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.
- 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:
- 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”
Alfresco
Alfresco is built using the latest open source infrastructure components such as:
- Spring
- Hibernate
- Lucene
- MyFaces
- Based on Aspect-Oriented-Programming
Alfresco‘s use of state-of-the art technology enable it to deliver a supported systems that is:
- 5 Times Faster than Traditional Closed Systems
- 10 Times Cheaper than Traditional Closed Systems
Alfresco is:
- 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
