Ixxus is the leading Alfresco system integration partner in the UK and Eire. We have implemented over 30 Alfresco based solutions, with real world implementation experience of document management, records management, collaboration, and web content management.

Ixxus has a team of over 20 Alfresco consultants based in the UK, who all have first hand experience of designing and building significant, enterprise Alfresco projects, including the design and build of enterprise Alfresco WCM websites and portals.

  • Ixxus delivered the first Alfresco WCM project in the UK.
  • Ixxus delivered the first Alfresco 3.0 project in the UK.
  • Ixxus delivered the first Alfresco Share project in the UK.
  • Ixxus is the authorised Alfresco Surf First Wave Partner in the UK.

Whether you just need some help with your own Alfresco project, or need a company to take on the design and build of your complete solution, Ixxus can provide you with a highly experienced and knowledgeable team.

We now provide first level support on behalf of Alfresco in the UK for all of our clients, and have an extensive collection of Ixxus Intellectual Property around the development and integration of Alfresco that allows us to be faster and more efficient when designing and building Alfresco solutions.

An Overview of Alfresco

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. 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 much lower cost.

The Alfresco goal is to not only provide an open source offering but to surpass commercial offerings such as Documentum or Microsoft® SharePoint® in terms of features, functionality and benefits to the user community.

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

Alfresco is built using the latest open source infrastructure components such as:

  • Spring
  • Hibernate
  • Lucene
  • MyFaces
  • Based on Aspect-Oriented-Programming

Alfresco's use of state-of-the art technology enable it to deliver a supported system that is:

  • 5 Times Faster than Traditional Closed Systems
  • 10 Times Cheaper than Traditional Closed Systems

Alfresco is:

  • Open - Open Source, Open Standards
  • Source - Best-of-Breed Open Source Components
  • Enterprise - Enterprise-Scale, Enterprise-Infrastructure, Enterprise-Control
  • Content - Documents, records, Web Pages, Images, Rich Media
  • Management - Most Experienced Team in Content Management in the World from Documentum and Interwoven

The Benefits of Using Alfresco

Ease-of-Use

  • Intelligent Virtual File System - As simple to use as a shared drive through CIFS, WebDAV or FTP
  • Google®-Like Search and Yahoo!®-Like Folder Browsing

Developer Productivity

  • Aspect Oriented Rules Development through Simple-to-Use Wizards
  • Rules and Actions Managed in the Server once for all Interfaces

Best-Practice Collaboration

  • Pre-Configured Smart-Space Templates - Project Structure, Content, Logic, Lifecycles
  • Forums - Threaded Discussions on Folders or Documents

Administrator Productivity

  • Simple Server Install and No Client Install
  • Advanced Content Security Management

Advanced Search/Knowledge Management

  • Sophisticated Content, Attribute, Location, Object Type and Multiple Taxonomy/Category Search

Distributed Architecture

  • Highly Scalable and Fault Tolerant Service Oriented Architecture

Open Source

  • Dramatically Lower Cost