Alfresco Named Winner in 5th Annual EContent 100 Awards; EContent Named Alfresco One of the Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry.LONDON -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that it had been named as one of the winners in the annual EContent 100 awards--a list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry--for content management and also for intranets and portals.. Other winners include such notable names as Google, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. and Microsoft. The Enterprise Content Market (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) market is growing at 18 percent with license sales of more than $2 billion. In parallel, there is a massive upsurge in the usage of open source with over 73 percent of the Fortune 1000 using or planning to use it in 2005 (Sources Forrester). "Customers are looking to roll out ECM enterprise wide," said Dr. Ian Howells, chief marketing officer, Alfresco. "This is forcing IT departments to look at cost-effective rollout and how to integrate ECM into a modern architecture. Open source is being seen as the way forwards." "In compiling this year's EContent 100 list, we found ourselves reinvigorated re·in·vig·o·rate tr.v. re·in·vig·o·rat·ed, re·in·vig·o·rat·ing, re·in·vig·o·rates To give new life or energy to. re about the progress, growth, and potential of the digital content industry," said Michelle Manafy, editor of EContent magazine. "While recent years saw astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, M&A activity and attrition, this year witnessed a number of promising newcomers joining the fray, and the list, as well as significant signs of maturity in leveraging XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. , open source and mobility. Alfresco's inclusion in the list show it as a leader in providing the open source alternative for ECM." The EContent 100 list is available in the December print issue of the magazine and online at www.econtentmag.com. About Alfresco Alfresco is the 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 For other persons of the same name, see John Newton (disambiguation). John Newton (July 24, 1725 – December 21, 1807) was an Anglican clergyman who had, at one time, been a slaveship master. He is best known as the author of the hymn Amazing Grace. and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfrescosoftware.com |
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