The CMS Expert

Thanks to smartphones, tablets, and the rise of cloud computing, employees in nearly every industry are constantly wired in and on-the-go, capable of working with ease during a commute or from a remote location. Mobile workers might do great things for your overhead costs and business possibilities, but how do you ensure that you’ll maintain [...]

In his recent post, Jeff Potts talked about the future of the Alfresco AVM.  There are several options for customers on the current AVM that Jeff alluded to.  Several are outlined here in this chart of how Alfresco becomes the content hub for your Web Content Services: In this post, we’re featuring a conversation we [...]

We are excited to be welcoming Kathleen Reidy to Alfresco as our new Director of Market Strategy! Kathleen joins us after almost 6 years at The 451 Group.  Here, in her own words, is why Kathleen decided to make the jump to Alfresco: After working as an analyst for a number of years covering content [...]

Using Alfresco Share 3.4 and above? Formtek announced last week the release of 5 new extensions that’ll help you get the most out of Alfresco. If you didn’t already know, Formtek has been an Alfresco Gold System Integration Partner since 2007, and has been providing ECM solutions for even longer. These extensions increase flexibility, security, [...]

We know that the office as we know it is going mobile—taking virtual shape in homes, coffee shops and shared workspaces around town. Some estimates put the number of mobile works around the world at over 1 billion. But what happens when these remote/distant workers need to collaborate, be creative, produce results AND they live [...]

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve deployed a new release of Alfresco in the Cloud, which re-introduces a few of your favorite features from Alfresco and also includes a couple of other highly requested features since we launched several weeks ago. In addition to all the new features you’ll see below, we’ve also made significant [...]

As many of you know, Alfresco in the Cloud has been live for several weeks now, with a constant influx of our customers and community registering on our sign-up page. We already have thousands of users registered on the service, with a noticeable number of return users using it to do real work online, spread [...]

Today is a big day at Alfresco, as we have officially launched Alfresco Enterprise 4.  Here is some of the early coverage: InfoWorld: Alfresco 4 heads for the cloud In anticipation of offering its open-source content management software as a service, Alfresco has upgraded its namesake product to work with multiple clients and to interact [...]

If you’ve been working with Alfresco for a while you know that there are actually two repository implementations in the product. The original repository implementation is usually called “the repository” or sometimes “the DM repository”. The other repository implementation is called “AVM” which stands for Alternative Versioning Model. It was created to support a Web [...]

I have been working in the ECM industry for over twenty years and during this time I have seen many different methods used by companies trying to to justify their investment in deploying an ECM solution. These approaches have taken various forms and I think can be classified as having a  high, medium or low [...]