About Alfresco
- -Alfresco was founded in 2005 by John Newton, co-founder of Documentum® and -John Powell, former COO of Business Objects®. Its investors include the leading -investment firms Accel Partners and Mayfield Fund.
- -Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content -management. It couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a -true enterprise-class platform. 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 such as Documentum or Microsoft® -SharePoint® in terms of features, -functionality and benefits to the user community.
- -“Open Source changes the whole cost profile of -Enterprise Content Management”
- - - -Alfresco Team
- -Alfresco is built by a team of original leading members from Documentum® and -Interwoven® with 15 years experience in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), -including the co-founder of Documentum.
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- John Newton – Co-Founder of Documentum -
- John Powell – Former COO, Business Objects -
- Dr. Ian Howells – Former VP Marketing, SeeBeyond® -
- Kevin Cochrane – Former VP Web Content Management, Interwoven® -
- Matt Asay – Founder and Organizer of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) -
- Former Documentum Java Web Development and Portal Team -
- Former Interwoven® TeamSite® and OpenDeploy® Engineers -
Find out more about our people.
- -History
- -The track record of the Alfresco team has enabled Alfresco to rapidly become -the leading open source enterprise content management system. This has enabled -it to communicate with governments and corporations at a high-level to shape -open source strategies. Its brief history is as follows:
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- January 2005 – Former Documentum Java Web Development and Portal Team begin -Alfresco Development using Best-of-Breed Open Source Components -
- June 2005 – Alfresco Release Candidate 1 announced -
- July 2005 – KMWorld Trend-Setting Product Award -
- October 2005 – Alfresco Product Launch -
- October 2005 – OSBC Emerging Elite Award -
- November 2005 – eContent 100 – Intranets and Portals Award -
- January 2006 – Allfresco Announce 25 Partnerships including: JBoss®, -MySQL®, Novell®, SugarCRM® -
- February 2006 – Former Core Interwoven Team Join Alfresco -
- April 2006 Red Herring 100 Award -
“Blaine calculated that he'd need a document management -system that could handle 1.2 terabytes of customer data a year. Since many of -the documents needed to be held for compliance reasons for seven years, he'd -need at least a 10-terabyte system”
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- -Alfresco is built using the latest open source infrastructure components such as:
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- Spring -
- Hibernate -
- Lucene -
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- Based on Aspect-Oriented-Programming -
Alfresco‘s use of state-of-the art technology enable it to deliver a supported systems that is:
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- 5 Times Faster than Traditional Closed Systems -
- 10 Times Cheaper than Traditional Closed Systems -
Alfresco is:
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- Open – Open Source, Open Standards -
- Source – Best-of-Breed Open Source Components -
- Enterprise – Enterprise-Scale, Enterprise-Infrastructure, Enterprise-Control -
- Content – Documents, records, WebPages, Images, Rich Media -
- Management – Most Experienced Team in Content Management in the World from Documentum and Interwoven -