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Enterprise Open Source Content Management with Ingres and Alfresco
May 2008
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Introductions & Agenda
Mike Farman – Product Manager Alfresco Luis Sala – Sr Director Solutions Engineering Alfresco Mike Boyarski – Partner Product Management
Agenda– Content management landscape– Enterprise Software challenges– Alfresco Product Overview– Ingres & Alfresco Joint Roadmap– Q & A
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Content Management Landscape
Content is growing – web, docs, images, records
Document retention becoming more standard
Today, CM systems not widely used– High cost– Complex – hard to use and
deploy As usage increases, content
becomes more business critical
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Open Source is the ECM Solution
Open Source is now acceptable (Gartner: “95% of G2000 by 2008”)
More references coming each quarter Major ECM vendors (IBM, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle) are busy
consolidating or focusing on top 20% of market
ECM Revenues are Growing
The Enterprise Model is Broken
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Open Source is the ECM Solution
Open Source is now acceptable (Gartner: “95% of G2000 by 2008”)
More references coming each quarter Major ECM vendors (IBM, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle) are busy
consolidating or focusing on top 20% of market
ECM Revenues are Growing
The Enterprise Model is Broken
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Enterprise ECM Landscape
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Enterprise ECM Landscape
ECM Vendor Challenges Supporting many HW platforms Many middleware & O/S versions Results in QA spiral of death
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Enterprise ECM Landscape
ECM Vendor Challenges Supporting many HW platforms Many middleware & O/S versions Results in QA spiral of death
ECM Customer Challenges “How come you don't test this sw?”
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Enterprise ECM Landscape
ECM Vendor Challenges Supporting many HW platforms Many middleware & O/S versions Results in QA spiral of death
ECM Customer Challenges “How come you don't test this sw?” Not upgrading because “I just got it working”
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Enterprise ECM Landscape
ECM Vendor Challenges Supporting many HW platforms Many middleware & O/S versions Results in QA spiral of death
ECM Customer Challenges “How come you don't test this sw?” Not upgrading because “I just got it working”
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Enterprise ECM Landscape
ECM Vendor Challenges Supporting many HW platforms Many middleware & O/S versions Results in QA spiral of death
ECM Customer Challenges “How come you don't test this sw?” Not upgrading because “I just got it working”
ISVs spend too much on integration not on functionalityCustomers delay value to operations
The better way: Appliance Based Computing
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Icebreaker: SW Appliance Foundation
Single server software image – O/S, Web tier, Database
Unified patch update stream– Tested & Validated
One support contact Unified & simplified
management interface Foundational architecture for
Database ServicesLinux
Ingres 2006
Apache/Tomcat
Java
Ingres Icebreaker
• Integrated• Validated• Lower CostLinux
Ingres 2006
Apache/Tomcat
Java
Maintenance
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Icebreaker: SW Appliance Foundation
Single server software image – O/S, Web tier, Database
Unified patch update stream– Tested & Validated
One support contact Unified & simplified
management interface Foundational architecture for
Database ServicesLinux
Ingres 2006
Apache/Tomcat
Java
Ingres Icebreaker
• Integrated• Validated• Lower CostLinux
Ingres 2006
Apache/Tomcat
Java
Maintenance
Ingres Icebreaker
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Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance
A ready to run document management platform
• Collaboration, Workflow, Search, Transformation, Database, Operating System
Simplified setup/configuration Validated maintenance stream
– Stay current at lower cost Built for enterprise requirements
– Backup / Recovery Single vendor support
Linux
Ingres 2006
Apache/Tomcat
Java
Icebreaker ECMAppliance
Web Content Mgmt
Document Management
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Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance
A ready to run document management platform
• Collaboration, Workflow, Search, Transformation, Database, Operating System
Simplified setup/configuration Validated maintenance stream
– Stay current at lower cost Built for enterprise requirements
– Backup / Recovery Single vendor support
Linux
Ingres 2006
Apache/Tomcat
Java
Icebreaker ECMAppliance
Web Content Mgmt
Document Management
