Alfresco is the leading open source enterprise content management system built by the most experienced team in the industry drawn from Documentum®, Vignette® and Interwoven®. Twenty years of experience drove us to believe that the Enterprise Content Management industry was driven by:
For these reasons the vast majority of people do not use ECM systems but instead work with shared drives and email to create, share and store content.
In the current economic climate organizations need to do more with less. Alfresco’s passion is to offer a solution that focuses on:
Overpriced, overly complex Enterprise Content Management has been commoditized and consumerized. Real people want the simplicity and familiarity of the tools they use day-in, day-out: shared drives and Microsoft Office.
Alfresco Document Management captures, shares and retains content, enabling users to version, search and simply build their own content applications - all with the tools they use today.
The Alfresco repository is the same as a shared drive. So out-of-the box you can keep using the authoring tools you know and like, from Microsoft Office to Open Office, Dreamweaver or AutoCAD, with no desktop installation or retraining. You just get what you want and your company wants - the ability to save, version, share, search and audit.
Alfresco integrates with Microsoft Office and Open Office. So you can continue to work in your office environment with no retraining. You just get what you want and your company wants - the ability to save, version, share, search, audit with simple workflow integration.
Alfresco turns the simple shared drive into a virtual file system where, through simple wizards, you can create the content applications you need. If you drag a document into a folder, you can start a workflow, perhaps converting the document to another format, moving it to another folder or notifying a set of users via email. Or the workflow might even extract properties, such as the author's name or other keywords, from the document so that you can use them to search for the document later. You just get the application you or your department need, all as simply as configuring an email rule.
Overpriced, overly complex web content management (WCM) suites, bought in the days of the ".com bubble" when money was no object, have been commoditized and consumerized. Real people want the simplicity and familiarity of the tools they use day-in, day-out: the mass of content in Wikipedia, the freshness of content in Digg, the ease of configurability and reuse of Google gadgets or Facebook pages and the low cost scalability of Web 2.0.
Alfresco WCM engages customers through next-generation sites enabling mass contributions from internal and external users, simple configuration via reusable Web Scripts and low cost massive scalability that uses commodity software and hardware.
Large teams can contribute via simple web forms or through a shared drive by using their desktop tool of choice. Users and groups can preview and test changes through personal preview of web site updates. The wisdom of crowds is managed through whole-site versioning and rollback.
A lightweight web application construction and delivery platform that brings the power of Alfresco web scripting into the presentation tier. Focused on ease-of-use, Surf enables the rapid creation of next-generation, productivity-focused web applications designed to deliver your content to web sites and web users. Surf introduces presentation UI elements like pages, templates, components, chrome and themes. Design site navigation, page layout and on-screen gadgets entirely through scripting, not even requiring a server restart. Provision a rich user experience to your end users based on Yahoo! UI, Adobe Flex or your choice of client-side framework.
Web site publishing supports multi-tier deployment architectures. Content can be transactionally deployed to static content servers or Alfresco runtime repositories providing complete architectural flexible for your web farm.
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