Alfresco 1.2 Network - 100% Open Source
Platform Overview
The Alfresco Network is the leading open source alternative for Enterprise Content Management. Across the board, corporations, Governments and other organizations are updating their purchasing models to get the benefit of open source. The major drivers are cost and the use of an open architecture and standards.
The Enterprise Networks offer:
- Certified Stacks
- Maintenance, Updates and Patch support
- Customer Support – Problem Resolution, Compatibility and Migration Advice
- Customer Portal – Information, Bug Tracking and Case Tracking
- Performance Tuning Advice
- Indemnity and Warranty
The Community Newtork is unsupported and has no indemnity or warranty.
Architecture
- Full Service Oriented Architecture using Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, MyFaces, JSR 168, JSR 170 and JSE5
- High Availability – Master Slave Distributed Synchronization – Within a Data Centre through 2 phase commit or remotely between 2 sites through replication
- High Availability Manager – Failover Manager
- Clustering – Fully Distributed Cache
- Zero Footprint Client
- Benchmark Certification
Administration
- Simple Installation
- Invite User Facility
- Import/Export
- Security and User Management with Users, Groups and Roles
- Document Security in Web Client
- Upgrade and Migration Administration
- Full Export/Import of Whole Repository
- Single Sign-On through NTLM
- LDAP – Authenticate against LDAP Services and Access LDAP Directory Services
- Zero-Time Upgrade for Development Extensions
Standards Support
- Web Services, JSR 168, JSR 170 Level 2, MyFaces, WebDAV, DeltaV, SQL, RSS
Customization
- Server Customization – JavaScript Actions
- Client Customization – Open Pluggable Framework
- Simple Extensible User Interface – Dialog Wizard Framework
- Simple Menu Configuration
- Templating – Simply Develop a New User Interface to a Space or Document by Applying a Template
- One Customization Model for Linux and Microsoft Windows
Library Services
- Check-In/Out - Minor and Major Version Control
- Auditing – Who Created, Who Updated, When Created, When Updated
- Document Cross Linking – Across multiple spaces
Data Management and Transformation Engine
- Transformation – e.g. Word to PDF, PowerPoint to Flash
- Content Streaming
- Extensible Transformation Engine
Content Contribution
- Native Application Contribution
- Virtual File System making ECM as simple as a Shared drive
- CIFS URL to Access Web Client with Kerberos Support
- CIFS Briefcase Synchronization
Team Collaboration
- Space Wizard – Best Practice Knowledge Pack of Folder Structure, Content, Templates, url’s and Aspects
- Forum Support – Threaded Discussions
- Customizable Email templates
- Simple Email Based Workflow – Embedded URL “approve/reject”
- Email Change Notification
Integrated Workflow
- Integrated Workflow, Document Management, Security and Document Status
- Compliance - Secure Document Lifecycle Management
Content Categorization
- Automatic Meta-Data Extraction from all Interfaces
- Auto Categorization
Advanced Search
- Combined Meta-Data, Content, Location, Object Type and Multi-Category Search
- Saved Searches
User Interface
- Simple Out-of-the-Box User Interface
- Open User Interface - JSR-168 and Web Services