Customers often get significant it cost savings and a return on investment of 53% in 3 years Alfresco, the open platform to manage social content, today announced the results of a study conducted by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Alfresco, which sets the total economic impact of the content management platform Alfresco Enterprise. The study highlights the most common advantages of Alfresco and the return on investment, in relation to the total costs of training and it, and is based on extensive interviews and analysis of 4 large customer deployments. Studied Alfresco deployments, include entirely new projects as well as a complete replacement of a legacy and proprietary (such as Documentum or FileNet) ECM solution. The entire contents of the study, The Total Economic Impact Of Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Solution (the total economic impact of the Alfresco Enterprise content management solution), will be available from today on. Alfresco also announces the conclusion of a web conference on 1 February 2012, with consultant Forrester Sebastian Selhorst as guest speaker, which will discuss more details about the study. To register for the webinar, visit:. The study extolled the Alfresco Enterprise platform for its flexibility of integration, compatibility with open standards and the advantage of avoiding the costs of acquisition of license and maintenance costs with Alfresco. In particular, the Alfresco Enterprise platform clients found that investment recovers in 10 months, on average, and provides a return of 53% in the period of 3 years.

The total number of benefits offered for a period of 3 years, taking into account the risk and with a fairly prudent calculation, has been estimated at more than 1.3 billion dollars. This impressive savings only covers the direct costs of training and it. With the great benefits in the widely recognized employee productivity in the scope of document management and collaboration, the total return on investment in an Alfresco implementation tends to be much higher. We are proud of the results of this study, which demonstrates the value that we offer to our clients commented John Powell, CEO of Alfresco. Most importantly for us is to offer customers a platform and experience in services that exceed their expectations and allow employees to carry out an excellent job. This study confirms that the innovation of Alfresco goes beyond the great technological advantages and offers an unprecedented economic value for our users. As part of the study, Forrester developed a framework of total economic impact (Total Economic Impact TEI) for companies that are planning to deploy Alfresco Enterprise platform.

The TEI framework provides a proven methodology for interested companies conduct assessments with all the necessary information and make purchase decisions, to choose the management platform of business contents more suitable for their particular needs. To download the full study or sign up for the webinar, visit:. About Alfresco Alfresco is the best way in which companies share, organise and protect their contents. Alfresco community includes thousands of customers, partners and developers in 55 countries around the world. Founded in 2005, Alfresco has its headquarters in London, and the central Office of United States in Atlanta.