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Collaborative Content Management

Overpriced, overly complex collaboration has been commoditized and consumerized. People want the simplicity and familiarity of the tools they use day-in, day-out - searching in Google, reading in Wikipedia, writing in a Blog, finding people in Linkedin, being notified in a simple RSS reader, viewing friends' activities in Facebook and bringing this all together in iGoogle. Alfresco Share delivers all of this functionality for enterprise users, projects and teams.

Alfresco Share Features

Alfresco Share is built on the Alfresco enterprise-class document repository and delivers out-of-thebox collaborative content management. It simplifies capturing, sharing and retrieval of information across virtual teams. Team or project members can rapidly find relevant content, experts, look at past or similar projects and keep on top of any relevant changes to make them more efficient.

• Document Library
  • Simply bulk-upload project content and let others choose content via thumbnails and view it in a Flash viewer – allowing users to view content regardless of the originating application or product version (e.g. Microsoft Office 2007). Simply search rich meta-data of document properties and tags. Allow access via an RSS feed.
• Search
  • Teams can search for people and experts to contribute to their projects as easily as searching for content.
• Activity Feeds
  • Provide users with updates on what is new or changing in a project – essentially providing the “who, what, when and where” for content that is added, edited or commented on, as well as new team members and critical calendar dates.
• Create Virtual Teams
  • Create the right virtual team for projects and communities including both internal and external members
• Personalized Dashboard
  • Use a rich interactive interface to configure a customizable dashboard and sites based on what is most important to a specific role or project.
• Rapid Application Development
  • Develop applications in an environment that uses lightweight scripting and reusable components avoiding .Net and Java.
• N-tier Architecture
  • Deliver scalability and accommodate more users on existing hardware resources.
• Draft CMIS Support
  • A draft implementation of the proposed Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification is included to provide a platform for developing and testing new applications. The proposed CMIS standard is currently undergoing OASIS committee stage review and is backed by all of the leading ECM vendors.
• SharePoint Protocol Support
  • The first ECM platform to offer Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support. Delivering lower cost collaboration with no additional client installation required and allows choice for hardware, database, operating system, application server and portal products.

Alfresco Share Benefits

Alfresco Enterprise Edition enables organizations to control costs and boost productivity in the following ways:

• Rapid deployment delivers immediate business value: Alfresco’s Web 2.0 functionality enables organizations to simply and rapidly rollout collaborative content solutions;
• Supports initiatives for knowledge retention, best practice and virtual teams: Organizations can support virtual team collaboration for home and distributed working, as well as support initiatives for employee knowledge retention and more effectively access best practice information;
• Cost reduced to operating expense rather than capital expense: Alfresco’s open source subscription model allows customers to implement an enterprise wide collaboration tool at a low cost, without incurring capital expenses (cap ex) associated with traditional licensing models;
• Re-use of existing investments in hardware and software: Alfresco’s open standards architecture enables organizations to leverage existing investments in hardware and software;
• Use existing skills: Utilize internal developers, DBA and systems administrators skills sets; and
• Quickly create new applications to support departmental requirements: Alfresco supports rapid application development with components produced using lightweight, standards-based scripting as opposed to a proprietary stack tying customers into a single vendor and the related maintenance costs.