Press Release

Nuxeo unveils ECM Solution

The Nuxeo ECM Open Source Platform is a feature-rich, enterprise-class product.
Press release issued by IA Systems

[Johannesburg, 5 November 2009]

Nuxeo South Africa, the official arm of Nuxeo Paris, a leading open source solutions provider, and their affiliate partners, Sword SA, NokusaEI and GijimaAst are proud to announce the official launch of the Nuxeo ECM Open Source Platform in South Africa.

The event will be held at the Silver Star Casino on 2 December 2009, time: 08:30. For further details, please contact Malcolm van den Berg, Solutions Development Manager for Nuxeo South Africa, on +27 11 955 5106 or on e-mail: malcolmv@nuxeosa.co.za.

The Nuxeo Platform is a feature-rich, enterprise-class product that enables the creation of a wide variety of ECM applications and content-related processes such as editing, transforming, archiving, publishing, broadcasting and managing documents of all types (structured office documents, multimedia, etc). Based on a modern services-oriented architecture and Java EE technologies, Nuxeo leverages the full potential of ECM functionality within the context of a single platform with core ECM functionality that includes:

* Electronic document management (EDM)
* Collaboration
* Digital asset management (DAM)
* Records management
* Correspondence management
* Web content management
* Business process management (BPM) and workflow
* Knowledge management
* Content delivery
* Legal/statutory archiving
* Compliance management

Sword SA is proud to be associated with and being part of the launch of Nuxeo South Africa. As an Affiliate Partner, we are excited at the prospects and opportunities presented by the introduction of open source platforms such as Nuxeo Enterprise Content Management to the South African IT market.

One of the key findings of research conducted by Rivetlogic: “The value of open source in the content management landscape”, indicates that open source platforms create value for organisations by offering them a reasonably priced option value to undertake otherwise cost prohibitive IT projects, which ultimately resulted in lower costs and higher efficiencies. Sword SA subscribes to this view and believes that reducing the cost of the acquisition of IT will enable private companies and government entities to get 'more bite' for their IT spend.

With open source software gradually making its way into the centre of enterprise computing, and following on role models and peers such as Brazil and India, who have taken the lead in adopting open source software as standard for both the private and public sectors, Sword SA has been developing Nuxeo ECM capabilities to serve its South African market with distinction. Together with Nuxeo South Africa, we are geared to serving our clients, better, faster and more cost effectively.

NokusaEI – NokusaEI is an international consulting company specialising in enterprise content management (ECM) strategies, solutions and implementations. As ECM partners of Nuxeo South Africa, NokusaEI is recognised as having a significant record of accomplishments in successfully implementing ECM solutions at customers, with recent projects ranging from Canada through Europe, Africa and the Middle East to Australasia. “We believe that the Nuxeo Platform is a robust, scalable and enterprise-wide ECM application and are excited to be involved as implementation partners of the solution,” says Michelle Momberg, MD of NokusaEI.

GijimaAst selected the Nuxeo ECM platform mainly due to its rich features, flexibility and cost-effectiveness. The solution is ideal for our clients wishing to adopt the benefits of this open source platform.

GijimAst is positioned to help clients:

* Realise value – service delivery
* Reduce cost – associated with managing unstructured and structured information
* Minimise risk – compliance to complex legislation
* Create new reality – enhance collaboration from the Nuxeo ECM platform and additional supplementary offerings such as scanning and indexing, business intelligence and business process management

For more information, please visit http://www.NokusaEI.com, or contact Warren Buss at warren.buss@nokusaei.com or on +27(0)11 791 1028.