Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced on April 26 2016 the creation of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, a consulting service that helps companies integrate people, methodology, and technology to solve business challenges in an accelerated fashion. As part of an Open Innovation Labs consulting engagement, customers will work collaboratively in a residency-oriented lab environment with Red Hat experts to jumpstart innovation and software development initiatives using open source technology and DevOps methods.
An 8-week consulting residency focused on solving business challenges in an accelerated fashion.
JUMP-START I.T. INNOVATION, THE OPEN SOURCE WAY
Technology has become a powerful way to derive new business value, yet day-to-day demands on IT teams severely deplete the resources needed to innovate. To thrive, organizations need to reverse the equation, so that IT can lead core business innovation.
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs allows cross-functional teams and Red Hat leaders to collaboratively work together and apply a community-powered approach to kick-start solutions, grow expertise on an end-to-end development platform, and create the foundation necessary to accelerate innovation within the enterprise.
DEFINING THE PATH TO INNOVATION
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is an 8-week residency focused on integrating people, methodology, and technology to start to address customers’ business challenges in an accelerated fashion. As part of a Red Hat Open Innovation Labs engagement, customers work alongside Red Hat experts to jump-start innovation and development initiatives using open source technology and proven DevOps approaches.
Through Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, customers can: Innovate anywhere:
We provide a secure cloud environment, so that authorized team members can work together from anywhere at any time, and development can happen on your site, in a Red Hat Open Innovation Labs facility, or virtually.
At the close of a Red Hat Open Innovation Labs residency, customers leave with the skills, tools, and a prototype to continue to innovate. We, alongside the cross-functional team(s), ensure that the feature backlog and transition plan are well understood to ensure continued and sustained success.
THE RED HAT CONSULTING DIFFERENCE
Working directly with Red Hat engineering and support organizations, Red Hat® Consulting teams bring the most advanced skills to deliver solutions using Red Hat products and open standards. With exclusive insight into upcoming features and product roadmaps, nobody is better positioned to align teams, streamline processes, and make enterprise systems and applications work together using open source and proprietary technologies.