Alfresco (software)

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Alfresco is a collection of information management software products for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems developed using Java technology. Their primary software offering, branded as a Digital Business Platform is proprietary & a commercially licensed open source platform, supports open standards, and provides enterprise scale.

Alfresco also provides open source Community Editions as free, LGPLv3 licensed open source software. These have some default restrictions in terms of scalability and availability, e.g. there is no built-in clustering support. Quality assurance by Alfresco is limited and bug fixes are only issued for the current versions. There is a community support for the Community Edition including and independent association, the Order of the Bee.

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History

John Newton (co-founder of Documentum) and John Powell (a former COO of Business Objects) founded Alfresco Software, Inc. in 2005. Its investors include the investment firms SAP Ventures, Accel Partners and Mayfield Fund. The original technical staff consisted of principal engineers from Documentum and Oracle.

In July of 2005, Alfresco released the first version of their software.

While Alfresco's product initially focused on document management, in May, 2006, the company announced 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 October 2009, the 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report described Alfresco as a leading Java-based open source web content management system.

In 2010, Alfresco sponsored a new open-source BPM engine called Activiti.

In July 2011, Alfresco and Ephesoft announced a technology partnership to offer document capture and Content Management Interoperability Services brought together for intelligent PDF capture and search and workflow development.

In October 2011, Alfresco 4.0 was released with improvements to the user interface. The new Alfresco moved additional features from Alfresco Explorer to Alfresco Share, as Alfresco Explorer is intended to be deprecated over time.

In January 2013, Alfresco appointed Doug Dennerline, former President of SuccessFactors, former EVP of Sales at Salesforce.com, and former CEO of WebEx, as its new CEO.

In September 2014, Alfresco 5 was released with new reporting and analytics features and an overhaul of its document search tool, moving from Lucene to Solr.

In November 2016, Alfresco launched an AWS Quickstart for building an Alfresco Content Services server cluster on the AWS Cloud.

In March 2017, Alfresco 5.2 was released and rebranded as the Digital Business Platform. This included the release of the Application Development Framework with reusable Angular JS(2.0) components.

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Products

Alfresco's core Digital Business Platform offering consists of three primary products. It is designed for clients who require modularity and scalable performance. It can be deployed on-premises on servers or in the cloud using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Quick Start. A multi-tenant SaaS offering is also available.

Alfresco Content Services (ACS)

The enterprise content management (ECM) capabilities that have been a core part of Alfresco's business since its founding. It includes a central content and metadata repository, a web interface named Share, the ability to define automated business rules, and full-text indexing provided using Apache Solr.

Alfresco Process Services (APS)

The business process management (BPM) capabilities stemming from the open source Activiti project. It includes graphical design tools, business rules editors, and data integration to external business systems.

Alfresco Governance Services (AGS)

Formerly known as Alfresco Records Management, AGS is an add-on software component that provides records management functionality to address information governance requirements. Alfresco Governance Services is DoD 5015.02 certified for records management.

Alfresco Community Edition

The open source community edition of Alfresco Content Services.

Activiti

Activiti is a separate open source product that is the community edition of Alfresco Process Services.

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Usage

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

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Features

Alfresco is capable of the following:

• Document management
• Records management, including 5015.2 certification
• Image management
• Digital asset management
• Learning content management support for learning management systems (e.g. Moodle)
• LOR Learning Object Repository (edu-sharing)
• Integrated publishing
• Repository access via CIFS/SMB, FTP, WebDAV, NFS and CMIS
• Automating business processes with the embedded Activiti BPM engine
• Solr search
• Federated servers
• Multi-language support
• Portable application packaging
• Multi-platform support (officially Windows, Linux and Solaris)
• Browser-based GUI (official support for Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge)
• Desktop integration with Microsoft Office (available in enterprise version only) and LibreOffice.
• Online integration with Google Docs
• Clustering support
• Pluggable authentication: NTLM, LDAP, Kerberos, CAS
• Multiple database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database (Enterprise Edition), IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server (Enterprise Edition), MariaDB, Amazon RDS -MySQL, Amazon Aurora.

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See also

• List of content management systems
• List of collaborative software
• List of applications with iCalendar support
• Cloud collaboration
• Document collaboration
• Document-centric collaboration

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Alfresco Community Site
• Alfresco Content Services on AWS (Amazon Quickstart)
• Activiti Software Website
• Alfresco Software External Project Repositories on GitHub

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