Who We Are
Open Plus Ltd is an expert strategy, management and systems development company leveraging open-source applications, expert retail sector knowledge and cloud technologies.
We have a strong track record in aiding high growth, high performance retailers selling over the internet and seeking to deploy or enhance their e-commerce and back office support systems including ERP, CRM and Warehouse management.
Our expertise and consultancy spans a broad spectrum of open-source products with proven ability to develop high performance systems and architectures.
System solutions from Open Plus minimise both capital investment and on-going operating costs for retailers.
Open Plus is the organisation to contact if you are a high-growth retailer experiencing the growing pains of expanding e-commerce operations and increasing back-end systems complexity. Whether it's escalating costs, performance and stability issues, platform integration challenges or systems upgrade projects, at Open Plus we can help.
Our recent customers include MedicAnimal Ltd, World of Books and United Utilities Plc.
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Pedigree
The Open Plus team members are passionate about retail and have helped fulfil the potential of many high-growth companies. We know how to design, deliver and manage IT solutions that flex, scale and work in this rapidly changing space.
Open Plus specializes in end-to-end business solutions delivered through best-of-breed software products. Wherever possible we use open-source products to reduce costs, mitigate risks and provide business continuity. The significantly reduced cost benefits of open-source software deliver a faster and greater return for our customers.
Open Plus uses the latest cloud computing technologies to create a ‘pay as you go’ operating model. Cloud computing enables our clients to instantly expand computing resources for peak periods like Christmas shopping and e-mail marketing campaigns. Correspondingly, our clients can instantly reduce computing resources during off-peak or normal trading periods to manage costs. The flexible nature of cloud computing also delivers reliability and scalability to our customers.
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Management Team
Andrew Sykes: CEO
A passionate open source proponent, Andrew Sykes was the first UK adoptee of the flagship open-source Apache ERP platform OFBiz, helping the roll-out of 12 OFBiz implementations among UK FTSE 100 within 3 years as well as two in the USA.
With a background in technical architecture on projects for BAE Systems and Lloyds of London as well as Development Methodology Advisor, borrowing notably from eXtreme Programming and Scrum, for companies such as Reuters Ltd and Netstore Plc, Andrew has assisted many software development teams to realign their implementation strategy around bespoke implementation methodologies more tightly focused on business need, driving productivity and profitability upwards in the process.
Andrew is passionate about the positive impact technology can have on our lives and society and is a family man and father of two.
Myles Chippendale: Lead Technical Analyst
A graduate of Edinburgh and Oxford Universities and winner of the Queen's College Benefactors Prize. Myles co-founded the POEM and Melati open source projects, assisting businesses in the rapid growth of their e-business portfolios during the 1990s before being recruited by Netstore Plc as senior architect and analyst to assist in an aggressive phase of growth by acquisition.
More recently Myles assisted Open Plus to establish lasting change in the implementation strategy used by Reuters Ltd in their £11M GCAP CRM project.
Myles is a passionate exponent of analytical rigour in the planning of technical projects and a keen student of modern “agile” project and analysis methodologies.
