set your content free: why you need an open-source strategy
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Open source is permeating the enterprise on a massive scale, including the content-management market. Given the potential to lock one's content into a proprietary vendor/repository, CIOs should consider open standards and open source for their next ECM project.TRANSCRIPT
Set Your Content Free:Why You Need an Open-source Strategy for ECM
Matt AsayVice President, Business Development
Alfresco
I Bring Good News
The economy’s silver lining
Open source interest is growing
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Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Low or Zero License Costs
Lower Total Cost of Support
Open Standards and Open Development Processes
Access to Source Code
Improved Security
Vendor Independence and Flexibility
Availability of Higher Quality Software Building Blocks
Availability of Needed Applications
Best-in-Breed SolutionsShorter development time by Using Off-the-Shelf,
Commoditized ComponentsInvestment Protection
Improved ROI Based on Current Commercial Off-the-ShelfSoftware/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
Percentage of Respondents
Several ways to save
Source: GartnerNumber of respondents = 274; Mean summary: Three responses allowed.
Survey Question: Select your organization’s top three most important reasons for using open-source software.
Savings/benefits that prove themselves in practice
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87%
92%
86%
82%84%
82%
91%
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
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But Isn’t Open Source a Fad?
Not a question of “if,” but rather “when” and “how”
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Whether measured in terms of lines of code added or new projects,open-source growth is phenomenal
Momentum is growing
Source: Gartner 2008Number of respondents = 274; Multiple responses allowed.
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?
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54
75
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34
53
58
27
85
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90
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0 20 40 60 80 100
Operating Systems
Applications Software
Infrastructure Software
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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
~100% to adopt open-source by 2010
What about open-source CMS adoption?
Source: Forrester, 2009
56% to adopt open-source CMS by 2010
Better quality, more innovative software at a much lower price
● “Open source software solutions will directly compete with closed-source products in all …markets.”
● 85% of enterprises currently use OSS
● 45% use OSS for mission-critical applications (Continues to grow)
● Why? ● 65% say open source has
sparked innovation inside their companies
● 67% … for lowered costs• “Lower TCO and flexibility to
launch and develop cost-prohibitive projects continue to be top reasons for using OSS”
● 81% … for better quality software
Sources: Gartner (2008), CIO Insight (2006), IDC (2006)
“Open source produces better software.”
Open source handles the important workloads
Open source is becoming the heart of enterprise computing
So what will this do to your
proprietary vendors?
Their response? Less choice
IBM acquires FileNet
Oracle acquires Stellent
Sun aquires MySQL (…only to be acquired by Oracle)
Autonomy acquires Interwoven
More content locked up in fewer vendors
Who owns your content?
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
