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
- 2 Million Alfresco Downloads
- 133k Community Members
- Over 800 Enterprise Customers
- Sample Customer List...
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 Vignette 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®
- Former Engineers and Employees from Documentum, FileNet, OpenText, and Vignette.
Find out more about our people.
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 system that is:
- 5 Times Faster than Traditional Closed Systems
- 90% Less Expensive 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 Vignette.
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