Alfresco Document Management News & Articles

Brian Remmington, Architect of Content Management of Alfresco lead us through the content model, custom behaviors and publish mechanisms upon which the Web Quick Start solution is based during the session, Web Quick Start: Under the Covers at the Alfresco Developers Conference NYC 2010.

How do you relate to a packed room of developers? Talk about Monty Python and the Holy Grail, of course. And that’s exactly what John Powel, CEO of Alfresco did. By comparing the Brave Knights to content application developers, he articulated companies’ ongoing need to penetrate impenetrable fortresses.

Alfresco (news, site) released version 3.4 of its Community edition of the Enterprise CMS, offering a slew of new tools, services and functionalities.

You guys went nuts over our list of social platforms for enterprise collaboration, so we thought we'd switch things around and discuss a handful of the major players in the ECM game that are supporting team work and social solutions. 

Welcome to the September installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Almost exactly a year ago LinearCube (news, site) launched its Alfresco-based document management solution for the SMB market. Recently it has extended that software with the launch of ContentCube Dedicated (CCD), which comes enhanced software and customizable features for large businesses and service providers.

Central Desktop (news, site) offers a helping bridge between the tricky-to-manage islands of your MS Office docs and cloud data.

Welcome to the August installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Any acquisition (and there have been quite a few of them lately) in the content management industry usually makes a splash. Today, it was Day's day to stir up the media, analysts, bloggers, twitterati and industry watchers; provoking pontifications around the announced US$ 240 mil. acquisition by Adobe.

Here’s the first look at what the industry was buzzing about and what some of the possible implications of the deal might be -- for Day, for Adobe, for the market.

Following Adobe's enormous acquisition of Omniture, in a deal roughly one-eighth the size, the company has snatched-up Switzerland-based Day Software, a well known (to us) maker of Java-based content repositories and enterprise-focused Web Content Management software, via an all-cash bid of about US$ 240 million.

Welcome to the July installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Alfresco (news, site) has been an open source CMS company for quite some time. Yet, only the company's employees have been able to commit code to Alfresco projects: up until now.

With the release of Alfresco Enterprise 3.3, open source Enterprise Content Management vendor Alfresco Software (news, site) has jumped headlong into integration that allows for a much more flexible document infrastructure.

EntropySoft (news, site) gets active in the cloud with a new appliance that provides the ability to share documents.

Alfresco (news, site) partners with EntropySoft to make it easier for new customers to migrate their data using ETL to its own open source ECM products.