agorum ''core'' is a

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Enterprise Content Management Enterprise content management (ECM) extends the concept of content management by adding a timeline for each content item and, possibly, enforcing processes for its creation, approval and distribution. Systems using ECM generally provide a secur ...

system by ''agorum Software GmbH'' from

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. One of the main features is the Document-Network-Share. With that the documents within the ECM are shown as a normal network share. So it is usable like any other fileserver, you can use any program, that is able to access a normal drive (office-programs, scan-programs and so on). From the users' view the benefit is, that everything is working like before. ''agorum core'' is part of the

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open source stack initiative.

History

The development of agorum ''core'' started in the year 2000. From there it has been redesigned several times to use the latest technologies. Till the end of 2007 the system had been distributed as

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. In the beginning of 2008 the decision was made, to free most parts of the software under

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.
Since the end of 2009 agorum core version 6.4.0 is available. In 2013 at the Stuttgart DMS Expo trade fair, agorum has been awarded the open source "Innovative Project Implementation of the year" in collaboration with Medneo .

Capabilities

agorum ''core'' itself is a Java (EJB)-based Software and the server part runs on most common Linux and Windows systems. The Client needs no installation. To access the server many common protocols are supported, like SMB,

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/HTTPs for the Webportal,

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for email programs,

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-Feeds for notifications. Optional there is a windows client software available, to integrate the ECM into the operating system. The system also consists of many other open source components. The installation routine offers the choice to directly install

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(

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) or

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databases.
In the commercial version of 2009 there is a support for MS SQL. The system is based on

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technologie.

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is used as the EJB application server.

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is used as full text search engine. OpenOffice.org is used to extract the text for the search index. Jasper/iReport is used as an

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system. There is also an integrated

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component, based on

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from JBoss.

Features

* Linking documents * Folder based document structure * Storing different object types (Documents, Mails, ...) * Custom metadata/attributes * Sets (stored searches) * Automatic document history * Server cycle bin * Integrated backup * Make documents unchangeable (several lock levels) * Check-In/Check-Out * Intelligent folders (performing automatic tasks on folders, like archiving, deleting, send to workflow) * Email integration * Integrated wiki * Integrated forum * TIF / PDF/A support * Integrated OCR dditional module* Notifications * Notes * Converting documents into several formats (PDF, HTML, ...) * Multilingual

Protocols/Interfaces

* CIFS/SMB * RSS-Feeds *

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-WebServices *

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* IMAP4 * SMTP * HTTP/HTTPS (Webportal) * WebDAV * Windows-Client-Integration * SSL-Encryption

Search

* Phonetic search * Wildcard search * Fulltext search * Attribut/metadata search * numeric search * Combination (Bool'sche) * Textfilter * Automatic indexing * Email indexing, including attachments * Path based search within fulltext index

Administration

* ADS (Active-Directory) – synchronisation (additional module) *

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– synchronisation (additional module) * ACL system * Users * Groups * Reports * Centralized configuration database

Integration

A major goal of the

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strategy of ''agorum core'' is the integration of other

components. The following projects are supported by a plugin: * Liferay Portal *

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* HeliumV ERPHelium V Integration
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References

External links

Website of agorum core

Download area

Support for agorum core
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