Alfresco based DRM solution for a major Financial Japanese conglomerate

Company Overview
The client, founded in 1919, is one of the major industrial and financial conglomerates in Japan. The group is involved across different verticals such as Oil and Gas; Construction, Chemicals, Food along with being an international financial powerhouse.

Business Challenges faced

The client's research and analytics division of the Finance & Securities group publishes around 8,000 reports for US, Europe and Asia. The client had an existing manual and semi-automated document management workflow to publish financial, research and intra-day reports to their customers in English and Japanese. This system of document and record management resulted in the following challenges: Inefficiencies / overheads due to semi-automated system o Increased emails, reminders and phone calls within the division & with the legal team - involving more than 500 employees o No tagging and categorization making document retrieval difficult o Report publishing time was fairly long o Intra-day publication was taking 4-6 hours as opposed to the desired time of 1-2 hours Lack of audit trail resulting in increased legal risk

CIGNEX Datamatics Solution

On understanding the client's business challenges and requirements, CIGNEX Datamatics recommended the adoption of Alfresco ECM (Enterprise Content Management). Alfresco, an Open Source ECM solution provides the following benefits to its customers: No upfront licence fee o Alfresco charges its customers adopting Enterprise Edition a flexible Annual Support fee, based on the level of support required by its clients Flexible with the freedom to develop o Alfresco customers have access to the complete code base to customise existing code as well as develop modules around the core functionality offered. This ensures that the Client could customise the solution around its business needs, as opposed to modifying the business needs to suit the platform! Shared functionality in Alfresco community o Option to contribute to the Alfresco code base by sharing functionality developed by Alfresco customers, that are currently unavailable and have universal appeal. This ensures reduction in time and cost Access to Developers o As Alfresco has been developed on Java, JSF, Hibernate and Spring technologies, Alfresco customers do not need to invest into expensive platform specialists to deploy their solution. Out Of Box (OOB) functionality Highly Scalable & Reusable across multiple brands and businesses Huge reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - in excess of 90% over traditional, proprietary ECM solutions The client chose Alfresco 3.1.1 as its preferred ECM solution based on the Out Of Box functionality and the vastly reduced TCO offered by Alfresco with CIGNEX Datamatics, a platinum partner of Alfresco and author of two books on Alfresco, as the System Integration partner. Some of the key advantages to the client through the deployment of Alfresco ECM included: A standardized work-flow involving 6 steps -Create, Edit, Supervisor Review, Legal Approval, Publish, Translate - for all users, thereby reducing compliance risks Single Sign On for employees - eliminating the need for separate credentials management Seamless integration with all in-house applications developed on MS .Net technologies- analytics, authoring, coverage, distribution and MIS

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Key Benefits to Client

The Alfresco based DRM deployment helped the client achieve the following benefits: Automated, reliable and fully functional ECM live within a 6 month time frame o Robust report publishing system reducing the time to publish reports by up to 70% o Automated notifications helped in increasing process efficiency Cost-effectiveness o Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the CIGNEX Datamatics proposed Alfresco D R M solution was over 70% lower than the solutions proposed by other potential partners o Eliminated vendor lock-in & license cost by adopting an open source

About CIGNEX Datamatics

About CIGNEX Datamatlcs (www.cignex.com): CIGNEX Datamatics (subsidiary of Datamatics Global Services Ltd.) is the global leader in Commercial Open Source & SAP Connect solutions. For over 10 years, CIGNEX Datamatics has provided Open Source solutions addressing enterprise requirements across Content Management, Portals & Social Collaboration, e-Commerce, Document Management, Records Management, Digital Asset Management, Business Process Management, Business Intelligence & Analytics, ERP CRM, Enterprise Mobility and SOA. The company has expertise in applications and , tools such as Alfresco, liferay, SAP Magento, Sybase, Adobe, Pentaho, Compiere, Drupal, lntalio, JBoss, Mulesource, etc. , CIGNEX Datamatics focuses on addressing key challenges faced by CIOs today including: integrating Open Source solutions with existing line of business solutions managing the contradictory demands of reducing IT spend while rolling out new solutions Over the years, CIGNEX Datamatics has helped in improving client profitability by delivering solutions to over 200 global customers using Onsite, Offsite and Offshore delivery models. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, CIGNEX Datamatics has offices in Colorado, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Bosnia, India, Singapore and Australia.

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