Alfresco Announces First Embedded Enterprise Content Management System

WebKnowHow
Monday, December 18, 2006; 09:06 AM

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the availability of the Enterprise Edition of version 1.4 of the Alfresco embedded Enterprise Content Management system. This offers application vendors a low-cost, scalable platform, which is standards based, to OEM as part of their application. Traditionally application vendors have had to manage the high cost, of either developing their own repository, or using an expensive, proprietary offering from an ECM vendor.

"Alfresco is the first embeddable Enterprise Content Management system and has already been embedded in a number of applications," said John Newton, CTO, Alfresco Software, Inc. "It was designed from the beginning to be embeddable and fits as easily into enterprise applications as small devices."

Alfresco was designed from the ground up to be embedded in modern architectures for the new world of enterprise software. It is:

--  A 100 percent Java war file that can be simply run in an application
    sever
--  Can share the same JVM as the embedding application or be accessed
    remotely
--  Less than 40MB in size
--  The most scalable standards-based JSR-170 repository
--  Offers the same functionality in the embedded, Enterprise  and
    Community versions
--  Simple to install and rollout
--  Has an OEM friendly business model
   

An embedded version of Alfresco has been available since October 2005. The latest embedded version can be downloaded at:

http://www.alfresco.com/products/ecm/enttrial/

About Alfresco Software, Inc.

Alfresco Software, Inc. is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfresco.com.