Open Systems
Open Systems connects and secures hybrid environments so companies can focus on meeting their business goals. The Open Systems SASE Experience helps reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation with a comprehensive, easy-to-implement and use a combination of SD-WAN and Security Service Edge delivered as a service with superior user experience. That's our Service Experience Promise we have been delivering for more than 25 years across the entire globe.
Onboarding: Open Systems guides their customers through the entire onboarding process to get them from where they are today to where they need to be tomorrow, including project management, architecture workshops, installation and migration.
Operations: Open Systems Managed SASE comes with a 24x7 Network and Security Operations Center. Their follow-the-sun model ensures the highest level of quality around the clock with 3rd level only support.
Customer Success: Every customer gets their designated Technical Account Management team that extends the customers IT team. Together they ensure the highest service level and work together on strategic initiatives.
Enabling a SASE architecture requires a platform to connect and protect users, apps, and data. Open Systems Managed SASE unifies SD-WAN, Firewall, SWG, CASB and ZTNA into a comprehensive fabric managed from a centralized console.
Underpinned by a unified data platform, Open Systems Managed SASE empowers our customers to define networking and security policies once and enforce them globally. Predictive analytics identify potential issues before they impact business. Visibility, control and collaboration with the Open Systems Managed Services Team is provided through the customer console
Open Systems offers a robust, single-vendor SASE platform that is great for companies looking for both SD-WAN and network security, and would like a full service MSP. They are a good fit for clients that want network security at the edge and hosted in the cloud. Open Systems is continuously building out their cloud presence and are always open to customizing a solution if a client needs a POP in a region where there isn't one today. They strive to work with their clients instead of it being a transactional experience.
- Sarah Arnstein, SASE Sales Engineer
Best fit: Secure Access Service Edge
Companies looking to find ways to connect and protect users, apps, and data no matter where they are located. Typically have a dispersed hybrid workforce with limited internal IT resources
- Seeking Managed Services Interested in SASE/SSE
- Open/Ongoing Initiatives
Open Systems connects and secures hybrid environments so companies can focus on meeting their business goals. The Open Systems SASE Experience helps reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation with a comprehensive, easy-to-implement and use a combination of SD-WAN and Security Service Edge delivered as a service with superior user experience. That's our Service Experience Promise we have been delivering for more than 25 years across the entire globe.
Strongest industry fit
- Manufacturing
- Financial Services
- Healthcare
- Law
What we’ll ask before recommending them
- Do your remote employees have secure access to cloud applications?
- Do you understand digital transformation as it relates to ROI for your environment?
- Does your IT staff confidently leverage their time to move the business forward, vs spending time keeping the business running?
- Are Capex constraints interfering with your project execution roadmap?
- How do you address your network vendor sprawl as it relates to platform consolidation?
Compare Open Systems against competitors
Open Systems is one of 131 providers we compare in SD-WAN / SASE and Security. We’ll run Open Systems side-by-side against the alternatives on the requirements that actually matter to you — integrations, contract terms, support model, and real market pricing — and tell you honestly if a different provider fits better.
As your vendor-neutral Trusted Advisor, we can tell you honestly whether Open Systems is the right fit — and compare it against every alternative in the market, typically at no cost to you.



