Alfresco is a fully comprehensive enterprise content management system, providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.

Alfresco was founded in 2005 by John Newton, co-founder of Documentum, and John Powell, former COO of Business Objects. Its investors include leading investment firms Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and SAP Ventures.

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management (ECM). 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 a much lower cost.

Alfresco's goal is to not only provide an open source offering, but also to surpass commercial ECM offerings in terms of features, functionality and benefits to the user community.

The track record of the Alfresco team has enabled Alfresco to rapidly become the leading open source enterprise content management system. This has allowed it to communicate with governments and corporations at a high level to shape open source strategies. Alfresco continues to drive industry innovation with the following milestones:

• Surpassed the 2 million software downloads mark
• Released the first Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) implementation
• Contributed Spring Surf, the largest Spring Extension to date, to Spring community
• First open source Records Management software to gain DoD 5015.02 certification
• First implementation of the SharePoint Protocol
• World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

Alfresco’s passion is to offer a solution that focuses on:

• Low Cost: A low cost, open source, subscription model with minimal upfront investment that can be driven out of operating expense as opposed to capital expense
• Simplicity: Rapid deployment to deliver immediate business value and rapid application development using pre-built components and lightweight scripting
• Choice: Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by reusing existing hardware, software and skills. No lock-in to one ECM vendor or one stack, so when a vendor tries to dramatically increase maintenance fees you have a choice to go elsewhere