Businesses depend on software "Solutions" to run business- and operational-support systems such as accounting, network and communication, customer databases, and many other types of systems. These "B/OSS" systems are used by the business to deliver products and services and range from the simple, such as a scheduling system running on a desktop computer at a dentist’s office, to the complex, such as a sales-quotation and equipment provisioning "ERP" system.

The current methods to deliver these Solutions are inefficient and expensive.

While some software components, such as FOSS, are available for free download, installing, configuring, integrating and maintaining this software is not free. It is very expensive and implemented through many manual processes.

Businesses that need these types of B/OSS systems typically hire IT consultants and systems integrators to implement. These engagements are expensive for the User and repetitive for the systems integrator. In these engagements: 

• the User must disclose all confidential information to the Expert
• the Expert’s income potential is limited by the number of hours in a day
• there is limited ability to re-use the work created by one client in another deployment
• there is limited ability to incorporate work from a different Expert

The SOFIns System can install, configure, integrate and maintain software in a manner that is:

• Automated: The SOFIns System deploys the software after the User specifies confidential information in the Profile and the Expert specifies the procedures in an Element
• Reproducible: Different users will receive exactly the same system
• Documented: All implementation is documented in the Element to allow any other technically skilled individual to understand how a system is configured and maintained.