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Presented by:
Jim Zordani and Nitin Kadam, CIGNEX
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2. Agenda
• Introductions
• About CIGNEX
• About Alfresco
• About Liferay
• Combined solution
• Case Studies
• Q&A
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3. CIGNEX Published Works
Dr. Jonas Yuan
Senior Technical Analyst
Munwar Shariff
CTO
…. to support the community and to perpetuate the
adoption of enterprise class Open Source Solutions
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4. CIGNEX Company Overview
Background
11 Years experience in implementing Open Source solutions
450+ employees
Offices in the U.S., U.K., Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and
India
Expertise
200+ Solution implementations with extensive experience
Platinum Partner of Liferay
Global training on Liferay products
Delivery Model
Distributed delivery model to provide true cost efficiencies
Commercial Open Source with enterprise support & upgrades
Agile methodology to realize the benefits faster
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5. Our Liferay Practice
• Close working relationship since 2006
– Contributed code & training modules
– Conduct Liferay trainings worldwide
• Global Platinum Partner
– Deployed over 80 enterprise solutions
on Liferay and over 200 portal sites
– Over 150 Liferay consultants
• Achievements
2010 Liferay Partner
– Authored 4 Liferay Books of the Year
– 2010 Liferay Partner of the Year Award
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6. Our Alfresco Practice
• Close working relationship since 2005
– Conduct Alfresco trainings worldwide
– Alfresco Reseller services
• Global Platinum Partner
– Deployed over 50 enterprise solutions on
Alfresco
– Developed Accelerators
• Migration from Documentum
• Contract Lifecycle Mgmt
• Achievements
– Alfresco “Recognized Developer” 2010 Alfresco APAC
– Authored 3 Alfresco Books Partner of the Year
– Alfresco Partner of the Year Award, 2010
– WCM Implementation of the Year Award,
2007 2010 Alfresco North America
Partner of the Year
– Best North American Implementation of the
Year Award, 2008
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7. Popular Open Source Technologies We Use
our enterprise toolkit
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10. What is Alfresco ?
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12. ECM at it’s most confusing
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13. Key barriers to solving ECM
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15. What is Liferay ?
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16. What is Liferay ? cont…
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17. Why integrate ? Benefits of Alfresco
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18. Why integrate ? Benefits of Liferay…
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21. Why integrate ?
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22. CMIS and other standards….
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24. Use Cases -- Intranet
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25. Intranet
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26. Intranet site…
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27. Demo
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28. Public website – Sample architecture
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29. Other Use Cases
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31. Grupo Posadas Overview
#1 Mexican hotel chain with a significant presence across Latin
America
• 2010 Revenue - USD 550 Million
• Hosted 3 Million guests in Y2010
• 11,000+ Staff
• 112 hotels and 19,849 rooms across Mexico, Brazil, USA, Argentina, and
Chile
8 Brands
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32. Challenges
Business Challenges
• Increased revenue per available room (RevPAR)
• Guest-brand emotional connection
• Real time implementation of sales & marketing promotions
through distribution channels
Technical Challenges
• Workflow functionality to approve and publish content
Content publishing not in the hands of business users
• Centralized collaboration architecture across all brands
• Flexibility and scalability
Cross-sell/up-sell across all channels
• Reducing TCO – License, maintenance, upgrades
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33. Key Drawbacks of Existing System
Poor response time Existing System
• Page load time greater than 4 • J2EE based Portal
seconds • Documentum ECM
• Disparate systems
Lack of content publishing workflow • Lack of centralized database &
and content staging collaboration
Content scattered across different
file systems
• Local and/or network storage
resulting in duplication of content
Lack of Web2.0 features
Lack of free search (similar to
Google Search)
Manual image transformation
• Functionality not available in
Documentum
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34. Business Drivers
• Real-time Promotions across all
Distribution Channels
• Improved collaboration across 8
brands
• Content managed by business users
Increase RevPAR
Reduce TCO Improve Guest Experience
• Fast & Integrated web experience
• Reduce costs associated with
across brands
AMC, Support & enhancements
• Enriched property presentation
• Adherence to I18N, HTNG
based on interests & history
Standards
• Powerful Search functionality
• Centralized Content Repository
• Integration with various shopping
• Uniform Application Architecture
services
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35. Proposed Architecture Solution
Alfresco ECM Liferay Portal
System & Network
Users
Administrators
Static Contents
Web Server
FSR/Web Application Portal
Alfresco Web Client Application Firewall
Portal/Web Apps
Image
IBE Widget Video Blog
Carousel
FB
Staging Server WTHR
Twtr
Search – Hotel, Destination, Special Map & Local
Flickr Be
Offers Attraction
Dyn
RESTful Web Services
Content Repository, Business Rules,
Security, Workflow, Transformations, Liferay Framework
Document Lifecycle, Search, Reports Social
Page Authentication
ECM IBE N/W Blog
Service Service Client Mgmt & Authorization
API
Run-Time The Mini Site
UI
me Management
Hard disk Alfresco Run-time
Oracle 10g Instances
Media
XML files CMS Oracle 10g
Images Metadata
etc. Folders
Rules etc.
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36. Solution Highlights
Integrated Content Management Portal
• Integrated Portal with Document
Management & Web Content
Management
• Facilitates real time sales promotions
• Easy integration with 3rd party systems
& applications
• Social Media Support
Content Repository, Search & Access
• Content as a Service (CaaS) –
accessible anywhere, anytime through
single point of access & control
• Flexibility in content editing – offline,
online and update
• Common, advanced workflow across all
brands
• Support for standard protocols - CIFS,
WebDav, FTP and Web Services
Flexible Architecture
• Support 750+ concurrent users and
2,000+ users
• Advanced access control
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37. Solution Highlights (cont..)
Security
• Data encryption, secure
audit trail, compliance
reports, etc.
• Secure access to
information from legacy
systems
Multi-lingual support
• Provides support for all
major languages
Enabled Spanish,
Portuguese and
English
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38. Free Assessment Offer
FREE 1-day Assessment Workshop
This workshop enables Enterprises to maximize existing IT assets
and build a road map based on proven Open Source technologies
that reduce software Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in excess of
50% and help generate IT budget savings.
The FREE 1-day Assessment Workshop includes:
• Situation Analysis
• Gap Analysis
• CIGNEX Recommendations
For additional information visit: www.cignex.com/freeassessment
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39. Making Open Source Work for Enterprises
Open Source reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of IT
solutions in excess of 76% over Proprietary Technologies.
Thank you!
Jim Zordani
Tel: (714)529-2200
Mobile: (714)287-2410
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