Do you Alfresco?

…is the answer.

The question:
Why is our Chief Marketing Officer, Ian Howells, giving a webinar presentation tomorrow (12pm EST)?

SharePoint has been incredibly successful for group and departmental collaboration. Especially when it comes to managing Office documents.

However, it has not succeeded in displacing Enterprise Content Management solutions. ECM solutions still have a place in the Enterprise, and now co-exist along with SharePoint.

This webinar describes how Alfresco Share, part of the Alfresco 3.0 Enterprise release, offers a great experience for team collaboration.

In addition, Alfresco introduces SharePoint protocol support, which allows Microsoft Office users to use Alfresco as the back-end, negating one of the key advantages of SharePoint.

We will focus this webinar on the core use cases of SharePoint - collaboration and light enterprise content management.

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership.
• Operating expense versus Capital expense.
• Re-use of existing technical skills.
• Increased scalability.
• More flexibility in infrastructure choices.

Join Ian as he lays out these and other arguments. For an open alternative to SharePoint in the enterprise.

Register for “The World Needs an Alternative to SharePoint” webinar.

When: Thursday, Nov 13. 12pm EST (GMT -5. New York time)

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This complimentary breakfast seminar will feature concrete examples of Alfresco, being used by prominent enterprises, to solve real business problems.

Come and meet I.T. managers who are succeeding with Alfresco, and other open source applications.

Easy, open, value.

We have a great webinar coming up this Thursday, at 12pm EDT (GMT -4).

ROI-Based Enterprise Content Management features Alberta Seniors, a government ministry in Alberta, Canada.  ECM expert and ministry employee Peter Dartnell walks us through the business side of things, showing how his team used Alfresco to not only lower costs, but increase operational effectiveness as well.

Peter gives a compelling story about the returns Enteprise Content Management can generate.  Together with OA Solutions, an Alfresco partner, Alberta Seniors was able to transform a number of their processes.

Learn more, and register for the webinar.

Jim Robson, Architect at Rothbury Software, led a packed house in a demonstration of what you can do with Adobe Flex and an Alfresco repository.

It was a detailed, step-by-step walk through.

Jim built a simple Flex application, using custom components and leveraging the Flex event framework. He then integrated it with his Alfresco repository.

All in an hour.

For those who missed the show, we have it recorded.

Check out other developer-focused webinar recordings below:

1. Integrate Your iPhone with Alfresco
2. Records Management
3. Using webscripts in a REST-based architecture
4. Building Next Gen Enterprise Websites with Alfresco & JBoss (Rivet Logic)

“Putting A Flex Face On Alfresco” is a step-by-step walk-through of building a Flex application, and porting it to work with Alfresco’s Flex SDK.

In this webinar, you will :

• Learn how to work with Flex events
• Learn how to work with custom components in Flex
• Discover how to integrate Flex with Alfresco

Don’t miss this detailed walk-through. Look over the shoulder of Jim Robson and Malcolm Teasdale at Rothbury Software, as they show you how its done.

For more information, and to register: http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2008/08/flex_face_webinar/

On the road again…

Our summer road tour has hit Boston and Dallas, so far. 

Next stop: Sunny Los Angeles.

Despite $4.00-a-gallon gas, we are criss-crossing the nation.  And we do it all for you. 

The fans.

Because without you, we’d be nothing.
Melodrama aside (we’re not actually driving this road trip… gas IS $4.00 a gallon) - we’re very much looking forward to spending a morning with you.   The folks in the trenches.  The folks on the front line of content management. 
 

This complimentary breakfast event will feature concrete examples of Alfresco, being used by prominent enterprises, to solve real business problems. 

Some highlights:

• Discuss how the current economic climate is leading more businesses than ever to open source. (And hear what Forrester Research said about the challenges still faced by enterprise adopters.)
  
• Learn why your business needs an alternative to proprietary ECM like SharePoint, Documentum, Interwoven & Vignette. (And how you’ll be a hero by slashing your I.T. costs.) 
  
• Find out how Alfresco has saved millions of dollars for major enterprises.  (And how it can lower your costs while simplifying your architecture.)
  
• Steal this list: The 9 requirements you MUST define before starting an ECM project. (To have a prayer of succeeding.)
  
• Discover the 10 most common mistakes made by new Alfresco Admins. (and how to avoid them.)
  
• Pick up the 7 short-cuts that every Alfresco admin should know, to skyrocket their productivity!
  
• Unravel the 12 ways to get the most out of Alfresco.

Jeff Potts of Optaros, and Emil Loreto of Acquity Group, will be joining us to review the latest approaches on successful ECM implementation.

If you’re in the L.A. area, this is one breakfast you want a piece of.  

More information on the Los Angeles Road Show event, here. 

Law. Religion. Medicine. The Economy. Politics.

And a couple of other interesting (and somewhat sarcastic) options.  All are part of this Slashdot poll.

On the face of it is seems like a harmless, casual question.  But in thinking about these various facets of society, and knowing what we know about the benefits of organized collaboration… we might very well want to take another look at the application of open source thinking, beyond technology.

So which of these realms could most benefit from the Wisdom of Crowds?

The leading option may surprise you.

8.3 million downloads.  Of Firefox 3.  In 24 hours.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord 

Amazing.

Open source is on the march.

Did you know a city could have a slogan?

Dallas’ is “Live Large, Think Big”.

I don’t know who came up with it, but it fits.

And so fresh of our road trip stop in Boston, where we’ll not only enjoy the Enterprise 2.0 conference, the Red Hat Summit, AND GAME 6 OF THE NBA FINALS  (BEAT L.A.!!)…

We’ll be heading down to Dallas. 

• Home of the Dallas Cowboys,
• Home of the the Dallas Mavericks,
• Home of the Dallas soap opera.
• And home of J.R.  From the TV show “Dallas” (Classic!) 

Open Source ECM in Action hits “the big D” on June 26th with an informative breakfast session.  The event will include:

• A technical review of the Endeca Developer Network (EDeN), which was the 2007 Alfresco Content Management Implementation of the Year.  It’ll be presented by Optaros’ Jeff Potts (also of ECMarchitect.com).
    
• A technical review of Acquity Group’s impressive implementation of Digital Asset Management for Shimano, a Japanese manufacturer and distributor of cycling and fishing equipment.

You don’t want to miss it.  Dallas is a hotbed of open source innovation, with open source meetup groups galore, and enterprises of all sizes pushing the envelope on a regular basis.

You don’t need proprietary software to live large and think big.

Ask Dallas.

Luis Sala blazes through the building of a custom wiki, in less than 60 minutes.  See Alfresco Run, in this informative developer-focused webinar.  Thursday, June 5th… 12pm Eastern Time.

The session applies to anyone interested in learning more about Web Scripting and covers:

• Developing Web Scripts
• Creating a simple wiki UI.
• Exposing to the Alfresco UI.

Register for the ”Really Simple Wiki” webinar here.