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About
Alfresco
"Alfresco
was founded in 2005 by John Newton, co-founder of Documentum® and John
Powell, former COO of Business Objects®. Its investors include the
leading investment firms Accel Partners and Mayfield Fund.
Alfresco
is the 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.
[Alfresco] 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."
[Source: http://www.alfresco.com/about/]
The five aspects covered by Alfresco are :
- Document management;
- Multimedia management (Digital Assets Management);
- Collaborative management;
- Web content management (CMS);
- Enterprise content search (ECS).
Visit the Alfresco
Web site.
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