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Alfresco is an enterprise CMS available in different flavours. Alfresco One provides hybrid ECM (enterprise content management) that includes on-premise as well as cloud deployment of Alfresco with robust synchronis­ation capabiliti­es between the two. It has capabiliti­es of document management, Web content management, repository-level versioning, records management, image management, and content management support for learning management systems. It has supported the concept of an open source ECM since 2005. Alfresco continues to be the only vendor with an open source ECM offering in Gartner’s recently released

Magic Quadrant (a series of market research reports on key technologi­es, periodical­ly released by the US-based advisory and research firm). Alfresco remains in the ‘Visionarie­s quadrant’ section. It supports open standards such as Content Management Interopera­bility Services (CMIS). It offers interopera­bility with other CMSs such as Joomla, Google Docs, Liferay, salesforce.com, Drupal, Jive and IBM Connection­s. Alfresco has increased its presence on the world map through its partner ecosystem, which includes systems integrator­s, distributo­rs, OEM partners who embed Alfresco directly into their products, and technology partners.

Some of the highlighte­d features of Alfresco are multi-platform support such as Windows, GNU/Linux and Solaris; support to multiple database products such as MySQL, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server (Enterprise Edition), PostgreSQL (community edition), and Oracle Database; Lucene search, activities workflow, a learning object repository, auto-generated XForms with AJAX support, multi-language support, a browser-based GUI that supports Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer; desktop integratio­n with Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffic­e, as well as pluggable authentica­tion such as NTLM, LDAP, Kerberos, CAS, etc.

Website: http://www.alfresco.com/

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Figure 2: Alfresco dashboard
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Figure 1: Liferay portal

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