London, UK October 29, 2012– Alfresco, the cloud-connected platform, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management” (ECM). Vendors in the Visionaries quadrant are innovators that excel with highly...
Despite all the changes across the information management industry, the management of content still remains a core goal. According to Gartner’s recently released Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), demand for Enterprise CMS continues to grow as enterprises struggle to feed...
More from Alfresco this week after the release of the Community Edition v4.2 last week. Again, Alfresco is not making a big deal about it, with the only reference to it so far in the Alfresco blog. If you use Alfresco, this will definitely be worth a look. The announcement comes in the shape of a...
Ixxus has announced that it is contributing a valuable new tool which integrates the powerful faceted search capabilities of Apache Solr into Alfresco 4.
The contribution will aid Alfresco in fulfilling the ‘Smart Search’ requirements of its 2012 Product Road Map, enhancing functionality and...
We haven’t heard much lately from Alfresco about its community edition, but this week that’s all changed. It has just released v4.2 of the Community Edition, the first since v4.0, which comes with a whole pile of improvements including better Google Docs integration.
Alfresco has released a new open API for its cloud-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, Alfresco in the Cloud. The new API is designed to provide developers who are building apps for iOS and Android (as well as the cloud) with a "true enterprise alternative to consumer file-sharing...
But Box’s problem long-term is that a lot of very large software companies are building their own Box-like capabilities. Alfresco just added centralized file sharing and syncing to its content management suite. Microsoft has Skydrive which it’s integrating tightly into Windows. Google has Google...
Cloud, mobile and social collaboration are changing the way employees use content, and Huddle, Alfresco and Workshare hope to capitalise.
When enterprise content management systems emerged in the 1990s, they promised to bring order to the chaotic fashion in which employees consumed, shared and...
The more we talk to businesses about the cloud, the more we're hearing about the limitations and frustrations customers are having with basic cloud file-sharing services. If all you need to do is access files from your mobile device or share some files with your team, there are quite a few...
Alfresco provides open source enterprise content management serving a variety of use cases. I covered them earlier in the year (see: Alfresco Brings its Open Source Document Management to the Cloud). Recently I spoke with Jeff Potts, their Chief Community Officer, to get an update and to go into...
