Alfresco Share / Red Hat Solution

Overview

Overpriced, overly complex collaboration has been commoditized and consumerized. People want the simplicity and familiarity of the tools they use day-in, day-out - searching in Google®, reading in Wikipedia®, writing in a blog, finding people in LinkedIn®, being notified in a simple RSS reader, viewing friends activities in Facebook and bringing this all together in iGoogle. Alfresco Share delivers all of this functionality for enterprise users, projects and teams.

Alfresco Share is built on the Alfresco enterprise-class document repository and delivers out-of-the-box collaborative content management. It simplifies capturing, sharing and retrieval of information across virtual teams. Team or project members can rapidly find relevant content, experts, view past or similar projects and keep abreast of relevant changes to increase efficiency.

For a full list of features, go to http://www.alfresco.com/products/collaboration/features/.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is designed by, and for, the most security-conscious organizations in the world. Red Hat leads the way in developing new security technology, making a secure operating system architecture an affordable, mainstream solution. Two examples:

• SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) is a feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that enables granular policy-based control over programs' access to data and kernel resources, preventing a compromised program from acting outside its policy. SELinux was developed in coordination with the open source community and the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide the highest levels of security for the Linux operating system. This kind of functionality was previously available only in special purpose operating systems for the military.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux contains many innovations to prevent buffer overflow and other memory-based attacks. These include Fortify Source, Stack Smashing protection (canary values), Pointer encryption, and SELinux memory protection.

With its latest security solution, Red Hat Enterprise Identity, Policy and Audit (IPA), Red Hat has built upon open technologies and standards to provide centralized authentication and management of identity information in a package that's easy to install and manage. This centralized approach allows user accounts to be shared across multiple applications and systems, increasing the efficiency of IT administrators while expanding the productivity of end users. Enterprise IPA's centralized management also allows enterprises to more easily achieve compliance and reduce the risks associated with having identity information distributed across multiple locations. This technology is paving the way for integration with customer's broader IAM environment including Active Directory, NIS, WAM, and Provisioning solutions.

Fully certified solutions

• Red Hat ISV catalog
• Red Hat is an Alfresco Platinum Solution Partner
• JBoss is an Alfresco Technology Partner

Key Customer Benefits

Red Hat has been rated the #1 vendor for customer value for the last four years by the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat also delivers value to joint Alfresco customers through compelling price and performance benefits. Deploying Alfresco on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Intel industry standard servers is well documented by satisfied joint Alfresco / Red Hat customers around the world. Alfresco customers who have deployed new collaboration solutions or migrated away from proprietary collaboration systems have seen their OPEX and CAPEX costs reduced through lower hardware costs, better application performance and reduced system administration overhead.

Red Hat and Alfresco deliver highly secure technology platforms, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux achieving the highest security certification for Linux, Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL 4+).

For Alfresco customers, Red Hat provides the most comprehensive portfolio of open source solutions, including RHEL, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, and full support for open source virtualization technologies including KVM and Xen. Additionally, Red Hat has the largest partner ecosystem of any Linux vendor, enabling Alfresco customers to choose best-of-breed solutions from a vast selection of ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators and others.

Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 enables organizations to control costs and boost productivity in the following ways:

• Rapid deployment delivers immediate business value: Alfresco's Web 2.0 functionality enables organizations to simply and rapidly rollout collaborative content solutions;
• Supports initiatives for knowledge retention, best practice and virtual teams: Organizations can support virtual team collaboration for home and distributed working, as well as support initiatives for employee knowledge retention and more effectively access best practice information;
• Cost reduced to operating expense rather than capital expense: Alfresco's open source subscription model allows customers to implement an enterprise wide collaboration tool at a low cost, without incurring capital expenses (cap ex) associated with traditional licensing models;
• Re-use of existing investments in hardware and software: Alfresco's open standards architecture enables organizations to leverage existing investments in hardware and software;
• Use existing skills: Utilize internal developers, DBA and systems administrators skills sets;
• Quickly create new applications to support departmental requirements: Alfresco supports rapid application development with components produced using lightweight, standards-based scripting as opposed to a proprietary stack tying customers into a single vendor and the related maintenance costs.

Customer Success Stories and References

• Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• The Clinical Research Information Exchange (CRIX)
• Daiwa

Alfresco and Red Hat deliver value to joint customers across the world. For a complete listing please visit http://customers.press.redhat.com

Learn More

Interested in learning more about the power of an open source collaboration solution? Here are some resources:

White papers and webinars are available in the Alfresco Content Community

• Product FAQ
• Product Demo
• Product Trial
• Webinars

Meet Our Partners

Red Hat is partnering with global solutions providers to deliver to customers a selection of trusted advisors to help design, deliver, and implement certified Alfresco / Red Hat solutions. Here are some of our partners that can help find the right solutions for your business needs:

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