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First steps

Check your eligibility. Our assistance can be for any type of small or medium sized business in any sector, but, within a defined range of post codes. Follow this link to check if your post code qualifies.

If you find your business is located within the Core or Transitional Objective 2 Area – that's the first step towards you qualifying, so please contact: info@openadvantage.org and we'll be in touch to discuss the next steps.

Why are we free?

OpenAdvantage is financed through the regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands which is part financed by the European Community: the European Regional Development Fund.
We're a project of Birmingham City University and our focus of impartial expert help to the private & public sector, reinforces the strong links the University has with the commercial world.

How can we add value to your business?

We'll help you to maximise the potential and use of a wide range of Open Source software. You'll certainly be enlightened to it's technical and business benefits. Our collection of Case Studies demonstrates the breadth of solutions.

Open Source software is at the heart of innovation and touches on many aspects of IT: from the server to the desktop.

It's been cited that without Open Source software we would not have the Web. And the recent explosion of Web 2.0 technologies have evolved due to the dynamic, robust, scaleable and stable nature of Open Source.

Cost efficient with long term capabilities

All businesses need IT in one form or another, and a key enabler 'Enterprise software' has for a long time been the luxury of large corporations. These corporations have generally had a large budget to pay for licence fees upfront for a complex and expensive set of tools, which are too large for the smaller business.

With the many developments in Open Source software, the small & medium sized business now have access to a wide range of cost efficient and effective business productivity tools, to aid their business growth. Our team will be able to show you how.

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