Alfresco offers a flexible, scalable content management platform that combines open source advantages with a powerful, enterprise-class engine.

Alfresco is a leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. 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.

The company's goal is to not only provide an open source offering but to surpass commercial offerings such as Documentum or Microsoft® SharePoint® in terms of features, functionality and benefits to the user community.

Alfresco offers true Open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management, and Imaging.

Alfresco Product Features

• An improved search engine
• Document Library includes thumbnails, flash document viewer, bulk upload of content, meta-data, tags, multi-select and RSS feeds
• Complex Business Rules
• Creation of content using familiar tools such as MS Office, wikis, blogs
• Indexing and full-text search
• Scheduled jobs and actions
• Full audit control
• Partnership Working
• Secure collaboration for joint procurement
• Secure Document Distribution
• Easy Mobile Access
• Email Management
• Records Management
• Repository access via CIFS/SMB, FTP, WebDAV and CMIS
• Full Service Oriented Architecture using Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, MyFaces, JSR 168, JSR 170 and JSE5
• High Availability - Distributed content synchronization, Failover Manager
• Clustering - Fully Distributed Cache
• Zero Footprint Client
• Benchmark Certification - 10 million document repository testing
• Single Sign-On through NTLM or LDAP
• Library Services - Version Control, Locking
• Extensible Transformation Engine
• jBPM Integration - Complex workflow support with JavaScript integration
• Kofax Integration - Kofax release script support