Alfresco Document Management News & Articles

We said earlier in the week that we couldn’t talk about Alfresco 4 until today. Well, it’s today now and we can talk a little bit about this latest release, although only a little bit because it really is enormous. With it, Alfresco pushes its open content management platform firmly into the mobile and social space.

In the document management space this week, Alfresco announced that later in the week it will be releasing Enterprise 4, Microsoft announced the public beta of Office 15 for the summer, Colligo got legal at LegalTech, Rioch bought HSSK and M-Files can now be used on mobile devices.

Alfresco has taken another step towards making document management truly mobile with the release of its Alfresco Mobile 1.2 app built around an integration with QuickOffice and available for iPads and iPhones through the App Store.

Normally in this space we look back over the current month and forward into the next month, keeping you up to date with the open source CMS and other related projects that might interest you. Like last year, we're taking a look back at 2011 and into 2012 for some extra insights into what's to come.

The end of another year in document management, and what a year it was. There really was something for everyone from SharePoint, to HP and Autonomy, from open source to enterprise CMS. Here are some of what we think are the highlights of the year. Undoubtedly you’ll have others, so let us know and maybe we can get a second list up and running in the New Year.

We round up a DAM buying guide, an open source DAM software review, product announcements and look at evaluating your DAM needs and some outsource considerations.

When I saw the headline of the Forrester article proclaiming the death of the enterprise CMS suite, I couldn't help but both be pleased with myself, and feel a little sorry for the analysts. After all, I scooped them and proclaimed the exact same thing a little more than three weeks before.

Yesterday we saw in the Forrester Wave for Enterprise CMS Suites 2011 for Q4 that there is a shift in the enterprise CMS market away from the big, lumbering giants of a couple of years ago toward more content-centric apps designed to fulfill a specific business function. Today, we’ll take a look at how some of the major vendors are dealing with this challenge.

Discussion around the evolving role of enterprise CMS and the software that aims to do that are almost a weekly phenomenon. This week’s discussion comes in the shape of the Forrester Wave for ECM Suites for Q4, which highlights a number of issues that we already saw in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for enterprise CMS last week.

Open source content management provider Alfresco has announced the latest community release of their platform, Alfresco Community 4, at JavaOne and it’s packed with new features.

Alfresco has some new apps in the Apple App Store today. Mobile content management anyone?

Alfresco and WeWebU announced a global technology partnership that will result in an Open Source alternative for transactional content management. 

Open source content management system (CMS) provider Alfresco and Semantic Content Enrichment provider TEMIS have announced an integration that allows semantic metadata to be extracted from content stored in Alfresco.

In light of the recent acquisition of BPM vendor Global 360 by OpenText, the question of the relationship between enterprise content management (ECM) and integrated business process management (BPM) software is, once again, in the spotlight.

Social media has become a component of marketing and customer engagement for many organizations. However, many are not managing their social network use as consistently as other forms of enterprise content. London-based Ixxus (news, site) has a solution.