Alfresco and Fatminds Case Study

alfresco.com fatminds.com case New Online Catalog of Continued Education Programs study Developed by Fatminds Powered by AlfrescoOEM Partner ChallengeFatminds Adult students looking to continue their education are often shocked when the search process turnsIndustry out to be frustrating and time-consuming.Education Many web search engines only show results fromSolution affiliated websites, limiting a potential student’s choices.Document Management Worse, the institutions that do show up frequently offer course catalogs only in long and unwieldy PDF files.Products These catalogs can be confusing, offering no ability to search by criteria such as category, location, or cost.Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 This makes it difficult for potential students to compareLily (lilyproject.org) offerings across schools.SOLR In this mess, the founders of Fatminds saw a market ResultsTomcat opportunity: adult students could be offered a quickUbuntu Developed a comprehensive catalog of education programs on the web and intuitive way to find quality, personalized continuingAmazon’s EC2 platform education programs, and educators, facing budget, Improved overall online experience for continuing education studentsRoute 53 DNS Service enrollment, and globalization challenges, could gain Established an easy way for students to collaborate with institutions, a more efficient and better-targeted student education seekers, career coaches and teachers acquisition method. Reduced search time for continuing education classes based In order to make the Fatminds concept a reality, the on user preferences founders needed to build an online content platform Offered educators the ability to access a highly targeted flow that would be scalable, secure, extensible, standards- based and cost-effective. The team also wanted to of prospective students leverage open source technologies as much as possible Platform contains over 100,000 objects with a 5% to create their online catalog and get it to market quickly. month-over-month growth rate “ “ We chose Alfresco because it is the most mature and best supported open source, enterprise-class content management platform and it has exceeded all of our expectations. Alfresco makes developing complex and scalable content applications extremely fast and easy. — Tejash Unadkat, CEO and Co-Founder, Fatminds

| Fatminds alfresco.com fatminds.comSolutionAfter evaluating multiple open source contentmanagement solutions such as Plone, Drupal, Hippoand Nuxeo, Fatminds selected Alfresco Enterpriseas the best platform to build their online educationalcatalog. Alfresco Enterprise offers complete enterprisecontent management functionality in a stable, matureproduct backed by a leading company with strongtechnical support. Additionally, Fatminds found Alfrescoto be easy to deploy, simple to use and cost effectiveto maintain. Other key decision factors includedauto-scaled systems management and alignment withtheir core multi-tenant architecture.Alfresco offers Fatminds the ability to focus on buildingapplication functionality for their solution instead of theinfrastructure. Alfresco is able to support a sustainable,fast-paced development process for Fatminds’content-oriented education platform.Fatminds’ development team customized Alfrescoby leveraging the custom content model and RESTful Conclusioninterface exposed using webscripts. For example, Using Alfresco, Fatminds has developed theFatminds created development tools that generate most comprehensive collection of educationvalue objects in any host language (such as Java, programs on the web, offering courses, certificates,Javascript or Thrift) from their content model, and degrees, seminars, and webinars to meet anyuse the generated library to drive greater developer educational need. With advanced searchingproductivity. Other integrations include tying Lily The company is running Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 on a and metadata structures providing numerous(lilyprojet.org) with the document store to scale Tomcat servlet container, Ubuntu server, Amazon’s EC2 preferences — categories, institutions, price, anddocument retrieval capacity and SOLR integration platform with EBS disks plus elastic load balancing and more — Fatminds makes it easy to find qualityfor more advanced searching capabilities. Route 53 DNS Service. It is also using its own proprietary continuing education programs in seconds.Using Alfresco as its content platform, Fatminds was system deployment and auto-scaling technology. Additionally, as today’s post-secondary educatorsable to quickly develop a complex and scalable content Fatminds currently has a dataset of over 100,000 face budget and enrollment challenges, Fatmindsapplication. Alfresco’s professional services organization objects which continues to grow by 5% month over has successfully developed a marketing platformensured that the company’s development team had month. The platform launched its beta version to its first for educators that provides a highly targeted flowthe right tools and support from the beginning of the customer, the University of San Francisco, in June of of prospective students through its own consumerdevelopment cycle. Within 6 months, Fatminds 2011, and anticipates having over 250 institutions on property at fatminds.com as well as through itsdelivered a production ready implementation. the platform by 2012. secondary distribution channels.

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