Alfresco: Reimagining Content Management

The evolution of business critical information and the way it is dispersed across the globe brings a new era of content and process management. The amount of information almost literally hovering “in the air” provided a basis for Alfresco, a leading provider of ECM and BPM solutions, re-imagining the world of content management. Taking the meaning of its name, its open source platform drives digital transformation and stays ahead of it in the virtual world of today by constantly moving forward in technology innovation, integration, and customization.

“The key is in four things: content, process, speed, and agility,” says Thomas DeMeo, Vice President of Product Management, Alfresco. With clientele comprising governments, multi-national organizations, and large financial institutions, the challenge of delivering business more efficiently, growing revenue, and cutting costs, while staying in compliance to avoid “getting in the headlines,” as DeMeo states, is something that most of them come to Alfresco with.

“It is really providing a company-wide platform for their mission-critical content. That is the crown jewel, so to speak.” DeMeo emphasizes the four key points to Alfresco’s flexibility to clients, especially CIOs facing budget restraints. “Alfresco’s open source and open core platform can run on a number of different operating systems and use a variety of databases. This choice and flexibility of controlling your own destiny is of high value to CIOs, especially when they had cases of getting stuck in one place after going all-in with a legacy vendor.”

Referencing partnerships with platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bob Crissman, Vice President of Global Channel Sales, Alfresco, emphasizes the value of such flexibility among competition and an additional layer of high-level security, stating that “it makes it even more powerful. When you add AWS into the equation, it makes the time-to-market and time-to-value that much faster.” Alfresco has been supplying NASA for several years. “Imagine you have a spacecraft on a multi-year mission and all its data is stored inside of Alfresco,” adds DeMeo.