Leading Open Source ECM Provider Recognizes Outstanding Partners, Customer
Implementations and Community Contributions of 2007
LONDON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in
open source enterprise content management solutions, today announced the
winners of its 2007 Annual Content Excellence Awards. The debut year for
the awards program recognizes its top partners and contributors in the
categories of Partner of the Year, Content Management and Collaboration
Implementation of the Year, and Contributor of the Year, in Europe and
North America.
"Alfresco decided to create this awards program in order to recognize
and praise top partners, customers and community members that are working
with us to help advance and innovate in the field of content management,"
said John Powell, CEO of Alfresco Software. "We are pleased to honor those
that have helped contribute to the Alfresco core and to improve and extend
our software."
The winners of the Alfresco Content Excellence Awards include:
Content Management and Collaboration Implementation of the Year
Endeca, an information access software company, was recognized for
Alfresco Content Management and Collaboration Implementation of the Year.
Endeca faced the challenge of creating an interactive online community for
its employees, customers and partners. This challenge was solved by
partnering with Optaros to create and build the Endeca Developer Network
(EDeN) portal (http://eden.endeca.com) -- the key online community
destination for its developer network -- which used Alfresco software to
combine technical documents, best practices, tools and utilities, code
samples, case studies and other information.
"The Endeca Community programs connect hundreds of users through
regional meetings and the annual user event, Discover. To support our
growth we needed a way to collaborate with tens of thousands," said Colby
Dyess, Endeca community director. "Working with Optaros to integrate
Alfresco and the Endeca Information Access Platform, we were able to
instantly share years of knowledge and experience. As a result, community
membership is in the thousands and participation is 400 times all previous
years combined. This award further demonstrates the value of remaining
focused on your users."
International Partner of the Year
Optaros, the enterprise-class provider of user-centered solutions
powered by Alfresco, has led the largest scale enterprise content
management deployments of Alfresco and the most innovative web content
management solutions (see Endeca). Through this work, Optaros has developed
deep expertise in enterprise-scale requirements such as clustering, high
availability and managed migrations. Optaros' user experience team has
assembled compelling Web 2.0 applications powered by Alfresco. Optaros has
numerous reference deployments in the U.S., Netherlands, Germany,
Switzerland, and has published case studies of the Federal Supreme Court of
Switzerland, Endeca, Swisscom Mobile Labs and State of Vaud.
"We are honored to be recognized as the International Partner of the
Year," said Marc Osofsky, vice president, marketing, Optaros. "The award
reflects tremendous work done by dozens of our consultants using our OptAM
process to implement enterprise scale solutions that have quickly
transformed what is possible into what is proven."
North American Partner of the Year
Rivet Logic, an open source enterprise content management and portal
expert, has once again shown an unsurpassed commitment to Alfresco. The
company has led several significant Alfresco projects around the United
States, including cutting-edge work on http://www.kaptest.com. Rivet has
also continued to support Alfresco with both marketing investments and
technical contributions through the Forum and elsewhere.
European Partner of the Year
Amplexor, one of the first members of the Alfresco SI Partner network
in Europe, implemented a number of successful Alfresco projects with both
public and private sector clients in Belgium during 2007. They continue to
enhance their extensive Alfresco skills by expanding their expertise and
training from Document Management to Web Content Management projects.
Amplexor has also supported Alfresco's marketing efforts by hosting content
management events featuring keynote presentations by John Newton.
European Contributor of the Year
Alfresco partner Atol Conseils et Developpement, a French company that
develops solutions for collaborative work and content management, won for
its contribution of Category Navigation, which will be integrated into the
Alfresco Enterprise core going forward. Atol CD has shown unwavering
support through numerous contributions and improvements to the Alfresco
core.
North American Contributor of the Year
In North America, Jeff Potts, a seasoned content management consultant
and ECM practice lead for Optaros, was named Alfresco Contributor of the
Year. Jeff has worked with clients to assemble content-enabled Next
Generation Internet solutions using open source software and open
standards. Not only has Jeff been a valuable contributor to the forums and
the developer site wiki, but he also hosts http://www.ecmarchitect.com, a
personal Web site with educational and insightful material that shows users
how to build upon Alfresco's ECM offerings.
The Alfresco Content Excellence Awards will be presented to the winners
at the Alfresco Community Conferences in San Jose, Calif. (March 12) and
Barcelona, Spain (April 22). For more details, visit:
http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/
About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software, Inc., is the first and 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 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, and former COO of
Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more
information, visit http://www.alfresco.com.
Editorial Contacts
Ian Howells Patricia Colby
Alfresco Software Inc. Page One PR
+44 1628 860640 415 875 7494
press@alfresco.org patricia@pageonepr.com
SOURCE Alfresco Software, Inc.
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http://eden.endeca.com
CONTACT:
Ian Howells of Alfresco Software Inc., +44
1628 860640, press@alfresco.org; or Patricia Colby of Page One
PR, +1-415-875-7494, patricia@pageonepr.com, for Alfresco
Software Inc.
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