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Top Eight Government IT Solution Built on Alfresco One
[October 15, 2015]

Top Eight Government IT Solution Built on Alfresco One


Alfresco Software is a key component of the tools supporting the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA (News - Alert)) Public Buildings Service (PBS) Central Facilities Repository (CFR), which was recently named a Top 8 Finalist for the 2015 Igniting Innovation Awards. The awards recognize the best government IT solutions and are hosted by the American Council for Technology - Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC (News - Alert)), the premier public-private partnership in the government IT community. Alfresco is a leading provider of modern Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management software, and its ECM platform, Alfresco One, serves as the content repository of GSA's CFR.

GSA serves as the landlord for the civilian federal government and is, therefore, one of the largest building owners in the U.S. Last year, it established the CFR initiative to help it manage its 1,575 owned facilities. Specifically, CFR centralizes all current building information, including 2-D and 3-D building information models, specifications and manuals in support of new construction, additions and renovations, and building operations and maintenance. CFR, leveraging the Alfresco platform, is developed to interoperate with other business applications, scale across the enterprise and support continual updates.

"The CFR is an active system that is continually updated as the single source of truth for building information in support of the PBS real estate portfolio. CFR is accessible on demand on any GSA-enabled device and shared across all PBS business lines throughout the facility lifecycle to increase qality and efficiency for this GSA program," said Charles Matta, deputy associate CIO at GSA. "It is essential that we continue to invest in and implement innovative open-standards technologies to complement, leverage and improve our IT solutions, supporting the CFR and other programs in order to achieve major quality and productivity improvements."



GSA, in its efforts to reduce its total cost of ownership while implementing solutions that are essential to future-ready the organization, chose Alfresco as the underlying platform for the implementation of CFR. GSA also chose the Engineering Data Management (EDM) Solution for Alfresco, from Alfresco Partner, Formtek, Inc. Formtek's EDM Solution allows for the management of GSA's AutoCAD information within Alfresco.

"Most people don't think of government as enterprise, but Alfresco's agency customers, like the GSA, manage billions of dollars worth of assets every day and require the same, if not greater, ROI, efficiency and flexibility in their IT systems," said Austin Adams, Alfresco's vice president of public sector. "These customers are also required to meet the highest security standards and only Alfresco can truly support their compliance."


About Alfresco

Alfresco provides modern enterprise content management (ECM) software built on open standards that enables organizations to unlock the power of their business-critical content. With the controls that IT demands and the simplicity that end users love, Alfresco's open source technology enables global organizations to collaborate more effectively across cloud, mobile, hybrid and on-premise environments. Innovating at the intersection of content, collaboration and business process, Alfresco's software manages over seven billion documents, powering the daily tasks of more than 11 million users worldwide. Select Alfresco customers include: Amnesty International, Cisco (News - Alert), DAB Bank, FOX, NASA, PGA Tour, and Sony Entertainment. Founded in 2005, Alfresco's UK headquarters are in Maidenhead, UK with U.S. headquarters in San Mateo, CA (News - Alert). Please visit us at http://www.alfresco.com.

About Formtek

Formtek, Inc. provides secure and scalable enterprise content management (ECM) and document management software and implementation services to worldwide customers and partners in the manufacturing, aerospace, defense, telecommunication, utility, government, and other markets. We build solutions on software technology platforms that are open and adaptable to complex IT environments, including Formtek | Orion Content Repository Services, Ephesoft Smart Capture, and the Alfresco and Nuxeo enterprise content management platforms. To learn more about Formtek, visit www.formtek.com.


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