diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6b7c3c60ca..23b4ef7dac 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
           if [[ ${TRAVIS_BRANCH} == *community* ]]; then
             bash scripts/startAlfresco.sh $COMMUNITY_REPO_PATH
           else
-            bash scripts/startAlfresco.sh $ENTERPRISE_REPO_PATH
+            bash scripts/start-compose.sh "${ENTERPRISE_REPO_PATH}/docker-compose-travis.yml"
           fi
         - bash scripts/waitForAlfrescoToStart.sh
       script: mvn -B test -pl :alfresco-governance-services-automation-community-rest-api -Dskip.automationtests=false
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ jobs:
         - travis_retry travis_wait 90 mvn -B -q install $MVN_SKIP -PbuildDockerImage -pl :alfresco-governance-services-enterprise-repo -am
         - travis_retry travis_wait 30 mvn -B -U -q clean install ${MVN_SKIP} -pl :alfresco-governance-services-automation-enterprise-rest-api -am
       before_script:
-        - bash scripts/startAlfresco.sh $ENTERPRISE_REPO_PATH
+        - bash scripts/start-compose.sh "${ENTERPRISE_REPO_PATH}/docker-compose-travis.yml"
         - bash scripts/waitForAlfrescoToStart.sh
       script:
         - mvn -B test -pl :alfresco-governance-services-automation-enterprise-rest-api -Dskip.automationtests=false
diff --git a/scripts/start-compose.sh b/scripts/start-compose.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5de2330d74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/start-compose.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+export DOCKER_COMPOSE_PATH="${1}"
+
+if [ -z "$DOCKER_COMPOSE_PATH" ] ; then
+  echo "Please provide path to docker-compose.yml: \"${0##*/} /path/to/docker-compose.yml\""
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Starting AGS stack in ${DOCKER_COMPOSE_PATH}"
+
+# .env files are picked up from project directory correctly on docker-compose 1.23.0+
+docker-compose --file "${DOCKER_COMPOSE_PATH}" --project-directory $(dirname "${DOCKER_COMPOSE_PATH}") up -d
+
+if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
+  echo "Docker Compose started ok"
+else
+  echo "Docker Compose failed to start" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi