Alfresco Highlights Record Channel Growth with Partner Awards

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alfresco Software, the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced it has exceeded its 2009 goal of doubling its North American system integrator (SI) partners and has grown its partner network by 156%. As a result, Alfresco’s growing ecosystem of more than 80 partners in North America – which include SIs, software vendors, infrastructure providers and resellers - now currently delivers $250M+ of services with Alfresco products.

“By supporting open standards, partners are able to easily build content applications using Alfresco to deliver portable business solutions that enable partners to better provide complete solutions at a lower price point.”

Alfresco also continues to strengthen its partner ties by announcing the winners of its Annual Partner Awards, which recognize the efforts of top partners who work with Alfresco to continually deliver innovative business solutions for content management.

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Due to Alfresco’s success teaming with key partners, for every dollar of Alfresco Enterprise subscription sold over the past year, $10-15 worth of services have been sold through the Alfresco channel. Additional channel highlights include:

The expansion of the Alfresco partner program for original equipment manufacturers (OEM), with the addition of more than 20 OEM partners in 2009;
Launch of Alfresco’s Partner Solution Showcase, an online content application resource that enables partners to promote solutions built with Alfresco; and,
The expansion of its North and South American partner program for system integrators (SI).

“We are very excited about the exceptional growth we’ve experienced with our partners, which is apparent by the increase we’ve seen over the last year as well as the high quality of participants in our annual Partner Awards,” said Bill Robinson, VP Americas, Alfresco Software. “By supporting open standards, partners are able to easily build content applications using Alfresco to deliver portable business solutions that enable partners to better provide complete solutions at a lower price point.”

The 2009 Alfresco Partner Award winners include:

Americas SI of the Year - Acquity Group

Acquity Group was the most successful Alfresco partner in terms of new business in 2009. They have been involved in securing some of Alfresco’s most prestigious Enterprise customers including Fortune 500 companies, and have impressed clients with their ability to deliver end-to-end customer solutions. Acquity has also been a significant contributor to the development of Alfresco’s WCM product positioning.

Americas SI Innovator of the Year - Micro Strategies Inc.

Micro Strategies has contributed significantly to Alfresco’s success - most recently through development of the Alfresco Kofax Release Script. Their ability to build enterprise class, repeatable, tightly integrated customer solutions (integrating with Oracle Financials, Kofax and Google’s Search Appliance) has helped them to grow their Alfresco client base.

“The flexibility, capability, and cost-effectiveness of Alfresco has been well-received by our clients. Micro Strategies continues to be excited about our growing relationship. Alfresco provides the ability for even those clients on limited budgets to have quality, customized solutions. We can build the sophisticated solutions that today’s clients demand, on time and on budget,” says Adam Storch, VP of Business Solutions, Micro Strategies.

Worldwide Training Partner of the Year – Clazics

Clazics has demonstrated exceptional growth and performance in its first year as an Alfresco Training Partner. Their collaborative approach, innovation and customer feedback on the quality of the courses they deliver have all contributed to winning this award. With their support Alfresco Training revenue in North America grew 71% year-on-year.

“We are honored to be named the “Alfresco Training Partner of the Year." When we set out to build our training organization, it was clear to us that the foundation of our offering should start with instructors who have a deep knowledge of Alfresco, complimented with demonstrated hands-on and real world practical experience in the ECM space. Simply stated, our training goal is to provide our students and clients with Alfresco product knowledge that can be translated and readily applied to their job tasks. We call it training with a purpose,” Marlon Johnson, CEO, Clazics.

Full details of the Alfresco Global Partner network are available on http://www.alfresco.com/partners/.

About Alfresco Software

Alfresco Software is the leader in the open source enterprise content management market. The company couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform at a tenth of the cost. The Alfresco content platform uses a flexible architecture to provide document management, web content management and collaboration software to over 550 enterprise customers worldwide. Founded in 2005 by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is based in London.

For more information, go to www.alfresco.com.