Telecommuting in open source solutions as alternatives to GAFAM: this is what GoFAST recommends in the time of crisis
"This crisis has shown the problems of sovereignty", says Christopher Potter, president and founder of CEO-Vision. It gave birth to the GoFAST collaborative platform, based on Open Source, and whose ambition is to offer a serious European alternative to Office365 / SharePoint, and to a lesser extent to Google Docs / Drive. "We depend on China for our supply of masks. In the digital sector, we have already had alerts with the Cloud Act or Facebook's blackmail on CERN ," he continues.
"We offer French industrial products, but not IT and digital ones," he regrets. “But Europeans have a sword of Damocles over their heads. Open source is known at the technical level, but not by the end user, especially since the mainstream media do not relay it."
"We have collected the best open source bricks, which we have integrated and tested, and we have added the simplest and most functionally powerful user interface as possible. We stand up to Microsoft on a large part of their product. Microsoft sells everything in SaaS in their data centers. GoFAST can be hosted in a sovereign SaaS, that is to say a datacenter in France or in Europe with European capital, not subject to the Cloud Act, or hosted in the customer's datacenter, in an on-premise version."
"GoFAST makes 80% of their turnover in the public sector, which is clearly ahead of the private sector", indicates Christopher Potter, "with directives, texts, circulars, votes in the European Parliament to highlight the 'Open Source'. The advantages, in addition to sovereignty, are also sustainability, reversibility and cost reductions, which are very important", lists the leader.
Open source products put forward by CEO-Vision
The software publisher offers his own solutions, first with GoFAST Digital-Workplace Community to replace the file server and manage documents and tasks. The solution is available for free download to install on premise, at any outsourcer, and on AWS in a few clicks..
Then with Riot Matrix, claiming to replace Teams or Slack. This technology is used by the French State, via their Tchap messaging system, and by Thales (Citadelle). It allows you to centralize all group or two-way discussions, on PC or smartphone and to launch voice / video calls.
OnlyOffice will replace MS Office. It is possible to simultaneously edit and co-edit documents via a web browser. The solution is free on premise, and free for 1 month in SaaS mode.
Finally, the software publisher highlights Bluemind's French collaborative and unified communication solution, compatible with Outlook and Thunderbird, as well as the Jitsi meet web conferencing solution.