Introducing Alfresco 3.0 Enterprise Edition – Product Review
Alfresco Web Content Management
Join Ian Howells, Alfresco’s Chief Marketing Officer, and Mike Farman, Director of Product Management, in this informative product review.
Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 includes:
- Microsoft Office SharePoint protocol support requiring no additional client installation
- Alfresco Surf platform for building dynamic, REST-oriented web applications and collaborative web sites
- RESTful API delivering content and collaboration services for customizing and developing Alfresco applications
- Preview of Alfresco Share, a new social computing application
- Document library which scales to over 100 million documents
Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 builds upon the solid foundation that previous versions of Alfresco have presented.
Alfresco is still 5 times faster, and up to 10 times cheaper than proprietary Enterprise Content Management solutions. But version 3.0 goes a step further. Alfresco 3.0 includes Alfresco Share – giving you Facebook features for the Enterprise.
Key features of Alfresco Share include:
- Collaboration areas for Teams, Projects, Communities of Interest
- Personal and Site Dashboards
- Activity Service
- Social Tagging
- Thumbnails and Previews
- Rich Personal Profiles
- People Finder
- Site Finder
Alfresco 3.0 is strongly positioned as the Open Alternative to Microsoft SharePoint:
- Not Microsoft Only
- Use your existing Database, OS, App Server, Portal
- Plug-compatible with Office
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership
- Re-use existing non-Microsoft hardware and software
- Use existing development & DBA skills
- Scale to enterprise on much fewer machines
The social computing features for the workplace include:
- Drag-and-drop layout
- Web 2.0 controls
- Community-based features
- Browse by tags
- WYSIWYG editing
- Publish to external blogs
- Wiki and calendars
Tags: 3.0, API, collaboration, dashboard, library, office, REST, share, sharepoint, Surf, tagging, TCO, thumbnails, web 2.0