Ingres Icebreaker
Alfresco CollaborationSuite
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Ingres & Alfresco – The ECM Alternative
Open Source Enterprise Content Management– Alfresco technology running on Ingres– Customers can start small and grow – Availability built in for enterprise use– Easy to use– Open source subscription = lower cost solution
Alfresco & Ingres work together as of March 08– Alfresco 2.1 & Ingres 2006 r2
Ingres ECM Appliance– Lower adoption costs, faster time to value– Icebreaker ECM Appliance – EAP starting now
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Ingres Technology Value Open Source for the Enterprise
– 30 years’ experience in the enterprise now on an open source platform
– Significant breadth and maturity of features/functionality and performance that no other open source database can match:
• Availability– Native online backup support (no 3rd party solution required)– Online table/index reorganization (reduce outage windows)– Journal by table support (greater recovery precision)
• Performance– Stable and robust optimizer– Parallel query support– Broad partition support for large configs
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Open SourceEnterprise Content Management
Luis SalaSenior Director of Solutions Engineering
www.alfresco.com
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The Company
Alfresco is focused on providing the most complete Open Source alternative to Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
WebContent
ManagementCollaboration
RecordsManagement
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The Company
Founded in early 2005 VC Backed: Accel, Mayfield &
SAP 79+ Employees: Over 50% in
Engineering & Support● Distinguished Background in ECM
● We Believe in Bringing Affordable ECM to the Masses
● We’re Disruptive!
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Alfresco’s Open Source Model Really Works1 Million downloads
450 customers
● 5,000+ registered developers
● 21,000+ active installations
● 3,000+ leads/month
● Top Google ranking
● Adding 50+/quarter
● High and growing ASPs
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The People
John Powell, CEOFormer COO of Business Objects
John Newton, CTO & ChairmanFormer Co-Founder of Documentum (now EMC)
Dr. Paul Holmes-Higgin, VP of EngineeringFormer Portal Architect at Documentum
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Who Uses Alfresco?
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The ProductAlfresco Enterprise Version 2.2
● Enterprise-Grade
● Standards Support● JSR-170, JSR-168, SOAP, and
more…
● Highly Scalable
● Customizable
● Affordable
● Handles all Core ECM Needs● Document
Management● Web Content
Management● Records Management● Collaboration
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Architecture
AlfrescoVirtual Machine
Java and SOAPAPI
Alfresco ECM Repository
Versioning
Virtual File Server
LDAP Directory Database
Site 1
Site 2
Site 3
Workflow Security Modeling
Search Scripting Templates X-Forms
Web Client
● Document Management
● Multi-Channel WCM
● Filesystem Interface● FTP, WebDAV, CIFS
● Metadata Modeling
● BPM-Based Workflow
● Multiple APIs● Java, JSR-170 (JCR), SOAP (.NET, PHP, Ruby,
Java)
● Broad Platform Support
Transformations Rules Engine
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Striving for Simplicity rather than Complexity
Address the paradigms that users know best
Replace shared file drives with Virtual File System
Office Integration
Simple rules automate manual processing
Portal Integration
Google-like search, Yahoo-like browsing
Templates to encourage reuse, simplifies use and provides web access
1. File System Emulation
2. Rules Engine
3. Out of the box Web 2.0 integration
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MS Office Add-In
Microsoft Office Plugin (2007, 2003, XP)– Access to most Alfresco functions directly from MS
Office.
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Inbound Email Capture
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Ingres & Alfresco Roadmap
Enterprise certification – available now– Alfresco 2.2 certification in process
Community bundle– Alfresco 2.9 on Linux (Windows coming….couple
weeks)– Go get at www.ingres.com/alfresco
ECM Appliance– EAP version ready June 1st
– GA in Q3
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Resources
Product Page: http://www.ingres.com/alfresco/ Community Page: http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/
ingresbundle/ Alfresco Content Community:
– Documentation / White Papers / Webinars / FAQ's– http://www.alfresco.com/community/register/?source=community
www.alfresco.com– Developers: http://dev.alfresco.com– Customers: http://www.alfresco.com/customers/– Events: http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/ – Training: http://www.alfresco.com/services/training/
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Q & A
Any Questions?