Our Parallax Open Source Edge
Big players such as SAP, IBM, Accenture and the like do not and cannot serve solopreneurs, micro businesses, and small businesses at an attainable price point relative to Parallax Open Source equivalent products, services, and solutions.
Parallax Open Source’s unique IP (intellectual property), coupled with our basis on open source philosophy and technology; makes it almost impossible for other providers to compete on cost of product & service delivery, and client total cost of ownership.
Business Software & Cloud Services Are Broken, Parallax Open Source Provides the Solutions
A basic comparative analysis of Proprietary vs Open Source enterprise software and services - as follows below - demonstrates open source philosophy and technology as a great basis for Parallax Open Source's competitive edge.
Problems with Proprietary Enterprise Software & Cloud Services:
- High purchase and/or licensing costs
- High perpetual maintenance costs
- Complexity and learning curve, compounded by high costs for support
- Dependency on vendors for updates, security, & continuity
- Fundamentally more prone to security flaws and vulnerabilities
- Vendor lock-In Arbitrary restrictions and limitations on systems integration
- Scalability issues from both cost and technical perspectives
- Barrier to small business growth due to inflated costs per additional user licence and/or seat
- Lack and/or limitations to data sovereignty, ownership and privacy
- Innovation constraints / less responsiveness to client wants and needs
Benefits of Parallax Open Source’s Affordable Open Source Enterprise Software & Cloud Products, Services, Support, & Solutions
- Lower costs Great degree of flexibility & control
- Great scope for tailoring and customization to best suit client needs
- High innovation with functions and features developed according to user, client and market wants and needs
- Far better scalability from both cost and technical perspectives
- Seamless unrestricted systems integration
- Community support & resources to empower the client and reduce costs
- True data sovereignty with full unqualified ownership Best privacy & security from the ground up
- Long-term sustainability with no vendor to discontinue products & services, or increase prices beyond affordability
- The ability to take your systems to a new vendor at any time