Alfresco tagged posts

July 31, 2017 Posted in Blogs

Alfresco is a well-designed open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. The initial release of Alfresco was in 2005. Comparing IBM FileNet (1980s), Oracle WebCenter Content (1980s, Stellent UCM), OpenText (1990s) and Documentum (1990s, Acquired by OpenText in 2016), Alfresco is quite new, which allows Alfresco build on completely new technology stacks. There’s no doubt that Alfresco is one of the best designed ECM system from architecture, performance and Web UI perspectives.

Alfresco is designed to run on Alfresco Application Server, as a series web applications, including alfresco.war, share.war, solr.war. Alfresco.war provides the platform services to mobile access (through REST APIs). Share.war offers Web UI...

June 30, 2017 Posted in Blogs, ECM

Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) is a service-oriented mode, where service provider provides content on demand to the content consumer as a service which is licensed under subscription. Many research institutions adopt this mode to provide services on line, such as Gartner, Forrester and Infotech, etc.

The core digital assets are stored in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. ECM manages the authoring, versioning, approval workflow, archiving and content retention policies, etc. Web Content Management (WCM) / Content Management System (CMS) is in charge of presenting these content on line.

In previous career life, I experienced multiple combinations between ECM and WCM in different organizations...

December 20, 2014 Posted in Blogs

Nowadays, there are quite a few content management systems available on the market. Almost every big vendor has their own solutions in this arena. IBM got FileNet in early days, HP paid $10B for Autonomy, Oracle has its UCM (acquired from Stellent), Adobe acquired CQ from Day Software.

Except all these big players, Alfresco offers quality open source suite for enterprise content management needs. The solution is impressive. It doesn’t require high-power clustered servers to run, alternatively, you may even install and play with it on your laptop. The implementation of Alfresco presents some big trends in IT industry: quick implementation, modularized, integrated some market-approved products, such as Apache Tomcat, PostgreSQL and LibreOffice (a sibling of OpenOffice), etc.

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