Novell & Alfresco

Market Start Program

Meet the Partner

"Alfresco and Novell have teamed up to provide the industry's best Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution, be it open source or proprietary. We look forward to leveraging Novell's global reach and brand, while offering our joint customers the performance, ease-of-use, and cost savings of Alfresco Enterprise Network."
John Powell
CEO & Co-Founder
Alfresco Software

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for Enterprise Content Management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the Enterprise Content Management market, enabling unprecedented scale, higher performance, and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, as well as the founding development team from Interwoven, Alfresco has joined Novell's MarketStart program to expand its alliance with Novell and fuel the rise of Alfresco's open source ECM solution. Alfresco is based in London, with its US headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Alfresco Enterprise supports Novell's SUSE Linux, OES, and NetWare platforms and is available as an installed, hosted, or appliance-based solution.

Resources

Alfresco Enterprise Demo - Hosted or On-site
Alfresco is the first new Enterprise Content Management system in at least six years. Open source, open standards, and a modern architecture combine to make Alfresco Enterprise easy-to-use, exceptionally scalable, high-performance, and inexpensive to deploy. Our hosted or on-site trials give you the opportunity to take Alfresco for a spin to see for yourself. +

Alfresco Enterprise Content Management overview White Paper: "Enterprise Content Management and Open Source"
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is consistently a top-ten initiative of Fortune 1000 CIOs. Over the last decade, ECM has grown from a nice to have to a necessity. This is because content in its many different forms plays an indispensable role in the running a business and maintaining compliance with government regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley. This white paper examines the benefits of ECM, with a particular emphasis on the importance open source can play in a robust ECM solution. +

Success Story

Boise Cascade is a privately held US manufacturer of paper and wood, with over 10,000 employees in the United States, Canada and the UK with revenues in excess of $5 billion. The company had a major requirement to update its invoice management system. It wanted to use modern standards and formats. Boise Cascade also wanted to have more control and better management over the distribution and retention of invoices. Boise Cascade chose Alfresco because it offered the functionality of other Enterprise Content Management systems at a fraction of the cost. The company also appreciated the ease-of-use in the Alfresco Enterprise Network: Alfresco is able to create a system that is as simple to use as a shared drive, hiding the underlying sophistication of the system. Simple to configure rules govern the lifecycle management of documents. The ability to "scale-out" by simply adding new low-cost machines was also seen as a key technical and cost differentiator. The use of standards was also seen as important to prevent proprietary tie-in and allow longevity of document access - critical for long-term retention. Another key factor was the experience of the team behind Alfresco that came through in the evaluation process.

The full case study can be found here. +