[April 26, 2017]

Alfresco's Global Partner Program Demonstrates Fast Growth in 12-Month Period with More than 40 New Partners and Recognition from CRN®

Open-source pioneer Alfresco Software today announced significant momentum for its Global Partner Program, with 40 new partners signed in the past 12 months.

Alfresco is also proud to announce that Bob Crissman, vice president of global channel program and sales, has been recognized as a 2017 Channel Chief by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company. The award marks the second consecutive year for the Alfresco sales team to be acknowledged for demonstrating loyalty and ongoing support for the IT channel by consistently promoting, defending and executing outstanding channel partner programs.

Further capping off a successful first year since its March 2016 launch, Alfresco's expanded Global Partner Program achieved a 5-Star rating in CRN's 2017 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide is the definitive listing of partner programs from technology vendors that provide products and services through the IT channel. The 5-Star Partner Program Guide rating recognizes an elite subset of companies that offer solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

"While helping customers achieve digital transformation through streamlined enterprise content intelligence solutions, it's critical that our team stays ahead of any industry or technology trends," said Ben Hartner, Director and Head of Content Management Platform Services at Perficient, an Alfresco partner. "The Alfresco Global Partner Program provides our subject matter experts with the latest platform information and best practices for process and content solutions in a hybrid or cloud environment."

Alfresco's most significant partner milestones over the past 12 months include:

• Introduction of the Deal Registration program - featuring industry-leading partner incentives, Alfresco's Deal Reistration program (launched in July 2016) has been instrumental to incentivizing partners. Within the first eight months, the program exceeded internal targets by more than 150 percent.
• Strategic technology partnerships - Alfresco has focused additional resources on building key partnerships and technology integrations, such as those with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce.com (News - Alert). For example, in November, Alfresco announced early access availability of its Alfresco platform as a single-tenant managed service hosted in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The Alfresco managed offering provides a robust content-centric platform allowing users to collaborate on business-critical content, with the network isolation and security of a dedicated AWS VPC, without requiring dedicated internal resources for ongoing Alfresco and AWS management. In addition, Alfresco is one of a small number of managed technology partners for AWS.
• Greater investment in technical certifications and partner onboarding - Alfresco increased investment in partner technical and sales training by 400 percent, which included dedicating more time for Alfresco's systems engineers to work side-by-side with partners. As a result, Alfresco saw a 500 percent increase in technical certifications with partners in the past 12 months.
• Increased use case documentation - Alfresco cataloged over 100 use cases and solutions that partners can use to demonstrate the power of the Alfresco platform to customers. Partners collaborate with Alfresco to address the needs of customers across manufacturing, finance, public sector and healthcare sectors, building industry-specific solutions for their needs.

"We are excited to see enormously successful growth with our Global Partner Program and the recognition by CRN - the standard-bearer for milestones within the channel industry," said Crissman. "We believe this momentum speaks volumes about the opportunity our partners see to build and deliver differentiated digital business solutions on our platform. Together, we are working to solve the unique content and business process challenges organizations such as government agencies, healthcare providers, manufacturers and financial services companies face today."

"Our customers require technology that moves with the speed of business," said Adam Storch, VP Business Solutions, Micro Strategies. "We find that by leveraging Alfresco's Digital Platform, we can provide robust, scalable solutions that can help accelerate time to value."

To learn more about Alfresco's Global Partner Program, visit https://www.alfresco.com/partners.

About Alfresco:

Alfresco is an enterprise open-source software company focused on advancing the flow of digital business. The company provides a better, more effortless way for people to work, making sure they have the information they need, exactly when they need it most. The Alfresco Digital Business Platform is an open, modern, secure platform that intelligently activates process and content to accelerate the flow of business. It provides the fastest path for people to interact with information and for companies to respond to changing business needs. Alfresco helps over 1300 industry-leading organizations build solutions where content finds users, processes dynamically adapt to changing needs enabling global companies to be more responsive and competitive. Alfresco's customers include Cisco, Bank of NY Mellon, Liberty Mutual, Capital One (News - Alert), US Department of Navy, and NASA. Founded in 2005, Alfresco has U.S. headquarters in San Mateo, California and European headquarters in Maidenhead, UK. For more information on Alfresco, please visit http://www.alfresco.com.

About the Channel Company

The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequaled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com

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