Alfresco (software)

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Alfresco Software Inc.

Developed by	Alfresco Software, Inc.
Latest release	Enterprise Edition 3.0 / 31 October 2008; 33 days ago
Preview release	Labs 3b / 10 September 2008; 84 days ago
Written in	Java and JSP
OS	Cross-platform
Type	ECM
License	GPL 2 with linking exception ^[1]
Website	http://www.alfresco.com/

Alfresco is a free software, open source, open standards, enterprise scale content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Its design is geared towards users who require a high degree of modularity and scalable performance. Alfresco includes a content repository, an out-of-the-box web portal framework for managing and using standard portal content, a CIFS interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web content management system capable of virtualizing webapps and static sites via Apache Tomcat, Lucene indexing, and jBPM workflow. The Alfresco system is developed using Java technology.

1 History
2 Usage
3 Alfresco Features
4 Awards
5 See also
6 External links
7 References

History

Alfresco was founded in 2005 by John Newton, co-founder of Documentum and John Powell, former COO of Business Objects. Its investors include the investment firms SAP, Accel Partners and Mayfield Fund. The original technical staff consisted of principal engineers from Documentum, and Oracle. While Alfresco's product was initially focused on document management, in May 2006, it announced^[2] its intention to expand into web content management by acquiring senior technical and managerial staff from Interwoven; this included its VP of Web Content Management, two principal engineers, and a member of its user interface team. In 2007, Alfresco hired the principal sales engineer from Vignette.

In addition to its main website^[3], Alfresco's software may also be downloaded from SourceForge.

Usage

Enterprise content management for documents, web, records, images, and collaborative content development.

Alfresco Features

Alfresco is capable of the following:

Document Management
Web Content Management (including full webapp & session virtualization)
Repository-level versioning (similar to Subversion)
Transparent overlays (similar to unionfs)
Records Management
Image Management
Auto-generated XForms with AJAX support
Integrated Publishing
Repository access via CIFS/SMB, FTP and WebDAV
jBPM workflow
Lucene search
Federated servers
Multi-language support
Portable application packaging
Multi-platform support (officially Windows, Linux and Solaris)
Browser-based GUI (official support for Internet Explorer and Firefox)
Desktop integration with Microsoft Office
Clustering support

Awards

2007
- InfoWorld: Best of Open Source Applications BOSSIE Award Winner
- Computerworld Honors Program: Finalist
- Sand Hill Group: Top Software Innovator
- Network World: Top Ten Enterprise Software Companies to watch
- Gartner: “Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2007”
- World Economic Forum: Technology Pioneer of 2007
2006
- Red Herring: Red Herring 100 Europe
- EContent: EContent 100
- KM World: Trend-Setting Product Award
2005
- OSBC: Emerging Elite Award

External links

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