Ronny Timmermans

2021, the year of the Ox, comes to an end. Enter the Tiger and the era of the metaverse. A time in which our physical presence becomes a shadow of our true digital identity if we are to believe Mark Zuckerberg.  (We do love react.js and https://opensource.fb.com, Mark).  Working from anywhere (WFA) in 2021 has been a cultural and value shift, much more than a technological one. We can only admire the inventors of the internet to handle 2022 workloads with TCP/IP, introduced in January 1983 in ARPAnet. Although post-covid-crisis flexibility improves our quality of life, we should...

“Consider a future device …  in which all of your books, records, and communications have been stored and engineered to be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. You now have an enlarged intimate supplement to your memory.” This is how Vannevar Bush, American engineer and Head of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during...

Last year, we addressed the rhetorical question Do workers still waste time searching for information? Depending on the (digital) nature of your business, any number between 10 to 30 % of knowledge workers’ time is spent searching for information. That time can be well spent, but it is a substantial and significant cost. If people at your company spend...

Summary TL;DR: To lower Alfresco’s total cost of ownership and increase the agility and scalability of the digital platform, Xenit launches the Alfred Suite. The Alfred Suite is a set of software components, combined with managed services, that are fully integrated into Alfresco. Alfred software components are released as open-source software under LGPL (Lesser General Public...

Last March, I attended the annual Alfresco Sales Kickoff event, held in Dublin. The aim of the event was to bring together Alfresco Top management, the Sales and Marketing teams, and key partners and share the global vision. I represented Xenit, which was the only Belgian partner that attended and sponsored the conference. Monday –...