Drupal in the enterprise

Sat, 11/22/2008 - 13:21 — em

Larger enterprises are finally recognising the benefits of Open Source Software.

As you may know, we're not fans of overpriced proprietary software. Smaller businesses, academic organisations, non-profits, and governmental organisations are all transitioning from experimenting with Open Source Software to mainstreaming it for their online activities. As per the Information Week article it seems Drupal and other open source solutions are gaining market share in the enterprise content management platform space.

Microsoft SharePoint has blitzkrieged the ECM market thanks to the same powerful weapon Drupal is using: collaboration.

In content management for the Web, Drupal is conquering new territory as companies look to build Web sites designed from the ground up to support social interaction. On the enterprise content management front, Alfresco has made collaboration and interoperability the keystones of its platform.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that collaboration is in the DNA of these software packages. After all, the open source model only works if communities of users and developers can work together to create and maintain products. Without that, they don't stand a chance against the deep pockets of commercial software companies.

More at http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=2...

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Some interesting 'fast facts' about enterprise document management by Pamela Doyle from an AIIM (authority on ECM) presentation:

1. Companies spend $20 in labor to file a document, $120 in labor to find a misfiled document, and $220 in labor to reproduce a lost document.
2. 7.5 percent of all documents get lost; 3 percent of the remainder get misfiled.
3. Professionals spend 5 – 15 percent of their time reading information, but up to 50 percent looking for it.
4. The average document photocopied 19 times.
5. There are over 4 trillion paper documents in the U.S. alone and they are growing at a rate of 22% per year (PricewaterhouseCoopers).
6. Corporate users received an average of 18 megabytes (MB) of e-mail per day in 2007; E-mail is expected to grow to over 28 MB per day by 2011.
7. Users send and receive an average of 133 e-mail messages per day (Radicati Group).
8. A single FAX machine costs $6,200 per year (Captaris); the average time to manually FAX a document is 8 minutes.
9. The average cost to send a package via courier service is between $8 and $15.
10. The cost of office space has increased 19% (Office Space Across the World 2008).

Source: http://aiim.typepad.com/aiim_blog/2008/10/10-fast-facts-a.html

em | Wed, 11/26/2008 - 18:35 |

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