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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 [...]

Today, Alfresco has announced that Alfresco Mobile 1.2 (for iPhone and iPad) is available immediately in the app store.  Feel free to read the press release and go ahead and download the new apps.  But let me sum this news up for your:  Alfresco Mobile is the FIRST mobile enterprise content app with the ability [...]

Today Alfresco and SAP issued a joint press release announcing how SAP are using Alfresco Enterprise as a core content management platform to support it’s business. By coincidence this announcement occurred just a couple of days after SAP upped the ante in SaaS/Cloud computing with its $3.4B acquisition of SucessFactors, with a knockout price 70% [...]

We had an incredible Day 1 at Alfresco DevCon London that ended with a reception at Vinopolis. On Day 2 the attendees were up early and ready for the sessions and sponsors hit the ground running with demos of creative solutions in the exhibit hall. In thinking back about DevCon in both San Diego and London, [...]

We had a wonderful event in London last week. Everyone that attended both agrees: The two cities and venues were very different, but the Alfresco vibe of openness, collaboration, and innovation was going strong at both DevCon events. If you missed a session in either location, we now have the DevCon presentations uploaded to SlideShare, [...]

Our case study series continues with a spotlight on Fatminds. An enterprise customer for over seven months, Fatminds has developed an interesting solution using Alfresco that seeks to serve the continuing education industry. Adult students looking to continue their education are often shocked when the search process turns out to be frustrating and time-consuming. Alternatively, [...]

The summary from the first day can be found here: Alfresco DevCon San Diego Day 1 Summary – Level Up. The second day of Alfresco DevCon in beautiful San Diego started with Jeff Potts making some announcements, and asking the audience to make pledges to help the community for a chance to win some of the “attitude” T-shirts. [...]

We just wrapped the 1st day at Alfresco DevCon in San Diego, and what a day! So if you missed, here are some of the highlights… To give you some perspective in the overall setup of the event, I have to start saying that the conference is looking amazing… Level Up is the theme this year and it plays with [...]

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A few weeks ago Alfresco released an application for iOS devices. It’s available for free right now in the Apple App Store. If you’ve ever used Zia’s FreshDocs, a mobile app that demos hitting an Alfresco repository via CMIS, you’ll recognize a…

I finished reading Alfresco 3 Cookbook, by Snig Bhaumik, a while ago and I’ve been remiss in getting my review posted. Disclosure: Packt sent me the book for free. Alfresco 3 Cookbook is the latest entry in what is now a fairly voluminous catalog of …

I’ve just added a new AMI for Alfresco 4 onto my Alfresco EC2 Images list. Running these files is now even easier, based on the method used by Eric Hammond’s alestic.com, with a link next to each image that allows you to click directly through to t…

Alfresco recently presented at the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit in London, UK. The summit is designed to help IT and business execs optimize their investment in cloud-based systems. Topics ranged from the consumerization of IT and social content management, to case study examinations of security and governance issues. We presented “Alfresco’s Guide to Anger [...]