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31 May 15
Ben AllumsWhat Do the Numbers Tell us<br />Without providing all the details (you can read the whitepaper for that), a 1000 user configuration cost for Year 1 for each solution is as follows:<br /><br />EMC/Documentum - US$ $863,938<br />Open Text - US$ $637,304<br />MS SharePoint - US$ $318,738<br />Alfresco - US$ $33,500 (US$ 46,250 for a clustered highly available model)<br />The numbers, while high for Open Text and EMC, probably don't really scare many executives or IT managers. After all, enterprise quality solutions aren't cheap. However, with the economy in a downturn, the numbers have become the focus of much attention and concern.
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06 Jun 12
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12 Mar 09
Yogesh PathakBlog post analyzing a white paper from Alfresco, an Open Source ECM vendor. The white paper deals with TCO for ECM.
The article, while acknowledging that license pricing is cheapest in case of open source solutions, points out that total cost of implementation of solution needs to be evaluated.
".....a 1000 user configuration cost for Year 1 for each solution is as
follows:
EMC/Documentum - US$ $863,938
Open
Text - US$ $637,304
MS
SharePoint - US$ $318,738
Alfresco - US$ $33,500 (US$
46,250 for a clustered highly available
model)
The numbers, while high for Open Text and EMC, probably don't really scare
many executives or IT
managers. After all, enterprise quality solutions
aren't cheap. However, with the economy in a downturn, the numbers have become
the focus of much attention and concern.
Keep in mind that the features priced are only a portion of what many ECMs
provide in their solution set.
Of course, it then is only a portion of
their costs as well, as when you include more features and functionality, the
price generally goes up.
The biggest benefit to larger ECMs is that the functionality is all supposed
to be tightly integrated, resulting in a more cohesive solution.
Of course, Alfresco is going to come out on top in terms of licensing for
this feature set. Their licensing model is a single subscription cost based on a
per CPU model. No extra costs.
The whitepaper provides additional costs are for the infrastructure stack,
including the application server, database server and operating system. And
again, the open source alternatives - Red
Hat, MySQL - come out on top.
Alfresco, while a great looking option if you go purely open source, is
supposed to work on just about any technology stack -
part
of their sell
. The decision to put Alfresco on something other than MySQL or
Linux changes the TCO outlined in the paper." -
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