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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