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Alfresco Software Inc., a provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, has announced at JavaOne and AIIM Alfresco 1.3. The latest version, which is 100 percent open source for both the Alfresco Community Network and the Alfresco Enterprise Network, is designed to be a simple, scalable platform for developing true enterprise content management (ECM) applications.
Alfresco 1.3 offers new features and functions that simplify development of new applications in such areas as Web content management and records compliance, including:
- Simple server configuration with server-based JavaScript methods and actions, making it possible for even novice programmers to add business logic close to the content for security and reusability.
- Simple client configuration with an extensible user interface framework, enabling pluggable components to the Alfresco Web client. This makes possible new applications such as task management, AJAX-based tools, blogs, wikis and other application components.
- Records management capabilities for retention policies, archival, scheduling, timed events and life cycle actions to provide open source implementations of records management.
- Extended validation and integrity tools that allow for modeling of content management control requirements, including integrity constraints and time-based actions for deletion, archival or workflow review.
- The zero-client Microsoft Shared File System interface (CIFS) has been extended to provide direct Web-based access from within Windows Explorer.
These have been shown to deliver 80 percent reduction in development time and reduce upgrade time for customizations to zero. New types of ECM applications can be created with less development resources in a fraction of the time.
Community and Network: 100 Percent Open Source
Both the Alfresco Community Network and Enterprise Network are 100 percent open source, so the same functionality is available across all product lines. Customers have the option of purchasing support, consulting, integration and training through Alfresco. What's more, the Enterprise Network is fully tested for scalability and is released on a quarterly basis, enabling developers and administrators to work within a regular update schedule.
This approach enables the customer to get the benefit of open source in the short-term-low-risk trial with easy access to source code, product details and roadmap-and also in the long-term by having the flexibility to stay with enterprise support or move to a community model with no loss of functionality and no code change requirements.
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