Alfresco and WoodWing Announce Open Source ECM/Workflow Partnership

Alfresco and WoodWing Announce Open Source ECM/Workflow Partnership

April 20, 2007

    DETROIT, April 20 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- WoodWing USA
and Alfresco Software Inc. today announced a joint program
to deliver WoodWing's Smart Connection Enterprise editorial
workflow system and Alfresco's 2.0 open source enterprise
content management system (ECM) as an integrated solution
for the publishing industry.

    Industry officials said the partnership will benefit
customers across the publishing spectrum.

    "The Alfresco-WoodWing partnership brings together
some of the best innovation in publishing, web content
management and content delivery systems built on top of an
open source and standards compliant, enterprise class
technology," said Terry Barbounis, CTO, Christian
Science Monitor.

    The new solution, which comes on the heels of
WoodWing's latest update to its industry-leading editorial
system, Smart Connection Enterprise v. 4.2, combines
WoodWing's three-tier open architecture editorial workflow
system with version 2.0 of Alfresco's open source ECM
software. The solution gives newspapers, magazines, book
publishers, corporate and agency clients a scalable
publishing system that is easy to implement, maintain and
integrate with front and back-end systems.

    "On a competitive basis, this combination offers
an alternative to traditional, expensive, rigid
systems," said Brian Kruger, CEO of WoodWing USA.
"We are now able to offer the best in editorial
workflow and ECM at a fraction of the cost of traditional
systems."

    WoodWing's Smart Connection Enterprise system helps
publishers shorten production cycles and make the
publishing process more efficient.

    "We are very excited about the integration with
WoodWing and the opportunity to combine with their
publishing solutions," said John Powell, CEO,
Alfresco. "This partnership is a result of the clear
demand in the global publishing industry for faster,
lower-priced solutions and leverages the adoption Alfresco
is seeing with leading publishing organizations and
publishing software companies."

    About Alfresco Software Inc.

    Alfresco Software Inc. is the first and the leading
open source alternative for enterprise content management.
It is the first company to bring the power of open source
to the enterprise content management market, enabling
unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of
ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of
content management veterans that includes the co-founder of
Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects,
John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more
information, visit http://www.alfresco.com .

    About WoodWing

    WoodWing Software specializes in software solutions for
the publishing industry. WoodWing excels in innovative and
flexible editorial solutions that help efficiently produce
print and online publications. The company's flagship
product, Smart Connection Enterprise, differs from
traditional editorial solutions because it has been
engineered from the ground up, utilizing the latest
technologies offered by the Internet age. Publishing
experience that goes back more than 20 years, combined with
the latest technologies, has led to a powerful editorial
system with a core based on XML and open technology.
WoodWing has offices in The Netherlands, Kuala Lumpur and
the United States. WoodWing USA is an expert in corporate
workflow efficiency. For more information, visit
http://www.woodwingusa.com .


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