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Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:44pm EST

Formtek and Alfresco Partner to Introduce Open Source Enterprise ContentManagement Solutions to the Industrial Market

CONCORD, Calif., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Formtek, Inc. today announced analliance agreement with Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in open sourceenterprise content management (ECM). The Agreement establishes Formtek as anAlfresco Gold Systems Integration Partner.

Formtek has over twenty years of experience implementing ECM solutions insome of the most demanding environments, including aerospace, defense,engineering and manufacturing. Formtek's expertise includes meeting thecomplex requirements associated with managing engineering drawings and othertechnical information. With this partnership, Formtek's Professional Servicesgroup will assist clients with implementing Alfresco's open source enterprisecontent management software solution to meet sophisticated document andrecords management requirements.

"For many organizations, their drawings, technical documentation and otherrecords represent their most important information assets," said Dennis M.Scanlon, Formtek's President and Chief Operating Officer. "For organizations,both large and small, that desire an open source ECM solution, Formtek has theexperience and implementation methodology to help them securely and reliablycontrol these critical assets."

"Alfresco is delighted to be working with such an experienced andprofessional company as Formtek," said John Powell, CEO and co-founder,Alfresco Software. "Formtek will bring their successful track record inimplementing ECM in the industrial market segment to the table, and we plan towork very closely with them to provide our mutual customers with an ECMsolution that both meets complex document and records management requirements,and is also sensibly priced."

About Alfresco Software, Inc.

Alfresco Software, Inc. is the first and leading open source alternativefor enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the powerof open source to the enterprise content management market, enablingunprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietarysystems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes theco-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects,John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more information, go tohttp://www.alfresco.com

About Formtek Inc.

For over two decades, Formtek has been providing mission-criticalEnterprise Document and Content Management solutions and services to some ofthe most demanding industrial operations in the world. Our capabilities andexperience, particularly in the areas of engineering drawing management,technical document management, and secure collaboration, have helped bothsmall organizations as well as large global enterprises manage their mostimportant information assets. Formtek solutions solve real, day-to-daydocument management problems for worldwide customers in manufacturing,aerospace, defense, telecommunication, utility, and government. For moreinformation, please visit http://www.formtek.com, or contactsales@formtek.com.SOURCE Formtek, Inc.Dennis Scanlon of Formtek, Inc., +1-925-459-0480, dscanlon@formtek.com; orPatricia Colby of Page One PR for Alfresco Software, Inc., +1-415-875-7494,patricia@pageonepr.com



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