Alfresco
The Ixxus team has many years experience in independently integrating many of the leading enterprise content management products that are commercially available today.
However, Ixxus decided to adopt a strategic partnership with Alfresco - based on our belief that the technology, business model, and individuals behind the organization offer a unique proposition to companies and organizations that is unsurpassed in today's market.
Therefore Ixxus represent Alfresco as a Gold Partner in the UK, providing full consultancy, integration and support services. Ixxus are currently delivering some of the latest Alfresco Enterprise Web Content Management and Document/Records Management projects in the UK.
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