News | September 27, 2006

Web Content Management: Alfresco Launches Enterprise Class Open Source Web Content Management

Source: Rivet Logic Corporation

Alfresco Software Inc., the first and leading provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that the availability of the Alfresco Web Content Management Preview release. This release offers enterprise class open source Web Content Management (WCM) for today's next generation web sites. This is a major milestone for Alfresco which now offers a full Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite of collaborative document management, records management, email archiving, image management and Web Content Management.

"Virgin Money is recognized as offering superior value and customer service," said David Scarisbrick, technical program manager, Virgin Money. "Our open source strategy has enabled Virgin to have a leading platform and more cost effective infrastructure for next generation Web 2.0 applications. We see Alfresco Web Content Management offering us the web content platform to implement our strategy."

The Alfresco Web Content Management Preview release is an advanced WCM platform that includes features such as:

  • Virtualization Server
  • Multi-Site Transactional Publishing
  • Web Content Compliance Server
  • 100% Standards Based
  • High-Availability, Highly Scalable Platform
End user features include:
  • Standards-Based Forms to Create Pages - Chiba XForms
  • Simple Multi-Channel XML Publishing
  • Email-Based Production Workflow
  • In-Context Review
  • Integrated Support for Content Managers, Contributors, Reviewers, Web Designers and Application Developers in one repository
  • Parallel Branching and Merging
  • Dependency Management
  • Pre-Built Templates and Website Components
"The speed with which we have been able to deliver our Web Content Management component validates our open source and single repository strategy," said John Newton, chief technology officer, Alfresco Software Inc. "Modern web content management is architected using Spring, Hibernate, Lucene and JSF, and built on Web Services or REST. This makes Alfresco ideal for next generation web applications."

The new server will have a dramatic impact on the time and cost required to deliver websites. It will also be able to deliver the compliance requirements needed in modern regulated areas such as financials services, process industries, publishing and government.

"Our goal was always to deliver a full ECM suite," said John Powell, CEO, Alfresco Software Inc. "We are now positioned as the only open source alternative in a $3.9 Billion ECM market that is moving away from high-priced legacy vendors."

About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software Inc. is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfresco.com.