About Alfresco
- Founded in 2005 by John Newton, Co-Founder of Documentum® and John Powell, former COO of Business Objects®
- Backed by Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and SAP Ventures
1 Million Downloads including:
- Government – Catalonian Government, Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, French Ministry of Justice, Islington Council, NASA, State of Nebraska, State of Louisiana, UK MOD
- Finance – American Stock Exchange and several of the world's largest financial institutions
- Education – Harvard, Kaplan, MIT, MacEwan, University of Ghent
- Not-For-Profit – Swansea Housing Association, Oxford Archaeology
- Publishing – McGraw-Hill, Christian Science Monitor, Informa
- Telecommunications – GlobeCast, Swisscom Mobile Labs
- Professional Services – H&R Block, Reed Managed Services, United Talent Agency
- Manufacturing – Boise Cascade, British Polythene Industries, Shimano Americas
- More...
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Optaros Code Camp for Alfresco Surf 3.0
Bamberger Haus, Brunnerstr.2, 80804 Munich, Germany
13Jan
Alfresco beats SharePoint for Prison Inmate Document Management
Online Webinar - 12pm EST (GMT - 5, New York)
05Jan
Intensive Alfresco Training for Development (5 Days)
About Objects - Reston, VA
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Alfresco was founded in 2005 by John Newton, co-founder of Documentum® and John Powell, former COO of Business Objects®. Its investors include the leading investment firms Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and SAP Ventures.
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.
Our 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 Team
Alfresco is built by a team of original leading members from Documentum® and Interwoven® with 15 years experience in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), including the co-founder of Documentum.
- John Newton – Co-Founder of Documentum
- John Powell – Former COO, Business Objects
- Dr. Ian Howells – Former VP Marketing, SeeBeyond®
- Matt Asay – Founder and Organizer of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)
- Former Engineers and Employees from Documentum, FileNet, OpenText, Interwoven and Vignette.
Find out more about our people.
History
The track record of the Alfresco team has enabled Alfresco to rapidly become the leading open source enterprise content management system. This has enabled it to communicate with governments and corporations at a high-level to shape open source strategies. Its brief history is as follows:
- January 2005 – Former Documentum Java Web Development and Portal Team begin Alfresco Development using Best-of-Breed Open Source Components
- October 2005 – Alfresco Product Launch
- May 2006 - Alfresco Enterprise Edition Goes 100% Open Source
- September 2006 - Alfresco Launches Web Content Management & Records Management Solutions
- November 2006 - Alfresco, MySQL and Red Hat Deliver First Open Source JSR-170 Benchmark
- December 2006 - Alfresco announces First Embedded ECM System
- February 2007 - Alfresco moves to GPL
- February 2007 - Alfresco 2.0 released
- July 2007 - Alfresco becomes Open Invention Network Licensee
- December 2007 – Alfresco Announces First Open Source Social Computing Platform for the Enterprise
- December 2007 - Alfresco named Red Herring 100 Global 2007 Awards Winner
- January 2008 – Alfresco Benchmark Exceeds 100 Million Objects
Alfresco
Alfresco is built using the latest open source infrastructure components including: Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, MyFaces and is based on Aspect-Oriented-Programming.
Alfresco‘s use of state-of-the art technology enable it to deliver a supported systems 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
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