With over 160,000 open source projects registered on Sourceforge.net plus projects on various proprietary exchanges and ISV specific forges, it is difficult for IT executives, and almost impossible for business executives, to sort the wheat from the chaff. ERP Minds' Open Source Center of Excellence (OSCOE) combs the open source universe identifying enterprise-ready open source software that fits within our supported solution disciplines. It is the role of the OSCOE to build its knowledgebase, consolidating fact-based opinion as it relates to communities, software interoperability, compatibility, usability, functionality and available support.

In addition to ongoing open source research, the OSCOE will support your project team throughout your project life-cycle and after deployment. The OSCOE strives to standardize the execution and implementation of open source software. The OSCOE is the source of documentation, guidance, shared best practices and metrics for each project team.

The OSCOE was established with the primary objective to:

Become an open source project authority
Improve legacy and proprietary integration with open source software
Impact usability and architecture decisions among project teams
Increase overall user adoption
Share best practices for our customers' benefit