Alfresco.com - Open Source and Effective ECM

Alfresco is an open source content management tool for enterprises (ECM) . It provides document management, records management, web content management, imaging and collaboration. It’s built for ease of use with an intelligent virtual file system and Google like search and folder browsing. It features best practice collaboration with preconfigured smart space templates, project structure and content and logic lifecycles. It also offers threaded discussions on folders and documents. Alfresco needn’t be installed on the client end and it’s got advanced security measure built in. Finally, as it is open source, the cost is thoroughly affordable. Alfresco also supports a wide range of languages.

“Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost. Our goal is to not only provide an open source offering but to surpass commercial offerings in terms of features, functionality and benefits to the user community. Alfresco is built by a team of leading members from Documentum® and Interwoven® with 15 years experience in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), including the co-founder of Documentum.”

Alfresco is clean and user friendly. It’s flexible yet structured. And being open source, it’s got an attractive price tag. Users will appreciate its robustness and its ease of use.

How easy is it to integrate Alfresco with other applications? What’s the starting price? Does that include upgrades?