XTIVIA Expands Consulting Practice to Include Alfresco ECM Platform

XTIVIA (News - Alert), a provider of business intelligence, data warehousing, data management, application development, announced it is expanding its consulting practice to include the Alfresco ECM suite of products.

The company has also joined as an Alfresco Certified Gold Partner. It will focus on the Alfresco Enterprise Edition, an annual software subscription with no up-front license costs or client access licenses.

Alfresco Enterprise Edition includes document management, Web content management, a user-interface and a rich environment for building custom content applications. It also has add-ons including records management, clustering, content Addressable Storage support and Web deployment options.

Alfresco also offers support for SharePoint protocol, CIFS, WebDAV, IMAP and CMIS. It can span from simple shared-drive replacement all the way up to full-scale ECM and content collaboration.

“The addition of Alfresco Platform to the XTIVIA services arsenal increases our ability to assist our clients with their robust document, records and Web content management needs,” said Nir Gryn, XTIVIA’s vice president of Sales, in a statement. “We are seeing an increased demand for open source enterprise content management solutions.”

“The lower TCO, rapid time to market and maturity of enterprise open-source solutions, has become very attractive for small and large corporations,” Gryn added. “The adoption rate in the market is truly remarkable and we see the market continually heading in this direction.”

With its low-cost, open source offering, Alfresco has disrupted the proprietary ECM world, but the rise of social software in the enterprise has created a new set of use cases for content management - a growing need for new and more collaborative tools.

 Alfresco's legacy of open source and open standards (like CMIS and JSR 168) makes Alfresco the perfect platform to manage content in this new social world, according to company officials.

“Alfresco partners help customers architect and implement content-centric solutions that solve enterprise wide problems. XTIVIA brings solid expertise of the Alfresco Platform,” said Jerome Agnola, director, Channels and Alliances for Alfresco, in a statement.

“Companies of all sizes are increasingly moving to open-source based solutions to reduce costs, drive innovation and become more flexible in their architecture with standards based interoperability,” Agnola added.

Recently, XTIVIA announced it has become a Platinum Partner of Liferay, a provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal. A strong market for new Web applications, along with a growing number of satisfied customers, has increased the demand for Liferay solutions from its partners.