Alfresco announced that the availability of the Alfresco Web Content Management Preview release, which they say offers enterprise class open source Web Content Management (WCM) for today's next generation web sites.
This is a milestone for Alfresco which now offers a full Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite of collaborative document management, records management, email archiving, image management and Web Content Management. The Alfresco Web Content Management Preview release is an advanced WCM platform that includes features such as:
-- Virtualization Server -- Multi-Site Transactional Publishing -- Web Content Compliance Server -- 100% Standards Based -- High-Availability, Highly Scalable Platform
End user features include:
-- Standards-Based Forms to Create Pages - Chiba XForms -- Simple Multi-Channel XML Publishing -- Email-Based Production Workflow -- In-Context Review -- Integrated Support for Content Managers, Contributors, Reviewers, Web Designers and Application Developers in one repository -- Parallel Branching and Merging -- Dependency Management -- Pre-Built Templates and Website Components
"The speed with which we have been able to deliver our Web Content Management component validates our open source and single repository strategy," said John Newton, chief technology officer, Alfresco Software Inc. "Modern web content management is architected using Spring, Hibernate, Lucene and JSF, and built on Web Services or REST. This makes Alfresco ideal for next generation web applications."
The new server aims to have a dramatic impact on the time and cost required to deliver websites.
"Our goal was always to deliver a full ECM suite," said John Powell, CEO, Alfresco Software Inc. "We are now positioned as the only open source alternative in a $3.9 Billion ECM market that is moving away from high-priced legacy vendors."