Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Open Source CMS - Alfresco News

Alfresco News: "Alfresco Enterprise Content Management 1.1 Released

Dec 5, 2005
An open source enterprise content management system

Improvements and additions in this 1.1 release focus on adding the security and permissions framework to the open version, first phase of JCR-170 Level 2 support and adding Groups support and management to the Enterprise version. A large number of bug fixes and enhancements also present in this release.

Alfresco provides a repository as well as an application to manage the repository, and has been designed for developing portal content, or replacing uncontrolled shared drives.

Alfresco has been implemented with open source projects such as Spring, Hibernate, and Lucene. It is also a Java Content Repository level 1 implementation with the first phase of level 2 available in this release, and provides the following features:"


* Library Services (Check-in/out, versioning)
* Smart Spaces (Rules and Conditions)
* Desktop File Access (CIFS, FTP)
* Auditable Content
* Workflow
* Content Categorization
* Data Management and Transformation Engine e.g. Word to PDF
* Content Streaming
* Advanced Search (Lucene full-text, Meta-Data and Custom Meta-Data, Content, Location and Category Search)
* Administration
* Advanced Security
* Virtual File System making ECM as simple as a Z: drive
* Team Collaboration
* Automatic Meta-Data Extraction
* Document and Folder templating and dashboards

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