At Alfresco, large five and six figure deals are concluded by a customer service staff.
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"Welcome to forum alfresco, " he quips in a typical bit of Ivy League drollery.
The vibe is relaxed but sophisticated head here at dusk for alfresco dinner and drinks.
The sales process essentially happens as the customer tries out the software, at no cost to Alfresco.
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Also, the company treated the whole team to an alfresco fine dining experience so they could celebrate the space.
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The largest of the commercial open source application companies like Alfresco, the enterprise content management vendor, are smaller than that.
Open-source firms are flourishing in databases (Ingres, for instance), business intelligence (JasperSoft), customer-relationship management and other business applications (SugarCRM, Alfresco).
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Privacy and alfresco bathing unite at this Four Seasons Five-Star resort.
Hadoop is neither a community-based open source project like Linux or Drupal nor a commercial open core company like Alfresco, or JBoss.
Companies like Alfresco in the Enterprise Content Management space have perfected a model in which a full version of the software is available for download.
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Programs sold by Alfresco, EMC Documentum and others let firms keep tabs on their digital content, classify it and define who has access to it.
For larger deals, Alfresco and other companies have direct sales staff.
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Then it is back to the farmhouse for an alfresco asado (barbecue) and a quick hammock siesta before you hit the trails again for a few whiplash-inducing hours on horseback.
Alfresco was about to launch new tablet-oriented features for their flagship content-management product and were in the process of conducting a survey on tablet use among their customers.
But the pop-up shop does have a rugged feel, because it's alfresco, and continues to sell Shanghai Tang's pricey Chinese-style haute couture as well as provide the label's well-respected bespoke tailoring services.
At the last minute, you decide to dine alfresco, and soon you are following a rose-petal-strewn path lit by hurricane lamps to an intimate table on the Queen's Lawn facing the palace.
As the sun sets slowly over Hoboken, make for the Hudson River Park, where classics such as The Wizard of Oz are screened alfresco beneath the stars, and three water-themed playgrounds provide the perfect antidote to childhood (and parental) meltdowns.
Companies as diverse as activity streaming platform SocialCast (recently bought by VMWare), IBM, start-ups like Huddle, Box, behemoth SAP, Microsoft, Moxie, Jive, CISCO, Nortel, old platforms like SocialText, old web platforms like Broadvision, Alfresco from open source, are competing for attention in this space.
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As for the visitors they've welcomed into their world, everything one might need is on hand: The nursery has enough greenery to kit out an entire garden, while the shop sells furniture, gardening tools, baskets, glassware and even the china one eats off of alfresco.
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