Alfresco Enterprise Content Management – Benefits

100% Open Source

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost. Our goal is to not only provide an open source offering but to surpass commercial offerings in terms of features, functionality and benefits to the user community. Alfresco is built by a team of leading members from Documentum® and Interwoven® with 15 years experience in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), including the co-founder of Documentum.

The Benefits of Using Alfresco

Ease-of-Use

Developer Productivity

Best-Practice Collaboration

Administrator Productivity

Advanced Search/Knowledge Management

Distributed Architecture

Open Source

The cost, complexity and lack of portal integration of traditional ECM systems prevent them being rolled out to the enterprise successfully. End users turn to the shared drive for simplicity. This causes content to go uncontrolled, unaudited and undiscovered.

“Open Source changes the whole cost profile of Enterprise Content Management”

Patsy Drake, IT Director, Reed Managed Services plc.

“Blaine calculated that he'd need a document management system that could handle 1.2 terabytes of customer data a year. Since many of the documents needed to be held for compliance reasons for seven years, he'd need at least a 10-terabyte system”

Myron Blaine, System Architect, Boise Cascade, InformationWeek, April 2006

Alfresco have integrated state-of-the-art open source and Java technology such as Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, MyFaces, JSR-168, JSR-170 and web services into a simple-to-use, extensible, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. The intelligent repository provides out-of-the-box portal integration and full content control with integrated document management, security, document status and workflow. This allows Alfresco to turn your file system into a simple to use, compliant, auditable repository.

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Specifications

Operating System

  • Linux
  • MacOS
  • UNIX
  • Microsoft Windows

Database

  • Any database supported by Hibernate, including:
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft SQL Server

Application Server

  • JBoss Application Server
  • Apache Tomcat
  • J2SE 5.0 (JRE 5.0)

Browser

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer

Portal

  • JBoss Portal
  • Liferay Portal
  • JSR-168

Languages

  • Wide variety including:
  • Chinese
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Russian
  • Spanish

Technologies Used

  • Java
  • Spring Aspect-Oriented Framework
  • ACEGI – Aspect-Oriented Security Framework
  • MyFaces JSF Implementation
  • Hibernate ORM Persistence
  • Lucene Text Search Engine
  • JLAN
  • JBoss Application Server
  • JBoss Portal
  • POI File Format Conversion
  • PDFBox – PDF Conversion
  • OpenOffice
  • MySQL

Supported Interfaces

  • CIFS/SMB Microsoft File Share Protocol
  • JSR-168 Portlet Specification
  • JSR-127 Java Server Faces
  • FTP
  • WebDAV
  • Web Services

Services – Certified and Supported

  • Support
  • Maintenance and Upgrades
  • Training
  • Consulting
  • The Confidence and Guarantee that only comes from the Experts who built the Product

Product Versions

  • Community
  • Small Business
  • Enterprise