firms evaluate and assess a startup's technology, competition, business model, and management team. Many of these venture capital firms subsequently engage Olliance to assist their portfolio companies in developing their open source strategies. Key elements include, due diligence, market and competitive analysis, and open source investment strategies.

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