Turbo Charged Alfresco

Many of you will know and use Adobe’s document sharing site acrobat.com. The content infrastructure is provided by Alfresco and our engineers have worked closely with Adobe engineers on this internet scale application.

The results of this effort can now be enjoyed by all Alfresco Enterprise subscribers, as these improvements are incorporated into versions 2.2 sp3 and 3.0 sp1 onwards.

Adobe has seen a dramatic improvement in performance for an application acquiring thousands of new users per day, managing tens of thousands of document uploads each day and storing 12 terabytes of user controlled content. The charts below show the dramatic improvement after the upgrade was completed recently.

Here is a note to our subscribers from Shahram Javey, Sr. Engineering Manager, Adobe Systems. "The Alfresco 2.2 sp3 marks an important milestone in terms of both sheer performance and scalability for both Alfresco and Adobe Share. We spent a number of months performance tuning Alfresco and Share, specifically the database access layers, and the results in terms of uptick in the number of users clearly shows that our customers like the consistent responsiveness of the new system."

Another recent development comes in the form of Alfresco Labs 3.0 Final, which includes a host of improvements as well as the collaboration capabilities in Alfresco Share.

Battling against the recession, our daily download rates for Alfresco Labs have tripled since December’08. We have also had great feedback from the press and community. I'd like to offer my thanks to our community, partners and core engineers who have worked so hard over the last 12 months to make this a great success.

Best regards,

John Powell,
CEO, Alfresco.

Customers

Harvard Business Publishing has recently launched new Alfresco-based websites. Rivet Logic has just completed the first phase of a major open source content management implementation for the online edition of Harvard Business Review at hbr.org, and Harvard Business Digital at harvardbusiness.org.

AQA, the UK’s largest Examination Board, has implemented Alfresco to power its new ‘Examiner Extranet’, enabling up to 30,000 users to have access to exam papers and related documentation online.

Caixa Andorrana de la Seguretat, the Andorran social security system administrator, has adopted Alfresco to provide their citizens with a public service portal.

See all Alfresco Customer case studies.

Partners

Optaros completes Drupal / Alfresco integration with CMIS-Alfresco Module

The “CMIS-Alfresco” module is an implementation of the CMIS API that lets Drupal sites connect to Alfresco specifically. The module facilitates CMIS queries, open search queries, and two-way synchronization of content between Drupal and Alfresco.  Optaros believes that CMIS is an important specification because it unlocks the content siloed away in an enterprise and makes it accessible in a uniform way by any front-end.

Ingres launches ECM Appliance

Ingres' Icebreaker Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Appliance, powered by Alfresco, was launched this week.  The simple to install, configure and manage appliance gives businesses a highly-reliable way to manage today’s extraordinary business content growth. 

Rational Retention launches e-Discovery Records Management

Alfresco partner Rationalretention.com has developed a solution to automate the enforcement of document retention policies and breaks the paradigm for e-discovery. The solution, which is fully integrated with Alfresco, has been developed to address the unrealized promise of Autonomy.

Community

Contributor of the Month for January - Gabriele Columbro

Gabriele Columbro, an Alfresco ECM Product Strategy Consultant at Sourcesense is an Apache Software Foundation enthusiast and contributor. His contributions to the Alfresco community are many, most notable is his work with Maven that simplifies the task of packaging and managing Alfresco extensions. Read more about Gabriele and his work.

Alfresco Chumby Awards for Community Achievement - January Winner

Pedro Jimenez, an Alfresco specialist at the regional Justice Ministry, in Seville, Spain, is an active contributor on the Spanish-language forums. He enjoys sharing his expertise by helping others learn. His slogan is “Do not give me fishes, better if you teach me how to fish”. He has been awarded an impressive 54 points since joining the forum in January, 2008.

Stay Connected

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