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Open source software has evolved from its old state to a state where it can be used in large and mission-critical environment that can save the enterprise a lot in terms of cost compared to the proprietary software. This makes the open source software a good alternative to the proprietary software that you currently use in your enterprise.

Alfresco ECM

Alfresco is the leading open source enterprise content management system (ECM). Alfresco is sponsored by Alfresco Software, Inc that was founded in 2005 and is licensed under GPL license. With Alfresco Content Platform services it is possible to manage your enterprise content including:

Alfresco ECM
  • Document Management.
  • Web Content Management.
  • Records Management.
  • Image Managements.
  • Searching the content (including secure searching).

Alfresco is entirely written using Java language and adopts the latest java standards such as JSR-168, JSR-170, Web Services, and JSF 1.0. It also uses the best of breed open source technologies like Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, and jBPM for its architecture. Employing these standards and technologies and with the high quality design and implementation, Alfresco is capable of delivering top-notch ECM services and performance which can reach to handling terabytes of content.

Even more than an ECM, Alfresco can provide tools and utilities to make it much simpler to work with. For example, Alfresco provides a convenient web based interface, this makes it possible to access alfresco functionalities using any operating system and browser. Also, it provides a simple check-in/check-out version control to allow one person to modify content at a time. Searching the content repositories using alfresco is as simple as using your favorite search engine. It is also possible to integrate Alfresco with Microsoft Office suite which makes it very easy to use Alfresco as a backend for your content. Moreover, you can create your business process for any content to be added or modified to alfresco which makes it possible to control the content that goes through the enterprise. And to ease the process of integration the ECM with your portal, Alfresco provides a set of REST services to access its function remotely.

Adopting alfresco as an ECM can benefit your enterprises in many ways. First, the ownership cost of alfresco is very lower than other proprietary software. In fact, Alfresco can reduce the ECM cost up to 96% compared to proprietary ECM products like OpenText, SharePoint, and Open Text. Also, since Alfresco is built using Java this makes it possible to deploy Alfresco on any environment easily. And with its advance technology employed by Alfresco, it is possible to integrate Alfresco with your enterprise easily which limits the time needed for deploying and using Alfresco and maximize your ROI.