Alfresco Software is a collection of

information management Information management (IM) is the appropriate and optimized capture, storage, retrieval, and use of information. It may be personal information management or organizational. Information management for organizations concerns a cycle of organiz ...

software products for

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and

Unix-like A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X, *nix or *NIX) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Uni ...

operating systems An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

developed by Alfresco Software Inc. using

Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...

technology. The software, branded as a Digital Business Platform is principally a proprietary & a commercially licensed open source platform, supports open standards, and provides

enterprise Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to: Business and economics Brands and enterprises * Enterprise GP Holdings, an energy holding company * Enterprise plc, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company * Enterpris ...

scale. There are also

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Community Editions available licensed under LGPLv3.

History

John Newton (co-founder of Documentum) and John Powell (a former COO of

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) founded Alfresco Software, Inc. in 2005. In July 2005, Alfresco released the first version of their software. Alfresco initially focused on document management, in May 2006, the company announced its intention to expand into web content management by acquiring senior technical and managerial staff from Interwoven; this included its VP of Web Content Management, two principal engineers, and a member of its user-interface team. In October 2009, the 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report described Alfresco as a “leading Java-based open source web content management system”. In 2010, Alfresco sponsored a new

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

BPM engine called Activiti. In July 2011, Alfresco and Ephesoft announced a technology collaboration to offer document capture and

Content Management Interoperability Services Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is an open standard that allows different content management systems to inter-operate over the Internet. Specifically, CMIS defines an abstraction layer for controlling diverse document manageme ...

brought together for intelligent

PDF Portable document format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe Inc., Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, computer hardware, ...

capture and search and

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development. In January 2013, Alfresco appointed Doug Dennerline, former president of

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, former EVP of Sales at Salesforce.com, and former CEO of

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, as its new CEO. In September 2014, Alfresco 5 was released with new reporting and analytics features and an overhaul of its document search tool, moving from

Lucene Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as a ...

Solr Solr (pronounced "solar") is an open-source enterprise-search platform, written in Java. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features ...

. In November 2016, Alfresco launched an AWS Quickstart for building an Alfresco Content Services server cluster on the AWS Cloud. In March 2017, Alfresco rebranded as the Digital Business Platform. This included the release of the Application Development Framework with reusable Angular JS(2.0) components. On February 8, 2018, it was announced that Alfresco was acquired by the private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. On September 9, 2020, Alfresco was acquired again by

Hyland Software Hyland Software is the developer of the enterprise content management (ECM) and process management software suite called OnBase. Applications of the suite are used in healthcare, financial institutions, insurance, government, higher education an ...

from Thomas H. Lee Partners for an undisclosed amount.

Products and services

Alfresco's core platform offering consists of three primary products. It is designed for clients who require

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and scalable performance. It can be deployed on-premises on servers or in the

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using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Quick Start. A multi-tenant

SaaS Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike oth ...

offering is also available. Alfresco provides

enterprise content management Enterprise content management (ECM) extends the concept of content management by adding a timeline for each content item and, possibly, enforcing processes for its creation, approval, and distribution. Systems using ECM generally provide a secur ...

(ECM) services. This includes a content and metadata repository, a web interface named Share, the ability to define automated business rules, and text indexing. In addition, services that provide

records management Records management, also known as records and information management, is an organizational function devoted to the information management, management of information in an organization throughout its records life-cycle, life cycle, from the time of ...

functionality to address

information governance Information governance, or IG, is the overall strategy for information at an organization. Information governance balances the risk that information presents with the value that information provides. Information governance helps with legal compli ...

requirements are also provided by the company. Alfresco Governance Services is DoD 5015.02 certified for records management.

References

External links

Official website

Alfresco Hub - Forums (Community)

Alfresco Content Services on AWS (Amazon Quickstart)

Activiti Software Website

Alfresco Software External Project Repositories
on

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History

Products and services

See also

References

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