Bristol City Council have employed open source software in order to reduce annual costs by £70 million.

The council is employing Alfresco to develop document and record management, with the service allowing document access on the move through mobile devices and includes the ability for uses to collaborate and share information over the software.

Gavin Beckett, chief enterprise architect at Bristol City Council, said: “Alfresco offers a rich set of features in a user-friendly package with the additional bonus of being an open source platform, which means we can use it right across the board without having to spend large sums on licences.”