Microsoft makes billions of dollars from SharePoint. It's their premier revenue generator at this point. The reason has mostly to do with Microsoft's sheer size, of course, and the prevalence of their operating system and office suite, particularly in small and medium businesses. But something else...
If I read one more article about the “consumerization” of IT, I’m going to get very, very angry.Yes, the tech titans among us have figured out that employees use their own personal devices to get work done. And yes, enterprises need to keep their data locked down a bit more than the average person’...
Ixxus has debuted its Social Content Platform for users of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. Ixxus says the platform offers out-of-the-box integration with existing social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn, allowing users to create a central...
As I sit awaiting my delayed flight, 5 out of 6 people on my row are using an iPad to consume content. I am the lone holdout, but only because my iPad is in my bag while I type this post on my MacBook.Everyone knows that Apple dominates mindshare and wallet-share in mobile and tablet (70-80% iPad...
Think of the kind of financial services firms that populate Wall Street and the City of London. The sort of collaborative ethos that surrounds open source does not immediately come to mind. Rather we see images of cut throat competition and a boundless desire to create a competitive edge, any way,...
Alfresco announced this week, the integration of Activiti business process management (BPM) in its latest release of Alfresco Community Edition 3.4.Interestingly enough, Activiti has been a stand-alone open source project delivered under an Apache license, but apparently Alfresco liked what it saw...
You can say a lot of things about Alfresco, but you can't say that the company wastes time.In May 2010, Alfresco shook up the BPM landscape by hiring Tom Baeyens away from Red Hat and releasing a first look at Activiti.In December, Alfresco released the first full-feature release of Activiti.Those...
The goal isn't to eradicate open source software from the organization -- it's to use it properly in the pursuit of the company's goals. The legal department should be part of the group that is applying the policy, and assessing and monitoring its effectiveness, but there should be equal...
Since arriving on the software scene in 2005, Alfresco has set the standard for commercial open source companies. Those years of hard work have lead to the company's biggest year yet.Let's go by the numbers to put Alfresco's 2010 in context:470 — The number of new enterprise customers Alfresco...
Last December we agreed to link up with the London Telegraph newspaper, which planned to put some time and resources into a ranking of promising technology companies in Europe.
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