Alliance Technologies is a Software engineering company founded and based in Kenya dedicated to providing our customers with enterprise software solutions based on open source software and standards in such key areas as enterprise resource planning (ERP), document management, business intelligence. The Alliance Technologies has been in operation since the year 2001. The company’s core business has been software design and engineering. This has been mainly by way of developing tailor made software and also customizing open source solutions to fit the requirements of the local market. Over the past three years, the company has ventured into the world of Enterprise Resource Planning. In this regard, we have been vending, customizing and consulting on two world class open‐source based solutions namely Compiere ERP and Adempiere A1 ERP. As part of our innovation strategy, Alliance Technologies is currently providing core areas to the international open source ERP community by designing and implementing the following modules: •Human Resource •Maintenance •Quality Control •Warehouse Management •Distribution Planning. In our product portfolio, we also carry enterprise solutions for the intelligence, law enforcement and security operations. To this end, we build solutions based on world re-knowned brands namely PGP (for email and data encryption) and Vmware (for desk top and server virtualization). The i2 product is an award‐winning visual analysis and investigative tool. It is mainly targeted at the law enforcement, intelligence and fraud detection industries. Lastly, all solutions are complimented by our professional services namely pre‐sales consultancy, project management and systems integration. This ensures that we give our clients a one‐stop shop for most of their software needs. The products and services are backed by skilled personnel comprising in-house developers, in-house consultants and associate consultants.