Our case study series continues with a spotlight on Fatminds. An enterprise customer for over seven months, Fatminds has developed an interesting solution using Alfresco that seeks to serve the continuing education industry.
Adult students looking to continue their education are often shocked when the search process turns out to be frustrating and time-consuming. Alternatively, educators often come across challenges trying to make their content and courses available to these students.
Early in 2011, the founders of Fatminds saw an opportunity to address both of these needs by creating a comprehensive collection of education programs on the web. With advanced searching and metadata structures providing numerous preferences, Fatminds makes it easy to find quality continuing education programs in moments.
Additionally, as today’s post-secondary educators face budget and enrollment challenges, Fatminds has successfully developed a marketing platform for educators that provides a highly targeted flow of prospective students through its own consumer property at fatminds.com as well as through its secondary distribution channels.
Fatminds found Alfresco to be easy to deploy, simple to use and cost effective to maintain. Using Alfresco as its content platform, Fatminds was able to quickly develop a complex and scalable content application. Alfresco’s professional services organization ensured that the company’s development team had the right tools and support from the beginning of the development cycle. Within six months, Fatminds delivered a production ready implementation.
The platform launched its beta version to its first customer, the University of San Francisco, in June of 2011, and anticipates having over 250 institutions on the platform by 2012.
Tejash Unadkat, the CEO and Co-Founder of Fatminds, summed it up best by saying:
“We chose Alfresco because it is the most mature and best supported open source, enterprise-class content management platform and it has exceeded all of our expectations. Alfresco makes developing complex and scalable content applications extremely fast and easy.”
You can find the full case study here.
