Creates Google Gadgets for Internal and External Content Mashup in the
Workplace
LONDON, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in
open source enterprise content management (ECM), today announced the launch
of Alfresco Enterprise Google Gadgets for ECM, which lets business users
manage, create and edit enterprise content with traditional enterprise
control from within their iGoogle homepage, and combine internal and
external content and services. A preview will be made immediately available
for download and to the 30,000 members of the Alfresco Content Community.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071204/AQTU097)
A new generation of knowledge workers uses internal and external
content, services and networks as if they were one. To perform better in
their job they are bringing external tools and services from the home into
the office. This is driving enterprises to re-evaluate their strategy on
content, services and user driven tools for knowledge worker productivity.
iGoogle supports the use of specially developed gadgets to display
content on a user's home page. The gadgets are interactive
mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on the user's desktop and
used to search and deliver a wide array of personalized information. Google
Gadgets can be created by Google, as well as by third-party developers,
using Google's Application Programming Interface (API). Alfresco's
Enterprise Google Gadgets provide iGoogle corporate users with access to
Alfresco's powerful ECM capabilities, enabling portal-based mashup of
content from both internal and external sources.
Initially, Alfresco has developed three easy-to-use Enterprise Google
Gadgets to enable users to mashup enterprise content. These are:
-- Search -- Document and content search
-- Space browser -- Document library for browsing spaces (folders),
creating and editing content
-- My Tasks -- Enables workflow task management, attachments and task
filtering
"Alfresco Enterprise Google Gadgets enable users to leverage Alfresco's
ECM capabilities and tools from within their iGoogle home page. This
continues our focus on enabling users to mashup internal and external
content, services and tools using an open approach and open standards,"
commented John Newton, CTO and co-founder, Alfresco Software. "The Gadgets
were developed in a matter of days using Alfresco's Web Scripts technology,
which provides a rapid application development approach based on a
Web-oriented REST-style API. Older SOA approaches would have taken much
longer to develop this type of integration."
Alfresco will be among the first organizations to implement Alfresco
Enterprise Google Gadgets for ECM, letting more than 30,000 Alfresco
Content Community members access the Alfresco Content Community Web site
via iGoogle.
Alfresco iGoogle Gadgets will also be available as part of Alfresco's
new Social Computing Platform (see accompanying news release). For more
information, visit
http://www.alfresco.com/products/solutions/sc/googlegadgets/.
To download Alfresco iGoogle Gadgets, please visit
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=238
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About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software, Inc. is the first and 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 http://www.alfrescosoftware.com/.
Media contact
Patricia Colby
Page One PR
415-875-7494
patricia@pageonepr.com
Google, Google Gadgets and iGoogle are trademarks of Google Inc.
SOURCE Alfresco Software, Inc.
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http://www.alfrescosoftware.com
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CONTACT:
Patricia Colby of Page One PR,
+1-415-875-7494, patricia@pageonepr.com, for Alfresco Software,
Inc.
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