Alfresco, the open platform for content management, has added two partners to its growing Australian channel.

Increasing Alfresco’s family of local partners to four, the addition of Permeance Technologies and Androgogic, provides the company with greater reach across state and vertical markets.

Perth-based Permeance Technologies joinsAlfresco as a systems integrator focused on open technologies, boasting a team of experts that span the full lifecycle of all Content Management, Enterprise Portal and Development projects.

According to Barry Costin, Sales Director for Alfresco APAC, “Permeance’s expertise in content management, coupled with its sales and delivery capabilities in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney, means it can utilise the value of Alfresco’s ECM platform to provide high performance business systems to customers – either integrated with the Liferay open source portal technology also sold by Permeance,  or as a separate offering to solve a multitude of content management and delivery problems. ”

Shayne Tanner, Director of Sales at Permeance said, “Right now is the time for enterprise open source to shine. Interoperability, open technology, ownership and ‘unlock us from the vendor’, is what I hear on a daily basis. Alfresco sits nicely in our stable of open technology solutions."

Alfresco has also signed Androgogic, a Sydney-based provider of educational technology strategy and systems.
Androgogic has a long history in educational technology installations, and in implementing the Moodle Learning Management System used widely across Australia and the world.

Alfresco has plans to double its technical support team in coming months and will add direct sales and solution engineering headcount.

“Our business model is fundamentally partner driven with around 80% of all transactions done through partners, and that won’t change. Our focus is still very much on building a partner ecosystem that provides us with complete geographic coverage across Australia and New Zealand, so in the coming quarters we will look at appointing additional partners in Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra. With a healthy business pipeline on the east coast, we could also sustain another one or two partners in Sydney and Melbourne,” said  Costin.