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Open SourceEnterprise Content

ManagementJohn Newton

Chairman and CTO, Alfresco

www.alfresco.org

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Agenda

Intro– John Newton– Co-founder of Documentum and Alfresco

A Brief History of ECM

Why Open Source ECM

Alfresco Open Source ECM Architecture

Alfresco as a Scalable Enterprise Platform

ECM and Open Source: What’s Next

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Alfresco is…

Open Open source, Open standards

Source Best-of-breed open source components

Enterprise Enterprise-scale, enterprise-infrastructure, enterprise-control

Content Documents, records, XML, web pages, images, rich media, code …

Management Most experienced team in content management in the world from Documentum and Interwoven

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A Brief History of ECM

1985 1990 1995 2000 2006

Advanced content concepts

DRM, DAM, Lifecycle Mgmt

Image mgmt and first collaboration

Filenet, ViewStar, Lotus

Electronic document mgmt

Documentum Saros PCDocs

Web content mgmt

Netscape, Vignette, Interwoven

Consolidation of ECM

Open source web content mgmt

OpenCMS, Mambo, Drupal, Plone

Open source enterprise content mgmt

CMS Standards

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What is Enterprise Content Management?

ElectronicElectronicPublishingPublishing

CollaborationCollaboration

FormsFormsManagementManagement

RecordsRecordsManagementManagement

WebWebContentContent

ManagementManagement

DocumentDocumentManagementManagement

InformationObject /

File /Data (XML)

Metadata SearchSearch

Source: AIIM Enterprise Content Management Association

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Applications of Enterprise Content Mgmt

Web and Portal Content Management

Collaborative Development

On Demand Publishing

Compliance

Records Management

Document Management

Digital Asset Management

Image Management

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What is Wrong with ECM?

1. ECM costs too much

2. ECM is too hard and too cumbersome

3. ECM doesn’t scale for enterprise requirements

4. ECM is isolated in departmental islands

5. ECM hasn’t changed much

Source: Information Architecture Institute – Jan 2003http://iainstitute.org/pg/the_problems_with_cms.php#00006415-years hard knocks

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Predictions for ECM

1. ECM will standardize, commoditize and the business model will change

2. ECM will become simpler, lighter-weight, and much easier

3. ECM will deploy new technologies to scale to dynamically serve the enterprise and beyond

4. ECM will decentralize, federate and integrate with the rest of the enterprise

5. Open source will become a powerful force for change in ECM

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Commoditization of ECM

Full-text Indexes& Categories Storage

MetadataDBMS

App Server

Web Applications

Virtual File System

WebDAV

CIFS

FTPContent

Repository

Business Process

Engine

CRM

Web Services

Portal Server

Knowledge Portals

High Availability

Hot Standby

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Standardization of Content Mgmt Functionality

Library Services

Content Services

Data Modelling

Search

Business Process and Lifecycle Management

Security and Organizational Structure

Application Integration

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Standardization Efforts in Content Mgmt

WebDAV – IETF Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning

JSR-170 – Java Content Repository (JCR) API

JSR-283 – Next generation of JCR

iECM – AIIM Interoperable Enterprise Content Mgmt

Where is the SQL of Enterprise Content Management?

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Open Source as a Force in Content Mgmt

Open source is now acceptable in F1000

ECM is fast-growing “must have”

ECM vendors are alienating customers & channels

Enterprise software and business model evolves slowly

Open source evolves faster

“After Linux and MySQL, enterprises are now looking for open source alternatives for the rest of their stack”

Marten Mickos, MySQL

$1.6$1.8

$2.1

$2.8

$3.4

$3.9

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

North American ECM Market RevenueSource: Forrester Research, June 2005

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Fostering ECM Innovation

DeveloperDevelopment

(Bugs)

ProductMgmt

Support

Sales

MarketingAccounts

Reception

QA

CustomerCustomerCustomer

PartnerPartner

Partner

Media

Shipping Customer

Developer

PartnerMarketer

Tester

MgmtSupportEngineer

Internet

BloggerCode

OpenClosed

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Open Source is Changing Enterprise Software

All categories of enterprise software affected– OS, DBMS, BI, Test & Build, System Admin,

CRM, ERP, CMS

Users sell themselves through try and buy

Direct connection between customers and developers

Architecture is guided by the community

Community, developers collaborate on the elimination of bugs

Faster propagation, faster innovation

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Simplifying Enterprise Content Management

Address the paradigms that users know best

Replace shared file drives with Virtual File System

Email-like plug-in rules automate manual processing & enhance compliance

Google-like search, Yahoo-like browsing

Templates to encourage reuse, simplifies use and provides web access

Simple data model supports end user administration

1. File System Emulation

2. Rules Engine

3. Out of the box portal integration

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Scale Requirements for an Enterprise Platform

Scale in Information– Complex search, structure & classification of

information

Scale in Activity– Complex information per activity with

dynamic views with full object-level security

Scale in People– Up to 100,000s of readers and writers of

gigabytes and terabytes

Scale in Geography– Sharing of information across continents in

real-time

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Strategies for Scaling Information and Activity

Modularity and AOP

Flexible Data Modelling

Object-Relational Mapping and Optimization

Service Oriented Architecture

Federation vs. Centralization

Caching and Clustering

Web Caching

High Availability

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Aspect (Module) Interface

Spring Framework

New ECM Architectures for Scalability and Adaptability

Content Mgmt Repository

DistributedStore

CIFS, FTPWebDAV

JSR-170& Web Svcs

JSR-168Portlets

ObjectPersistence

Enterprise-scale, high-integrity repository

Best of Breed Open Source Components

Modular, light-weight architecture

Distributed architecture

High Availability

5X faster

BPMControl

MySQL,Oracle

PHPFreeMarker jBPM JMX

Lucene OpenDRM

Java App Servers and Portals

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Scaling People and Geography

DBMS Index

R&D

Repo

Sales

Repo

Mktg

Repo

DBMS Index

DBMS Index

Federation

VirtualWorkspace

VirtualWorkspace

VirtualWorkspace

WCMRepository

WebSite

WebSiteWeb

Site

Web Caching

DBMS DBMS DBMS

Database Cluster

Repo Repo Repo

ECM Cluster

Distributed Cache

Clustering

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Gartner Hype Curve for Content Mgmt

Source: Gartner June 2005

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Future of ECM

Enterprise Content Management should be bigger– $2.5B ECM vs. $10B RDBMS

Standardization will fuel growth– JSR-170, JSR-283, iECM -> SQL for Content

Commodization will drive global adoption– China, India, Russia, Latin America

Innovation will drive scalability and simplicity

Open Source will drive innovation– Next generation: Wikis, Blogs, XML Composition– New distributed models: RSS, Web Services, Message

based

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Summary

Time is ripe for open source in enterprise content management

Open source brings the community into the development, support and service process

Open source changes the sales and price dynamics of the industry

Open source brings back the innovation process into the industry

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For More Information

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