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Slide 1: Why You Need an Open-source Strategy for ECM Set Your Content Free: Matt Asay Vice President, Business Development Alfresco
Slide 2: I Bring Good News
Slide 3: The economy’s silver lining
Slide 4: Open source interest is growing
Slide 5: Several ways to save Survey Question: Select your organization’s top three most important reasons for using open-source software. Lower Total Cost of Ownership Low or Zero Licens e Costs Lower Total Cos t of Support Open Standards and Open Development Processes Access to Source Code Im proved Security Vendor Independence and Flexibility Availability of Higher Quality Software Building Blocks Availability of Needed Applications Best-in-Breed Solutions Shorter development tim e by Using Off-the-Shelf, Commoditized Components Investment Protection Improved ROI Based on Current Commercial Off-the-Shelf Software/Application Life Cycle Costs Availability of Pretested and Integrated Solution Stacks Faster Time-to-Market for IT Solutions Increased Innovation Opportunities for IT Professionals Faster Procurement of Software Others 0 5 10 Source: Gartner Number of respondents = 274; Mean summary: Three responses allowed. 15 20 Percentage of Respondents 25 30 35
Slide 6: Savings/benefits that prove themselves in practice 87% 92% 86% 82% 84% 91% 82% 6
Slide 7: The open-source model lowers risk ● ● Most IT projects fail Open source de-risks software acquisition: ● ● ● Try before you buy Stop your subscription if the vendor stops providing value Dramatically lower cost ● Worst case: ● Project dies and you’re out $xx,xxx or $xxx,xxx, not $x,xxx,xxx ● IT project failure becomes less probabilistic and less painful 7
Slide 8: But Isn’t Open Source a Fad?
Slide 9: Not a question of “if,” but rather “when” and “how” Whether measured in terms of lines of code added or new projects, open-source growth is phenomenal 9
Slide 10: Momentum is growing Survey Question: Do you use, or plan to use in the next budget year, an open-source project or product as an alternative to commercial software? Operating Systems 34 54 53 63 85 Applications Software 73 58 75 90 Infrastructure Software 15 2 0 20 None 27 40 60 80 100 Percentage of Respondents Currently Using in This Budget Year Plan to Use in Next Budget Year Currently Using and Plan to Use in Next Budget Year Source: Gartner 2008 Number of respondents = 274; Multiple responses allowed. ~100% to adopt open-source by 2010
Slide 11: What about open-source CMS adoption? 56% to adopt open-source CMS by 2010 Source: Forrester, 2009
Slide 12: Better quality, more innovative software at a much lower price ● “Open source software solutions will directly compete with closedsource products in all …markets.” 85% of enterprises currently use OSS ● 45% use OSS for mission-critical applications (Continues to grow) ● “Open source produces better software.” ● Why? 65% say open source has sparked innovation inside their companies ● 67% … for lowered costs ● • “Lower TCO and flexibility to launch and develop costprohibitive projects continue to be top reasons for using OSS” ● 81% … for better quality software Sources: Gartner (2008), CIO Insight (2006), IDC (2006)
Slide 13: Open source handles the important workloads Open source is becoming the heart of enterprise computing
Slide 14: So what will this do to your proprietary vendors?
Slide 16: Their response? Less choice IBM acquires FileNet Oracle acquires Stellent Sun aquires MySQL (…only to be acquired by Oracle) Autonomy acquires Interwoven
Slide 17: More content locked up in fewer vendors
Slide 18: Who owns your content?
Slide 19: ECM trends in 2009 ● Governance, retention and compliance: ● Should see more as government regulation is back in vogue ● Standards and open source ● CMIS will open the content world as SQL opened the database world ● Open-source options throughout the technology stack ● Easier to use, customize, and deploy ● ECM software will become consumerized/Web 2.0’ified ● New Architectures - Loosely-coupled scale-out, REST architectures ● Mobile – ECM will follow you everywhere ● Much more (and better) software for much lower prices
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