Alfresco and VDEL GmbH Partner to Deliver Open Source ECM to Eastern Europe, Russia, and CIS
London, UK, March 1, 2010 – Alfresco Software and VDEL GmbH announced a partnership under which VDEL has become a Master Distributor.
"We are very pleased to welcome VDEL as Alfresco distributor for the Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS region. We have seen significant interest in the cost-effective ECM solutions offered by Alfresco in this region and a growing demand for Alfresco Enterprise support. With its specific market knowledge and open source distribution experience, VDEL is an ideal partner to take the Alfresco Enterprise offering to market in this region," commented Denis Dorval, VP EMEA at Alfresco Software.
Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost. The company currently has more than 800 enterprise customers and has surpassed the 2.0 million downloads mark of its groundbreaking open source Enterprise Content Management platform. In 2009, Alfresco became the first open source software company to obtain U.S. Department of Defence 5015.02 records management certification.
VDEL is known in Eastern Europe, Russia, and CIS for successfully marketing, distributing and supporting innovative network and security solutions from category leaders Red Hat, JBoss, SEP, Zimbra and EnterpriseDB. VDEL covers the territory that extends over 12 different Time Zones, 30 countries and where customers all together speak more than 32 languages. Thanks to the extensive network of local partners VDEL is able to provide native language translation, localization and education, giving an individual approach and personal attention to every client, regardless of their geographical location.
"We at VDEL believe that the future belongs to open source technologies. That's why we strive to deliver the best open source solutions to our customers," said Markus Alschner, VDEL's Managing Director. "We are happy to add Alfresco, the leading open source enterprise content management system, to our product portfolio, giving our customers the winning ratio of price/performance, additionally to all the services VDEL is offering. We are proud to be chosen by Alfresco as a reliable partner and become the main Distributor for Alfresco solutions in Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS."
To find out more about Alfresco Enterprise:
- A full download 30-day trial of Alfresco Enterprise is available at: http://alfresco.com/try
- A 1-day Alfresco Enterprise cloud trial is available at: http://bit.ly/alf32cloud
About VDEL, GmbH
VDEL GmbH, headquartered in Vienna Austria (with subsidiaries in Moscow, Russia; Kiev, Ukraine; Warsaw, Poland; Minsk, Belarus; Belgrade, Serbia and Limassol, Cyprus) is the leading IT Services Distribution company in Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS countries. VDEL delivers IT services using the most advanced new technology methods, include 24 by 7 product implementation and configuration support, native language translation and localization including maintenance of updates and upgrades, education and hands-on training, certification, marketing and sales support. VDEL provides and distributes these and other related services through its local value-added partner network that helps customers increase their productivity by selecting the right vendor and open source products. For more information, please visit http://www.vdel.com.
About Alfresco
Alfresco Software is the leader in the open source enterprise content management market. The company couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform at a tenth of the cost. The Alfresco content platform uses a flexible architecture to provide document management, web content management and collaboration software to enterprise customers worldwide. Founded in 2005 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, please visit www.alfresco.com.