Software Technology Vision – Provided by the Leaders of the Revolution
"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics
without strategy is the noise before the defeat."
Sun Tzu – The Art of War
Throughout history, knowledge has provided the key to success.
Achieving success in today's business climate requires limitless
access to information and winning experience. Outfitted with a
winning strategy and accurate knowledge of the tasks required to
meet your goals, you've taken the first steps toward differentiating
yourself from your competition.
The Tribal Knowledge Group offers decades of Open Source software
engineering, architecture, sales and strategy expertise. Our
unprecedented think-tank of Internet technology experts stands ready to work in tandem with your organization. Our group's ability to provide a level of clarity around the changing face of the software industry will help differentiate your company's vision from your competitors.
As founders and participants in the Open Source software revolution, we
hold the credentials. We provide a demonstrated
ability to help investors, commercial software vendors and system
integrators to interpret the
implied changes to their businesses. Our focus is in helping your
organization to
participate in the revolution and benefit from these well established
trends in Information Technology.
OUR SERVICES
The Tribal Knowledge Group offers a broad range of deep expertise in the areas outlined below. The consultants that are a part of our group have long established histories within many Open Source development projects as well as demonstrated successes applying those skills to business challenges. Our customers and industry partners provide an excellent cross section of the areas of the software industry and investment community where we are able to add real value. Those areas are further described below.
Architecture and Design Services
Solution designs that leverage open standards to integrate and scale with your product requirements
- When you need to deploy a web-serving framework capable of delivering millions of views and transactions per day...
- When you need to construct complex document and task work-flows that match your organizations' needs...
- When you need to create a world wide streaming network capable of 99.99% uptime...
- When you need to protect your country's sovereignty by avoiding random changes in software licensing that can affect the price of each transaction your citizens make...
- When you need the level of security that only expertise and transparency can provide...
- When you need Single-Sign-On across multiple vendors serving a diverse constituency...
- When you need to reduce your reliance on proprietary software solutions and realize the promise of your existing investments...
Open Source software methodologies have bred some of the true artists in the software development community. With Open Source software requirements typically being driven by extremely demanding environments where the commercial solution often can't move quickly enough to provide an innovative solution, many Open Source software developers have grown to be some of the best software architects in the business.
Those same software architects are available to meet challenges within your own company's software development needs. We bring a level of expertise that is difficult for most engineering organizations to gather. Our understanding of the problems and knowledge of available solutions presented by today's security, communication and scalability challenges is unparalleled in any single software engineering department.
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Product Management Consulting
Experienced product road-map development to enable your organization to benefit from, and participate with, Open Source methodologies
Open Source software offers a number of opportunities to commercial product developers. Many software developers find it difficult to explore these options because they are unaware of the technologies, find the licensing requirements unclear or don't understand the process for getting involved.
Our team has demonstrated experience delivering commercial products that leverage Open Source software. Engaging our group in your Product Management process can help you accomplish your goals while designing to take advantage of some of the following benefits offered by an Open Source aware product road-map.
- Assure interoperability from the use of true Open Standards compliant protocols
- Avoid "recreating the wheel" for common software components
- Reduce your developer resource requirements for commodotized features
- Design APIs that allow the Open Source developer community to extend your product into unforeseen areas
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Software Market Research Services
Providing the G2 on current Open Source projects and their potential impacts on commercial software investments
Team members of the Tribal Knowledge Group have been participants in the Open Source community for nearly two decades. Our contacts within this community and the hands-on experience we have had in building those communities has given us a unique vantage point not found within most research firms and other "Open Source Consultants". Our experiences integrating and replacing other commercial software in the enterprise allow us to give factual information on competition presented by Open Source solutions; objective information on where Open Source falls short; and strategic direction perspective on commerical companies leveraging Open Source or when they are missing the mark.
Take advantage of our published research on hot spots in software technology or schedule a tailored presentation to answer your specific questions.
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Open Source Software Education
Open Source visionaries providing education on the methodologies of this Revolution
Collectively, the Tribal Knowledge Group offers decades of experience in the computing industry and espouses an experienced view of the industry and changes effected by Open Source throughout computing history. We are not a group of individuals that wish to capitalize on an industry trend. Instead, we are all a part of that trend and have many years of experience where we are actually involved in the shaping of the Open Source community and mission.
Therefore, we are highly qualified to present an unbiased and comprehensive education on some of the following topics presented by the Open Source process.
- The History of Open Source software development methodologies
- Licensing models used to distribute Open Source software
- Taxonomy of Open Source software in today's market
- Community dynamics of Open Source development models, How to play
- Commercial application of Open Source technologies
- Measuring Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source solutions
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Pre-sales Support
Teaming with your Sales organization to help them articulate the Open Source value proposition
Our team brings a considerable amount of experience in articulating the value proposition of an Open Source solution as a component of any part of a software sale. We've had the opportunity to present the values of open standard solutions to all levels of the Fortune 1000 community with demonstrated success in delivering the message. We are available to help educate your sales team or participate in meetings with your customer. Choosing an open source solution is not an all-or-nothing decision and we are prepared to help remove the mystery and answer often heard concerns.
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COMPANY PROFILE
TKG provides Professional Services focused on design, development and strategy consulting
services for the web infrastructure. The Tribal Knowledge Group
provides services covering all technologies being developed by
the Apache Software Foundation. This includes technologies being
developed by the XML and Jakarta projects as well as the widely
deployed Apache HTTP server.
The Tribal Knowledge Group helps software vendors
and IT organizations with complex problems like security, authentication,
scalability and the development of innovative solutions, leverage
the benefits of collaboration and Open Source Software.
The Tribal Knowledge Group offers decades of software engineering,
architecture, sales and strategy expertise to savvy technology
businesses that wish to leverage an unprecedented think-tank of
Internet technology know-how. The Tribal Knowledge Group
focuses its efforts
toward guiding start-up and fortune 1000 companies, who are working
to improve product and service offerings, expand their customer
base, establish new business partners or secure growth capital.
COMPANY HISTORY
Randy Terbush, as a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation,
has been credited with having had significant influence on the Internet
and web infrastructure as it exists today.
Prior to founding the Tribal Knowledge Group, Randy founded Covalent
Technologies where he held both CEO and CTO positions.
From his experience growing Covalent to be a recognized leader
in web infrastructure software solutions, Randy brings over 18
years experience working with internetworking software along with
his clear understanding of Internet security and services architecture
and a demonstrated commitment to provide proven and timely solutions
to his customers.
OUR PARTNERS
Within the Tribal Knowledge Group, alliances are a central part
of our strategy to deliver better service and greater value to
our clients and expose our expertise to a broader range of customers.
We seek to form alliances with leading companies and organizations
whose capabilities complement our own, whether by extending or
deepening a service offering, delivering critical expertise for
the implementation of a new technology, or helping us extend our
product offerings to new geographies. Together, we provide our
clients with a wider range of solutions and capabilities, faster
than we – or any other company – could do alone.
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Hewlett Packard
Hewlett Packard Business Partner Program Alliance
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@Semantics
@Semantics is the company specialized in the Semantic Web and the Resource
Description Framework (RDF) platform. Application areas range from near real
time news services, remote sensing, space applications and those related to
more traditional data mining.
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Matlen Silver - Celerity Software Assurance
Celerity Software Assurance specializes in Software Quality
Assurance and Quality Control. Celerity helps its customers
improve the integrity of their software through a complement
of people, implementation methodologies, project management
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