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Alfresco Software is a collection of information management software products for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems developed by Alfresco Software Inc. using Java technology. The software, branded as a Digital Business Platform is principally a proprietary & a commercially licensed open source platform, supports open standards, and provides
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scale. There are also open source Community Editions available licensed under
LGPLv3 The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own ...
.


History

John Newton (co-founder of
Documentum Documentum is an enterprise content management platform, now owned by OpenText, as well as the name of the software company that originally developed the technology. EMC acquired Documentum for $1.7 billion in December, 2003. The Documentum pl ...
) and John Powell (a former COO of
Business Objects A business object is an entity within a multi-tiered software application that works in conjunction with the data access and business logic layers to transport data. For example, a "Manager" would be a ''business object'' where its attributes c ...
) founded Alfresco Software, Inc. in 2005. In July 2005, Alfresco released the first version of their software. Alfresco initially focused on document management, in May 2006, the company announced its intention to expand into web content management by acquiring senior technical and managerial staff from
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; this included its VP of Web Content Management, two principal engineers, and a member of its user-interface team. In October 2009, the 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report described Alfresco as a “leading Java-based open source web content management system”. In 2010, Alfresco sponsored a new
open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
BPM engine called Activiti. In July 2011, Alfresco and Ephesoft announced a technology collaboration to offer document capture and
Content Management Interoperability Services Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is an open standard that allows different content management systems to inter-operate over the Internet. Specifically, CMIS defines an abstraction layer for controlling diverse document manage ...
brought together for intelligent
PDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems ...
capture and search and workflow development. In January 2013, Alfresco appointed Doug Dennerline, former President of SuccessFactors, former EVP of Sales at
Salesforce.com Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides customer relationship management (CRM) software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, an ...
, and former CEO of
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, as its new CEO. In September 2014, Alfresco 5 was released with new reporting and analytics features and an overhaul of its document search tool, moving from
Lucene Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as ...
to
Solr Solr (pronounced "solar") is an open-source enterprise-search platform, written in Java. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features a ...
. In November 2016, Alfresco launched an AWS Quickstart for building an Alfresco Content Services server cluster on the AWS Cloud. In March 2017, Alfresco rebranded as the Digital Business Platform. This included the release of the Application Development Framework with reusable Angular JS(2.0) components. On February 8, 2018, it was announced that Alfresco was acquired by the private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. On September 9, 2020, Alfresco was acquired again by
Hyland Software Hyland Software is the developer of the enterprise content management (ECM) and process management software suite called OnBase. Applications of the suite are used in healthcare, financial institutions, insurance, government, higher education and ...
from Thomas H. Lee Partners for an undisclosed amount.


Products and Services

Alfresco's core platform offering consists of three primary products. It is designed for clients who require
modularity Broadly speaking, modularity is the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use. The concept of modularity is used primarily to reduce complexity by breaking a sy ...
and scalable performance. It can be deployed
on-premises On- premises software (abbreviated to on-prem, and incorrectly referred to as on-premise) is installed and runs on computers on the premises of the person or organization using the software, rather than at a remote facility such as a server farm ...
on servers or in the cloud using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Quick Start. A multi-tenant
SaaS Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software. SaaS is cons ...
offering is also available. Alfresco provides enterprise content management (ECM) services. This includes a content and metadata repository, a web interface named Share, the ability to define automated business rules, and text indexing. In addition, services that provide
records management Records management, also known as records and information management, is an organizational function devoted to the management of information in an organization throughout its life cycle, from the time of creation or receipt to its eventual dispos ...
functionality to address information governance requirements are also provided by the company. Alfresco Governance Services is DoD 5015.02 certified for records management. A on
open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
community edition of the Alfresco software known as Activiti is available..


See also

*
List of content management systems Content management systems (CMS) are used to organize and facilitate collaborative content creation. Many of them are built on top of separate content management frameworks. The list is limited to notable services. Open source software :''Th ...
* List of collaborative software *
Cloud collaboration Cloud collaboration is a method of sharing and co-authoring computer files via cloud computing, whereby documents are uploaded to a central "cloud" for storage, where they can then be accessed by other users. Cloud collaboration technologies allow ...
* Document collaboration * Document-centric collaboration


References


External links


Official website

Alfresco Hub - Forums (Community)

Alfresco Content Services on AWS (Amazon Quickstart)

Activiti Software Website

Alfresco Software External Project Repositories
on GitHub
How to run Alfresco, Share, and Solr on separate tomcats
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