K2's Free and Open Source Technology For Your Organization

Overview

You could pay $0 for this course!
There are a ton of amazing open-source or free Apps, services, websites available today. Open-source is the philosophy of making the code of applications available freely to the public. Meaning, apps that are free to download and modify to your personal requirements. Anybody can download these Apps and immediately use them for their own projects. Open-source Apps and services are often of the same quality and usability as their proprietary counterparts. This is an opportunity for organizations to save money, better utilize Cloud resources, improve security and mobile access to data. While reducing cost, implementation time and workflow complexity. This course will highlight some of the best open-source or free services available today for desktops and mobile devices. Including Apps and services that organizations have typically paid for in the past. For example, using Open Office instead of Microsoft Word or Excel. Using Mozilla Thunderbird instead of Microsoft Outlook. Or using PDF Creator instead of Adobe Acrobat. It will also discuss open-source projects an organization could use for its main internal systems. For example, using Alfresco for a document management system, or SuiteCRM for a customer relationship management, or WordPress for managing its website. The course will present options for desktop productivity, systems management, accounting, publishing, organization, system administrator and more. Additionally, the course will highlight resources on where participants can find even more useful free tools. Participants are highly recommended to follow along with the presentation with their own devices and try out the various Apps, services and tools presented.

Firms/companies with fewer than 50 staff can be reimbursed up to 100% of the cost of training and firms/companies with 50-100 employees can be reimbursed up to 50% of the cost of training. You must register for the course and apply for reimbursement through the Workforce Training Express Fund website a minimum of three weeks prior to the start of the course to be eligible. The course code for this program is C-15326. To learn more, click here or contact Julia Ekelund at jekelund@masscpas.org.

Preparation

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