The Alfresco is an open source tool for Web Content Management based on Java. Organizations or institutions are enabled with rapid and effective development of dynamic application configurable in both Internet and Intranet.Alfresco helps to shorten the web development cycle and lower the cost of ownership.The components when customized are easily reusable as content is separated from format. New and upcoming technologies can be seamlessly integrated with Alfresco using object based API.Even being open source Alfresco is inline with the commercial Content Management Tools such as Documentum and Sharepoint.
Briefly Alfresco features are defined below:
- Work in Collaboration – Various team members or emplyoees can collaboratively take part in project and complete an workflow.
- Alfresco Web Editor – It is a Spring Surf based application with capability of in-context editing.
- Alfresco Share – It is a browser based collaboration and content management platform with various web 2.0 features for imprved interactivity.
- Microsoft Office – Using the Microsoft SharePoint protocol, users can upload and modify content in Alfresco from withi standard MS Office tools.
- Enterprise Business Process – Alfresco supports business processes management based on jBPM framework enabling users to create work flows to design a business prcess within an enterprise.
Architectural advantages:
- Multi-tier Deployment – editorial and delivery environments to meet Enterprise security, redundancy and scalability requirements.
- Transfer and Deployment Services – Easily publish content between multiple environments using transfer and deployment services.
- Flexibility and Scalability – Add more Alfresco as your requirements change. Using repository clustering, flexible deployment and transfer services and web infrastructures can be defined and built that can be scaled to meet future business demands.
