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Alfresco Software Case Study: Nebraska State Legislature

Nebraska State legislatures required the management of documents such as bills, amendments, resolutions, summary sheets, bill introductions, priority bills and rules of the legislature to be effective. A new system for the "Revisor of Statutes" and the "Transcription Division" was required. The Nebraska State Legislature wanted to be ahead of...

Tags: Suite, Alfresco Software, Open Source

Case studies 2008-11-01

Alfresco Software Case Study: Reed Managed Services

Reed Managed Network Services RMNS, part of Reed Managed Services, provides IT services to the six Reed companies. The top priority project for RMNS in 2005 was to provide a single desktop for all branch consultants. The company wanted to replace current business excellence manual and incorporate role-specific training and...

Tags: Alfresco Software, Computer-Based Training (CBT), Training And Certification, Open Source

Case studies 2008-11-01

Alfresco Software Case Study: City of Lausanne

The City of Lausanne council is a Swiss local government authority. The city council comprises of forty-one departments, some of which had existing EDM and Records Management RM. However, many of these systems were proprietary and difficult to extend. The city council sought also to replace the use of a...

Tags: City Council, Alfresco Software, Records Management

Case studies 2008-11-01

Alfresco Software Case Study: go2 Media - go2.com

A mobile media company, go2 Media was using a customized version of WordPress as a Content Management Solution CMS for its mobile media service business. go2 found that scalability and maintenance were extremely difficult with WordPress because it was very tied to the PHP model. go2 realized that it needed...

Tags: Mobile, Media, Wordpress, Alfresco Software, Content Management, Advertising & Promotion, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2008-11-01

Alfresco Software Case Study: Swansea Housing Association

Swansea Housing Association SHA is a non-profit organization set up in 1978 which provides homes in the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot areas for a wide variety of people of different age groups, many with different needs and accommodation preferences. Swansea Housing Association was looking for a solution that would...

Tags: Accommodation, Alfresco Software, Swansea Housing Association, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity

Case studies 2008-11-01

Alfresco Software Case Study: The Clinical Research Information Exchange (CRIX)

Clinical Research Information Exchange CRIX International is a not-for-profit collaborative consortium that includes government agencies, members of the biopharmaceutical industry, academic researchers, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders in the development of new drug therapies. Getting new drugs to market has always been a complex, costly and labor-intensive process. One of...

Tags: FDA, Authentication, JBoss, Alfresco Software, Java Development Tools, Federal Government, Development Tools, Open Source, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Government, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-11-01

Additional Resources

Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms

Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs -  announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft SharePoint, Compliance, Box, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Falling profits forced Microsoft's open source hand

Falling profits forced Microsoft's open source handDana, your dreaming. nt.StillFirst of all, I think everyone has seen earnings drop since November of last year. I don't think Microsoft's market share in relation to Linux has changed much over the last year. If someone can show me numbers...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, open source, software, Dana, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Will European rules impact open source business models?

Will European rules impact open source business models?Download is not the issue - its the tender processIt makes no sense to have a policy that accepts software that is 100% proprietary or 100% open source and nothing in between.Any commercial open source vendor can get around the download issue by...

Tags: Roberto, Alfresco, open source, Funambol, Pentaho

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Alfresco agonistes

Alfresco agonistesThe race to zero is almost completeIt is getting harder and harder to see viable business plans for open source. The recession which were supposed to be so great for open source is having the opposite effect: Instead of customers rushing to the open source model with "paid support",...

Tags: COMPANIES, open source, Alfresco

Discussion threads 2009-05-17

OS execs split over fate of MySQL under Oracle's grip

  The fate of Sun's open source jewels -- especially MySQL -- has been heavily debated since Oracle announced its intentions to buy the Java giant earlier this week.  Few expect the Redwood Shores, Calif. database giant to mess with Java. It is a...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Operating System, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Corrupting consolidation

The last week or so I've had a number of conversations with colleagues attempting to figure out how and why the enterprise software mega-players continue to get away with premium pricing during the worst recession in living memory. Why is it that Oracle can show its best...

Tags: Consolidation, Vendor, Wall Street, Vinnie, Agresso, Financial Planning, Strategy, Open Source, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Defense Department makes more open source moves

Your Department of Defense made some major moves on open source this week. It announced it will work with the Open Source Software Institute to bring over 50 administration applications under open source licenses, starting with its Corporate Management Information System. DoD signed a Blanket Purchase Agreement...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Defense, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-18

News to know: Microsoft's layoffs, Google's profits, Win7 netbooks, White House tech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft: 'We are not immune' to economy; Cuts 5,000 jobs; Earnings fall short Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...

Tags: Google Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, White House, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Open source thrives in downturn

Collaboration initiatives are all about streamlining business processes, and the interfaces between legacy closed systems and open source stacks are an increasingly common place to find business collaboration environments. According to research firm Gartner, open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the...

Tags: Intalio Inc., Collaboration Initiative, Alfresco, Open Source, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Open source is not all about the money

Open source is not all about the moneyI'm kind of sorry to see them go.I just happened to come across this site: http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/sun_microsystems.htmIt seems that the "vultures" are striking early. I didn't really care for Sun's seesaw affair with Open Source but I believe their presence helped to strengthen...

Tags: open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source IS

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?

SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?Great Session Great ArticleI appreciated seeing this article so quickly after the talk. Mark Gilbert makes some interesting commentary. Nothing too new here, but a good regurgitation of what's been said by Matt Cain and others about the need for governance and the...

Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Mark Gilbert, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

SMARTi COLD for Alfresco 3.1.7 (Windows)

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost. Filemark SMARTi COLD/ERM has been integrated with Alfresco...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, FileMark, Alfresco, Filemark SMARTi COLD ERM, Open Source

Software downloads 2008-07-23

SMARTi II 3.1.6.18 (Windows)

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost. SMARTi II has been integrated with Alfresco for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, FileMark, Alfresco, SMARTi II, Open Source

Software downloads 2008-07-11

Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise

Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertiseCompanies making money from open source.Well, there's Red Hat... and there's Red Hat and, oh yes, I remember, Red Hat.There are ways to save expenses with open source, but that's different from making money with open source. If a company...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2008-06-17