Set Your Content Free: Why You Need an Open-source Strategy
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The document discusses the benefits of adopting an open-source strategy for enterprise content management (ECM). It argues that open source offers lower costs, vendor independence, access to source code, and other advantages over proprietary software. Survey results show that organizations increasingly use open source alternatives to commercial software to save money and benefit from better quality and more innovative options. However, some vendors have responded by acquiring open source companies and proprietary solutions, restricting choices. The document advocates for open standards and open source to avoid vendor lock-in and promote innovation.
Set Your Content Free: Why You Need an Open-source Strategy
- 1. Set Your Content Free: Why You Need an Open-source Strategy for ECM Matt Asay Vice President, Business Development Alfresco
- 2. I Bring Good News
- 3. The economy’s silver lining
- 4. Open source interest is growing
- 5. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Lower Total Cost of Ownership Low or Zero License Costs Lower Total Cost of Support Open Standards and Open Development Processes Access to Source Code Improved Security Vendor Independence and Flexibility Availability of Higher Quality Software Building Blocks Availability of Needed Applications Best-in-Breed Solutions Shorter development time by Using Off-the-Shelf, Commoditized Components Investment Protection Improved ROI Based on Current Commercial Off-the-Shelf Software/Application Life Cycle Costs Availability of Pretested and Integrated Solution Stacks Faster Time-to-Market for IT Solutions Increased Innovation Opportunities for IT Professionals Faster Procurement of Software Others Percentage of Respondents Several ways to save Source: Gartner Number of respondents = 274; Mean summary: Three responses allowed. Survey Question: Select your organization’s top three most important reasons for using open-source software.
- 6. Savings/benefits that prove themselves in practice 6 87% 92% 86% 82% 84% 82% 91%
- 7. The open-source model lowers risk ● Most IT projects fail ● Open source de-risks software acquisition: ● Try before you buy ● Stop your subscription if the vendor stops providing value ● Dramatically lower cost ● Worst case: ● Project dies and you’re out $xx,xxx or $xxx,xxx, not $x,xxx,xxx ● IT project failure becomes less probabilistic and less painful 7
- 8. But Isn’t Open Source a Fad?
- 9. Not a question of “if,” but rather “when” and “how” 9 Whether measured in terms of lines of code added or new projects, open-source growth is phenomenal
- 10. Momentum is growing Source: Gartner 2008 Number of respondents = 274; Multiple responses allowed. Survey Question: Do you use, or plan to use in the next budget year, an open-source project or product as an alternative to commercial software? 63 54 75 15 34 53 58 27 85 73 90 2 0 20 40 60 80 100 Operating Systems Applications Software Infrastructure Software None Percentage of Respondents Currently Using in This Budget Year Plan to Use in Next Budget Year Currently Using and Plan to Use in Next Budget Year ~100% to adopt open-source by 2010
- 11. What about open-source CMS adoption? Source: Forrester, 2009 56% to adopt open-source CMS by 2010
- 12. Better quality, more innovative software at a much lower price ● “Open source software solutions will directly compete with closed- source products in all …markets.” ● 85% of enterprises currently use OSS ● 45% use OSS for mission-critical applications (Continues to grow) ● Why? ● 65% say open source has sparked innovation inside their companies ● 67% … for lowered costs • “Lower TCO and flexibility to launch and develop cost- prohibitive projects continue to be top reasons for using OSS” ● 81% … for better quality software Sources: Gartner (2008), CIO Insight (2006), IDC (2006) “Open source produces better software.”
- 13. Open source handles the important workloads Open source is becoming the heart of enterprise computing
- 14. So what will this do to your proprietary vendors?
- 16. Their response? Less choice IBM acquires FileNet Oracle acquires Stellent Sun aquires MySQL (…only to be acquired by Oracle) Autonomy acquires Interwoven
- 17. More content locked up in fewer vendors
- 18. Who owns your content?
- 19. ECM trends in 2009 ● Governance, retention and compliance: ● Should see more as government regulation is back in vogue ● Standards and open source ● CMIS will open the content world as SQL opened the database world ● Open-source options throughout the technology stack ● Easier to use, customize, and deploy ● ECM software will become consumerized/Web 2.0’ified ● New Architectures - Loosely-coupled scale-out, REST architectures ● Mobile – ECM will follow you everywhere ● Much more (and better) software for much lower prices
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