Alfresco - Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Alfresco reduces your ECM costs by up to 96% compared to proprietary systems like Documentum, Open Text and SharePoint. It’s as simple to use as a shared drive or SharePoint and does not lock you in to a proprietary stack.
Alfresco is the leading open source enterprise content management system built by the most experienced team in the industry drawn from Documentum, Vignette and Interwoven. Twenty years of experience drove us to believe that the Enterprise Content Management industry was driven by:
- High Cost — Application driven purchases with a high up-front investment and per user pricing
- High Complexity — Long rollout cycles and complexity resulting in software either not being implemented or used
- Lack of Customer Control — Proprietary control preventing choice and ability to switch to other vendors
For these reasons the vast majority of people do not use ECM systems but instead work with shared drives and email to create, share and store content.
How is Alfresco Different? In the current economic climate organizations need to do more with less. Alfresco’s passion is to offer a solution that focuses on:
- Low Cost — A low cost, open source, subscription model with minimal upfront investment that can be driven out of operating expense (op ex) as opposed to capital expense (cap ex)
- Simplicity — Rapid deployment to deliver immediate business value and rapid application development using pre-built components and lightweight scripting
- Choice — Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by reusing existing hardware, software and skills. No lock-in to one ECM vendor or one stack, so when a vendor tries to dramatically increase maintenance fees you have a choice to go elsewhere
Document Management
Overpriced, overly complex Enterprise Content Management has been commoditized and consumerized. Real people want the simplicity and familiarity of the tools they use day-in, day-out: shared drives and Microsoft Office. Alfresco Document Management captures, shares and retains content, enabling users to version, search and simply build their own content applications - all with the tools they use today.
Web Content Management
Overpriced, overly complex web content management (WCM) suites, bought in the days of the ".com bubble" when money was no object, have been commoditized and consumerized. Real people want the simplicity and familiarity of the tools they use day-in, day-out: the mass of content in Wikipedia, the freshness of content in Digg, the ease of configurability and reuse of Google gadgets or Facebook pages and the low cost scalability of Web 2.0.
Alfresco WCM engages customers through next-generation sites enabling mass contributions from internal and external users, simple configuration via reusable Web Scripts and low cost massive scalability that uses commodity software and hardware.
Collaboration
Overpriced, overly complex collaboration has been commoditized and consumerized. People want the simplicity and familiarity of the tools they use day-in, day-out - searching in Google, reading in Wikipedia, writing in a Blog, finding people in Facebook, being notified in a simple RSS reader, viewing friends activities in Facebook and bringing this all together in iGoogle. Alfresco Share delivers all of this functionality for enterprise users, projects and teams.
Alfresco Share is built on the Alfresco enterprise-class document repository and delivers out-of-the-box collaborative content management. It simplifies capturing, sharing and retrieval of information across virtual teams. Team or project members can rapidly find relevant content, experts, look at past or similar projects and keep on top of any relevant changes to make them more efficient.
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