Unlike other vendors in the market that have grown their product sets by acquisition, Alero’s capabilities are delivered as modular, integrated services of the framework instead of independent products that have to be installed, configured, and managed separately. Customers can buy and use only what they need. The advantage is clear: a consistent architecture that simplifies development and dramatically reduces deployment, maintenance and support.

Alero, in a single product (framework), provides a comprehensive set of pre-built repository, content, process, integration, security, and event services that can be applied to any data accessed by the product, delivering a comprehensive, uniform development environment that addresses most of the information requirements demanded by today's development and integration initiatives.

Following is a brief description of the integrated services provided with the product.

• Repository services implement the enterprise content management capabilities of the product, including capture, document imaging, document management, content storage management, records management, import and WebDAV support.

• Content services implement services that are common to all the underlying repositories integrated by Alero, including federated searches, integrated views, and notification.

• Process services implement the business process management capabilities of the product, including the BPM engine and web-based applications for designing, simulating, monitoring, tracing, and viewing processes.

• Integration services implement the enterprise content integration and enterprise information integration capabilities of the product, including adapters for databases, file systems, business applications, and standards-based.

• Security services implement the security capabilities of the product, including proprietary and LDAP-based security and electronic signature management.

• Event services implement the event management capabilities of the product, including Audit and Trail.

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These integrated services provide tangible benefits that help us, our partners, and our customers to differentiate from other vendors and solutions in the same markets.

• Unlike many vendors in the market that have grown by acquisition and provide many of these services as different products (many times with different architectures, management tools, securities, etc.), adding complexity, time, costs, and risks to any solution; in Alero's SOA architecture, each of these services is a set of services of the product. In other words, Alero is a single, modular, uniform framework under one consistent architecture, where all the services (repository, content, process, integration, security and event) are part of the product and can be turned on and off with a simple license key. Imagine being able to add all these services to a solution in just a simple installation versus having to perform multiple different installations.

• Although Alero services can be used, and purchased, independently to meet specific requirements, when used together, they deliver a synergy of benefits previously unavailable to enterprises: a comprehensive ECM, BPM, ECI, and EII capabilities all rolled up in one consistent solution under one consistent architecture.

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