Comments on: Alfresco Review

By: Nit

Nit — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:24:53 +0000

Hey Apoorv,
Thanks for ur blogs.Do u have any clue about Jboss CMS.. I was researching on that and stumbled on Alfresco ?/ do u think I can support Alfresco community edition without buying support.Its community edition does look more supported than Magnolia.
-Nit

By: Dave Hickman

Dave Hickman — Wed, 03 May 2006 14:35:24 +0000

Alfresco does look interesting. With so much opently taken from Documentum, should we be concerned with trade secrets? Magnolia may also be a viable, more mature alternative.

By: pcmspace.com » Alfresco Named Trend-Setter

pcmspace.com » Alfresco Named Trend-Setter — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:58:43 +0000

[...] Alfresco, an Open Source Content Management framework has been named a “Trend-Setter” by KMWorld magazine. KMWorld recognized Alfresco’s open source content repository for its usability, rapid rate of industry adoption and anticipated future impact. I never got a chance to explore Alfresco but Alfresco review shows that the product has lot to offer in the ECM space. Watch out this space for my thoughts about Alfresco. [...]

By: Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:49:33 +0000

Outstanding Questions regarding Enterprise Content

Over the last couple of months, I have had the opportunity to get involved with our ECM efforts at work. Spent a lot of time searching google, reading whitepapers of vendors and even the research of industry analysts yet I still have many outstanding…

By: Boris Kraft

Boris Kraft — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:39:52 +0000

Well, you might not have heard of Magnolia [1] which easily meets your points 1-3. Personally, I think it is confusing to call Alfresco a CMS – its a document management system. Of course documents are content too, but usually people associate web content management when they hear/read “CMS”, and not document management (i.e. DMS)

[1] http://www.magnolia.info

By: Apoorv

Apoorv — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 06:44:38 +0000

John,
Alfresco has a lot of promise and I am actually excited by it. Please keep up the good work.

From whatever little i’ve seen of Alfresco, ease of use is going to be Alfresco’s strong point. I think any *positioning* should be centered around the strenghts. IMHO, market needs a CMS that:

1. can be implemented in less than 1 M
2. Implementation period should be small (3-6 months)
3. and finally, should be easy to use and without bloated features that most people donot use anyways

I donot know many CMS products that address all the above needs and I think Alfresco is in a position to meet all of the above. An “Honest to Goodness” CMS if you will

By: John Newton

John Newton — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:07:40 +0000

I’m from Alfresco and our ambitions are in ECM. Obviously one cannot create an ECM from day one, but we can solve some of the problems that have not been solved yet.

Our belief is that even in organizations that have purchased major licenses, ECM remains under used. The main reason is that getting content in remains a pain. A lot of content that should be used and reused by the rest of the organization is lost on big shared hard drives.

Our strategy for the first release is simple: make it as easy to get in as using a shared file drive and make it available through standards-based portals. That is why we integrated CIFS and why we built the UI as a portlet with JSR-168 compatibility and JSF. We also organize the content in “spaces” to simplify the collaborative development of content.

How do we position this? I would call this “Collaborative Content Management”. How would the market position this (which is more important)? The closest label that exists today is ECM or document management. I feel that ECM is overly expansive and document management is overly restrictive. But there is definitely demand for this category as we have seen in even very large organizations.

I’d be interested in your views as to how to position it.

-john