e2.oh » alfresco http://www.e2oh.com Investigations Into Enterprise 2.0 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:15:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Alfresco Share Heart SharePoint http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/ http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:44:22 +0000 Jay Hariani http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66 It’s been a while since my last post; a longish assignment in Jakarta and the trials and tribulations of first time home ownership seem to have led my attentions elsewhere. Being overseas did give me the opportunity to sell a client on some new and interesting technology though – in this case, Alfresco’s Alfresco 3 / Alfresco Share web-based collaboration suite. Our client (a large intergovernmental organization headquartered in Jakarta) was interested in replacing a legacy document management system that had fallen into disuse. SharePoint was of course bandied about, amongst other things, but I ended up prototyping a beta of Alfresco Share:

Share combines social media capabilities like blogs and wikis with powerful search and an intuitive interface. Best of all, it has SharePoint Protocol Support. To Word or PowerPoint, Alfresco looks like a SharePoint repository, allowing Office suite programs to use Alfresco as if were speaking to SharePoint This has some interesting implications for organizations that want to move away from MOSS or WSS to something that’s open source, flexible, and relatively inexpensive (or free, if you can forgo support).
With Share, Aflresco steps into the Enterprise 2.0 suite category, a market niche that is getting a lot of attention lately. But, Alfresco’s differentiators here – that it has powerful ECM underpinnings, that prior revisions have been tested in the enterprise, and those users that are used to being able to use SharePoint document libraries are still able to do so – set it apart from its competitors.

For anyone out there that is heading down the E2.0 suite path, download their quick installer and give it a whirl. It’s worth a close look.

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