KM Bulletin: Lower your ECM Costs and Avoid Vendor Lock-In with open source ECM.

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Traditional approaches to content management from proprietary vendors are expensive, difficult to deploy, and costly to maintain. Commercial open source solutions lower your total cost of ownership. In fact, Alfresco has been proven to reduce ECM Total Cost of Ownership by up to 96%, when compared to proprietary systems like Documentum, Open Text, and SharePoint. Alfresco is also as simple to use as a shared drive, or SharePoint, and doesn't lock you in to a proprietary stack. Try a fully featured version of Alfresco Enterprise Edition on your personal computer, for 30 days. It's on us. Why Alfresco is Different In the current economic climate, organizations need to do more with less. Alfresco was founded by a team built from ECM veterans - including the co-founder of Documentum. Alfresco uses an open source business model to dramatically reduce the expenses companies incur in the following areas: Reduced development cost Alfresco has a large community of developers and works with other open source projects to reduce the cost of development. This provides enhanced testing (improving quality), contributions (improving functionality), and integration of open source components reducing core engineering effort. Reduced sales and marketing costs By providing a free product, Alfresco enables prospective customers to evaluate and field test the software prior to embarking on major projects and production rollouts; and, Lower integration costs Alfresco's lightweight scripting and development of an ECM stack based on open standards at each level significantly lowers an enterprise's integration costs. Complete Enterprise-class Content Management. Alfresco's software suite includes: Document Management Web Content Management, Collaborative Community Management, Records Management, Digital Asset Management, and Email Archiving. One repository, built on a modern stack.   Features and benefits in Alfresco Enterprise include: Efficient and easy ECM in the cloud Multi-Tenancy Cloud-deployable Enterprise-class compliance at a dramatically lower cost: 5015.2 certified Records Management IMAP support for email client access & email archiving Scalable collaborative community management: Collaborative content creation Rich user profiles Simplified, high-availability administration: Storage policies Monitoring and configuration tools Web content management performance enhancements: Authoring and deployment Innovation in a Tough Economy Everywhere you look you read about the economy being in the worst shape for a very long time. "Do more with less”, “do what you have to” and “value for money” are the mantras for enterprise software this year. Lee Thompson, technology chief of E*Trade, speaking recently to Business Week summed it up best: "In times of recession, companies need to find a way to do more with less, figure out the value gained out of every penny they spend and make alternatives to reduce costs.”   Try a fully featured version of Alfresco Enterprise Edition for 30 days. Your content will thank you.

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