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Dr. Ian Howells
CMO Alfresco
May 2009
Alfresco Labs & Alfresco Enterprise
AgendaAgenda
● Alfresco
● Open Source Business Models
● Alfresco Business Model
● Building a Stronger Open Source Product
● Principles
● Top Ten Questions
● Resources
The Goal of AlfrescoThe Goal of Alfresco
To Become the Most Ubiquitous, Widely-Used ECM System
ChoiceChoice
● Stack
● Service Level Agreement
● Fair Pricing for SLA
● 1/10th Cost of Traditional ECM
Labs and EnterpriseLabs and Enterprise
Want Both to be Successful
Save:Time, Staff, MoneyInsurance
Red HatRed Hat
MySQLMySQL
SugarCRMSugarCRM
AlfrescoAlfresco
Principles 3.1Principles 3.1
● http://newton.typepad.com/content/2009/03/building-a-stronger-open-source-product.html
● No Lock-in to Enterprise
● Offer Commercial Service Level Agreements
● Enterprise Customers Receive Fixes as Priority
● Extensions and Integrations to Proprietary Produsts are part of Enterprise
● Extensions to Ubuiquitous proprietary systems – Windows, Office – are in Labs
● Extensions to Manage or Monitor highly-scalable or highly Available Systems are part of Enterprise
1. What Products are in Enterprise and Labs
1. What Products are in Enterprise and Labs
● Document Management
● Web Content Management
● Collaboration
● Records Management
● Email Archiving
● Kofax Integration
● Document Management
● Web Content Management
● Collaboration
● Records Management
● Email Archiving
2. What Functionality is in Enterprise and Labs
2. What Functionality is in Enterprise and Labs
● Version Functionality
● Stable Functionality
● Stable Build
● Version Functionality
● Latest Functionality
● Periodic Build
● Daily Build
3. What QA is done on Enterprise and Labs
3. What QA is done on Enterprise and Labs
● 2,800 tests
● 13 Alfresco QA Engineers
● Multiple Stacks
● Open Source and Enterprise Stacks
● QA
● Bug fixes
● Stability
● Scalability
● High Availabilty
● Security
● Basic Periodic Testing for "Final"
● Open Source Stack Only
● No QA
● Scalability
● High Availabilty
● Security
4. What License for Enterprise and Labs
4. What License for Enterprise and Labs
● Commercial License
● SLA Based
● GPL
5. What is the Business Model for Enterprise and Labs
5. What is the Business Model for Enterprise and Labs
● Fair Usage
● CPU Based
● Not Cores
● No Per User
● OEM
● Free
● (GPL Restrictions on Distribution)
AlfrescoAlfresco
● All Products in One Subscription● Document Management, Collaboration and Web Content Management, Records
Management, Image Management
● All Components included● BPM, Workflow, Transformation …
● No CAL’s
● No Extra for different Client
● CPU based
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6. What SLA’s are there for Enterprise and Labs
6. What SLA’s are there for Enterprise and Labs
● Alfresco SLA ● No Alfresco SLA
● Forums
7. How do I get Fixes/Maintenance for Enterprise and Labs
7. How do I get Fixes/Maintenance for Enterprise and Labs
● Commercial SLA
● Fixes distributed to Subscribers
● Maintenance
● No Fixes Distributed Between Releases
8. What is the Enterprise Subscription
8. What is the Enterprise Subscription
9. What is Alfresco Network9. What is Alfresco Network
● Customer Spaces
● Ticket Support
● Product Updates
● Knowledge Base
● Enterprise Fixes
● Heartbeat and Monitoring
● Soon:● Proactive support● Categorized Download
Directory● Environmental Data
Platform
10. What Scalability and High-Availability Support is There
10. What Scalability and High-Availability Support is There
● Scalability Testing
● High-Availability Cluster Testing
● Easy Clustering
● System Monitoring
● Deployment and Provisioning Automation
● None
Try AlfrescoTry Alfresco
Top ResourcesTop Resources
Dramatically Lower CostDramatically Lower Cost
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● Total Cost of Ownership analysis
● Based on publicly available pricing
● Savings of 89%of the cost of SharePoint & up to 96% of the cost of other ECM solutions by using Alfresco
● Demystify some of the complexity around current proprietary ECM pricing
● http://www.alfresco.com/products/whitepapers/
SummarySummary
● We want t be the most Ubuiquitious ECM System
● Choice● Stack● SLA
● Fair Pricing
● Commercial Organizations in Production will Need Enterprise
● Otherwise No Life Insurance