The name of the base system (platform): | Open Source |
Developers: | Alfresco Software |
Technology: | EDMS |
Specific Features
Effective and simple content management in a cloud:
- The principle of multi-tenancy ("utility" model) – Alfresco is the only ECM system which maintains the principle of multi-tenancy that has huge value for cloud developments as there is an optimization of use of hardware and simplification of administration of different releases of Alfresco.
- Possibility of implementation in a cloud – now Alfresco supports different methods of implementation: from traditional implementation in your workplace before complete implementation in a cloud (from simple AMI to completely configured, fault-tolerant, Alfresco clusters with the aligned loading).
Compatibility of the class Enterprise: Module Records Management (RM) – The Alfresco RM System (certified in the U.S. Department of Defense) allows both the commercial organizations, and public institutions to satisfy the requests connected with management of business records. The module Alfresco RM open source (available since February, 2010 on Alfresco Enterprise subscription as the separate module) will give to the companies an opportunity to manage all documents and to store them in a uniform repository. It can be both lightweight content, and compatible to standard 5015.2. The price will be much the low prices of traditional similar solutions.
Support of the IMAP protocol for access to an e-mail client and archiving of email – a simple drag-and-drop feature allows users to offer colleagues and to share important email message. Transparent support of the IMAP protocol provides full access to services of a repository without installation of the client and via mobile devices. Management of a zone of community of collective work:
- Creation of content for collective use – thanks to new characteristics of Alfresco Share becomes even easier to work in commands. Now you can cooperate not only in ekstrasetyakh, but also in a cloud environment by means of the expanded moderiruyemy websites and group membership.
- The detailed user profiles – Alfresco allows users to use technologies of social networks for navigation and search of important information.
Updates of portlets are new opportunities of a dashboard (galleries of images, the master of new forms, the filter of actions) which simplify process of configuring of portals of the project under requests of end users.
- Access to a repository through Alfresco Share – using Alfresco Share users can browse both a zone of collective work, and a document management zone. To browse any of zones the client is not required to change.
- New options of navigation – now users can browse content of a repository, using folders, cloud tags, lists of categories and lists of favorites. Thus, process of search and change of content became even simpler.
- The simplified, highly effective administration system
- The policy of data storage – Alfresco allows the organizations to manage the physical centers of storage of content according to business policy within the strategy of information lifecycle management.
Thus, content can be automatically saved and moved to other storage device subsystems according to its value, requirements of compatibility and management and also relative cost of storage.
- Monitors and configuring – using these means based on the JMX standard and new subsystems of Alfresco you can administer and configure Alfresco without stopping and restart of the server.
New subsystems of transformation – OpenOffice subsystem was added. Thanks to these systems configured using JMX monitors, users will be able to control all process of transformation of files more carefully.
Performance improvement of a web content management system:
- Personalizirovaniye and and system deployment of management of web content – thanks to performance improvement improved process of placement of web content on external websites by means of highly parallel deployment and creation of websites.
- New options of deployment – with new release the organizations had an opportunity to place content in Alfresco DM repository. These repositories can be used for work with the personalized content or to be clusted for increase in expansibility and simplification of administration.