Alfresco Highlights Customer ROI With Winners of Credit Crunch Innovation Awards
Companies Honoured for Creative and Cost-Effective Implementations of Alfresco Open Source Technology
| Source: Alfresco Software
LONDON--(Marketwire - June 30, 2009) - Alfresco
Software, Inc., today announced the winners of its Credit Crunch
Innovation Awards, which recognizes companies for creative and innovative
uses of Alfresco's open source enterprise and web content management,
collaboration and document management tools to lower costs and deliver
business efficiency in today's challenging market.
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This year's winners include:
Credit Crunch Innovation of the Year
Global Winner -- Harvard Business Publishing (HBP)
HBP's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact in a
changing world by serving as a bridge between academia and enterprises
around the globe through its publications. HBP recently migrated from
proprietary, closed-source repositories to a more agile and open source
Alfresco-based infrastructure for both enterprise and Web content, in which
its digital content was being managed by Alfresco's enterprise content
management (ECM) solution. As a result, HBP has unleashed content across
the enterprise, resulting in improved employee productivity, faster digital
product development, improved Web content production cycles, more
revenue-generating opportunity and lower operating costs.
"Alfresco allowed us to move away from expensive proprietary enterprise
content management systems and take advantage of the flexibility, cost
savings and low risk that comes with open source," said Martha Stephenson,
senior project manager at Harvard Business Publishing. "Alfresco's solution
helped to put the control of content into the hands of the business units
to more quickly and easily publish content for both print and web
audiences."
Public Sector Credit Crunch Innovation
Americas Winner -- Small Business Administration (SBA)
The SBA was created as an independent agency of the federal government to
aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns.
The SBA implemented Alfresco's Web content management (WCM) software to
reduce costs and improve the performance of its business.gov Web site,
which is the official business link to the U.S. Federal government managed
by SBA. The benefits of implementing Alfresco have included cost savings,
speed of implementation and the ability to publish content at a much faster
pace.
EMEA Winner -- Flemish Government
The Flemish Government has an online collaboration tool for the management
of generic and specific social service information products for 40 local
communities in the Flemish Brabant region. Using Alfresco's WCM solution,
the organization has been able to streamline efforts saving both time and
money as well as more easily integrate different workflows for more than
300 products that have to be complete before publishing and must be
adaptable by local authorities for each individual Web site.
Commercial Sector Credit Crunch Innovation
Americas Winner -- Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop is the educational organization that changed television
with the legendary Sesame Street. As the single largest informal educator
of young children, local Sesame Street programs produced in countries as
diverse as South Africa, Bangladesh and India are making a difference in
over 120 nations. Sesame leveraged Alfresco WCM to allow more than 100
content managers to manage more than 10 TB of data/assets consisting of
more than 3000 videos and 400 games on a revamped site that serves more
than 1.5 million unique visitors per month.
EMEA Winner -- Saint Gobain
Saint Gobain is a world leader in the production, processing and
distribution of construction products, high-performance materials and
packaging. Deploying Alfresco as the standard document management solution
across Saint-Gobain Group worldwide, the company has been able to
completely integrate with the Group portal, overcoming technology
challenges to ultimately improve overall business management.
Credit Crunch Innovation Awards finalists included CRIX International,
TravelMuse, Warren County Correctional Center, North-West University (South
Africa) and EADS. Winners were selected by a panel of judges, including
Matt Aslett, enterprise software analyst at The 451 Group, Ron Miller,
freelance technology writer and contributing editor to EContent, Alfresco
CEO John Powell and Alfresco VP of Business Development Matt Asay. Winners
were able to select their choice of reward of either a charitable donation
or an alternative prize.
"These awards honor companies using Alfresco in innovative ways to build IT
architectures that are more cohesive, interoperable and ultimately more
cost-effective, and we are pleased to acknowledge all of those
organizations that have turned to Alfresco to deliver immediate value in
today's cost-conscious environment," commented John Powell, CEO of Alfresco
Software.
Full details of the award winners' implementations of Alfresco are
available on: http://www.alfresco.com/customers/awards.
To download a trial of Alfresco Enterprise please visit
http://www.alfresco.com/try/3.1/.
About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software, Inc. is the leader in the open source enterprise content
management market. The company couples the innovation of open source with
the stability of a true enterprise-class platform at a tenth of the cost.
The Alfresco content platform uses a flexible architecture to provide
document management, web content management and collaboration software to
over 550 enterprise customers worldwide. Founded in 2005 by a team of
content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum,
John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is
based in London. For more information, go to www.alfresco.com.