NY RoadShow
NY Roadshow was last Friday in New York City. It was a morning event, from nine till noon. It was packed house, with about 40 attendees.
Some of the notable things from the event, (apart from my riveting demonstration of Alfresco Share of course), were the case studies:
- Harvard Business Publishing talked about their use of Alfresco. Of particular interest was the fact that they are using Alfresco as an integrated content management application, both the Document Management as well as Web Content Management. It sounds like they also integrated Alfresco with some interesting technologies, such as Synaptica for Taxonomy and Oracle ERP Suite. They built up a custom interface with JBoss SEAM. Their Web Content Management involves three web properties, and numerous micro-sites. Other interesting integrations on the project were Endeca for Search, MarcLogic for XML storage, integration with Ad networks. Because the presentation was more business focused, I’d like to learn more about some of the internals of these integrations.
- Partner Red Hat (JBoss) spoke about how Open Source delivers true value to the consumers, and how portals help deliver that value.
- Our partner RivetLogic spoke about another interesting case study – ConnectedWeddings.com. ConnectedWeddings received a grant from FaceBook fund to build their application on top of a true enterprise platform. They chose Alfresco, and now they using Alfresco in conjunction with JBoss to power their Facebook application. They can author content in Alfresco WCM and publish it to a delivery environment that surfaces content to Facebook, a website, and iPhone client.
I enjoyed the event, especially since it kept at a brisk pace with a lot of content to cover. I did get a sense that more of a deep dive into some of the 3.0 technologies might have been nice though.
One nice thing that came out of it is that I reconnected with my old college suitemate, who came to the event.
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
As an attendee I can say it was worthwhile. I am impressed how others are pushing the alfresco envelope and are using it for applications and uses that I would not have considered.
I have saved my nametag, and have posted it to my wall-of-fame. The breakfast was excellent, but I didn’t tell my co-workers, they were already jealous after looking at my nametag.
And seeing you show a working 3.0 share environment made me redouble my efforts in getting my deployment working. Which I am happy to say is.
Thanks again for inviting me.