Zero Footprint Content Management
Traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems were designed a decade ago, leaving them with cumbersome interfaces and legacy technology.
Alfresco is built on modern, service oriented technologies and standards from this decade, such as Spring, Hibernate, Lucene and Web Services, JSR-168, JSR-170 and MyFaces. These help to dramatically bring down the cost and complexity of both implementation and use of these systems.
The company is lead by a team of content management veterans including the co-founder of Documentum.The Alfresco ECM solution is designed for small to mid-sized enterprises and departments in Global 1000 organizations that want a system that is easy for end-users to use while also being simple-to-install and flexible for developers to create new and customized content applications.
"Informa has over 7000 employees in 159 offices in 40 countries. We were looking for a flexible, cost-effective system that could meet the diverse requirements of our business," said Bob Hecht, VP - Content Strategy for Informa.
"The success of the current project will hinge on ease-of-use and configurability. We determined that the Alfresco approach is an excellent fit for our user requirements and it's cutting edge technical architecture will provide us the flexibility and power to out-perform the traditional ECM market.""Thanks to the increasing corporate regulation as well as the exponential growth of electronic documents, content management has emerged as a 'must have' application," said Alfresco CEO John Powell. "The problem is, those companies that have installed complex content management systems in the past, today find that they are underutilized thanks to complex interfaces and large feature-sets that do not meet the needs of today's enterprise. We built Alfresco to fix those problems."Alfresco uses the Microsoft CIFS interface, which enables users to treat content just as they would a Microsoft Windows shared file drive. Unlike other interfaces, CIFS enables users to take work offline and synchronize it when reconnecting.
It also allows applications that will only work with mounted drives or non-networked file systems to work natively with the Alfresco repository. These can include a user's native editing tool or a corporate application.Alfresco announced the availability of both a free open source "Community Network" and a series of fee-based support networks. Alfresco has designed several levels of network support to meet the specific needs of the organization and enterprise using the product.
These include:
-- Community Network: Free open source downloadable Enterprise Content Management system supported by a large and active community of open source developers;
-- Developer Network: Enables developers to gain access to the latest technology and develop against a certified, supported version of the product;
-- Professional Network: Designed for small enterprises or departments in Global 1000 organizations and layers in additional security functionality and support;
-- Enterprise Network: Designed for the Global 1000 offering support and functionality that includes advanced security features such as single sign-on and mission critical features such as clustering, failover and advanced caching. This is priced to allow for unlimited seats.
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