Alfresco Sets Agenda for Open Source Social Computing
LONDON, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in
open source enterprise content management (ECM), today announced the first
open source Social Computing Platform for the enterprise. The new release
integrates Alfresco's popular ECM software with leading Web 2.0 tools and
services such as Facebook, iGoogle, Adobe Flex, MediaWiki, TypePad and
WordPress.
This expanded version of the Alfresco ECM platform delivers
people-centric tools to let users develop next-generation rich Internet
applications (RIAs), mashup and present internal and external content, and
bring social networking capabilities into the workplace, while retaining
choice over the selection of best of breed open source tools and ensuring
enterprise-level security and control.
Corporations are beginning to redirect their focus on containing,
controlling and confining enterprise content toward the engaged, empowered
and collaborative approaches driven by Web 2.0-inspired social computing.
Social computing is the use of technology in the enterprise to support the
sharing of information and to encourage collaboration through social
networks to tap into "the wisdom of crowds."
"Enterprise employees use internal tools, like e-mail, Microsoft
Office, intranet and CRM, as well as external tools like Google Search,
LinkedIn, Wikipedia, and Google maps, to perform their jobs," said Jon
Williams, author of the New York CTO blog. "These tools should all be
integrated in an Enterprise Social Computing Platform."
In this new collaborative environment, social computing platforms must
focus on users' preferences for communicating, ensure content is accessible
everywhere and in context to activity, and provide people-centric tools.
Alfresco has embraced this major industry trend by incorporating the
following capabilities into Alfresco Social Computing Platform:
-- Social Collaboration -- Knowledge Spaces, Calendars, Discussions,
Wikis, Presence (Skype and Yahoo), Social Tagging, and richer Social
Networking information for users
-- Integrating the Outside-In -- Out-of-the-box integration of best of
breed open source Web 2.0 tools and services such as Facebook, iGoogle
and MediaWiki, WordPress, TypePad, RSS Readers and Email
-- Integrating the Inside-Out -- Out-of-the-box content publishing to
multiple channels including Web sites, Facebook, WordPress and TypePad
-- Rich Mashup Architecture -- Creation of new Rich Internet Application
(RIA) mashup applications through the Adobe(R) Flex(TM) SDK,
integrating front office and back office through content services.
Web-oriented architecture with simple, lightweight scripting using
internet standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
-- Choice -- Choice of operating system, database, application server,
portal, content creation tools, collaboration and social networking
tools, unlike products such as SharePoint.
"Social Computing is radically changing today's definition of
collaboration and ECM, prompting corporate IT managers to reconsider how to
make it easier for people to collaborate and securely manage content both
inside and outside the organization," said John Newton, CTO and co-founder
of Alfresco Software, Inc. "Alfresco is uniquely positioned to deliver an
open source Social Computing alternative for those who need Web scalability
and don't want to be tied into a proprietary stack of operating system,
database, application server, portal, scripting languages and social
networking tools. Our Web 2.0-style architecture enabled us to develop
these integrations in days, when many proprietary approaches take months."
The Alfresco Social Computing platform can be deployed in modern
knowledge worker scenarios, for example:
-- Providing new product information or materials to a Partner Extranet
using Alfresco's iGoogle Gadgets
-- Consumer organizations managing communications to mass market audiences
in a consistent manner across Facebook, Web site and blogs
-- Government organizations publishing policy or special interest group
consultation documents for discussion with citizens via Facebook
More information on this product release and open source social
computing can be found at http://www.alfresco.com/products/solutions/sc/.
Alfresco Social Computing Platform will be available for download
beginning December 11, 2007:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373.
About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software 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
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Page One PR
415-875-7494
patricia@pageonepr.com
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