{"id":796,"date":"2009-03-10T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2009-03-10T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T15:00:48","slug":"enterprise-content-management-a-drop-in-alfresco-ecm-appliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/enterprise-content-management-a-drop-in-alfresco-ecm-appliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Content Management:  A Drop-In Alfresco ECM Appliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ingress has teamed up with Alfresco to offer a quick-start approach to getting an ECM system up and running: a &#8220;software appliance&#8221;.  Based on the rPath &#8220;just enough operating system&#8221; (JeOS) version of Linux, Ingress has created the Ingres Icebreaker Enterprise Content Management software appliance.  It is a totally preconfigured software image of an ECM system that includes Operating System and application. Users can just deploy the &#8220;software appliance&#8221; as a virtual server and be up and running immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Ingress also will offer consolidated support for the appliance which includes support for the OS, the Ingres database, and Alfresco.  Offering a single point of contact for the solution considerably simplifies the use of open source software.  The cost of the appliance is $32,000 per CPU and offers an easy-to-setup alternative to Microsoft SharePoint.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting approach for getting up and running with Open Source software very quickly.  But it&#8217;s not clear how much additional assistance Ingres will provide towards making the ECM installation a success.  Without doing any up-front analysis, important configuration parameters can&#8217;t be captured, like data to define the content model, the users who will access the system, the necessary levels of access premissions, and any other usage requirements or expectations.<\/p>\n<p>At Formtek we offer a Quick Start option that includes analysis to ensure that the ECM system will be configured optimally for the organization.  It&#8217;s great to be up and running quickly, but the system also needs to be configured in a way that will be useful. 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