What is "alfresco"

Alfresco is an ECM (Enterprise Content Management - Corporate content management system) open source multi-platform. Alfresco is proposed as an alternative for managing documents, files, collaboration and also content.

Alfresco allows teams to share, manage and maintain the content of the entire company with simplicity, in order to meet the needs of end users and IT professionals.

Founded in 2005, Alfresco is headquartered in Maidenhead, outside London, with US headquarters in San Mateo.

Among the main resources are:

• Integrated and intelligent document management
• Secure sharing of documents
• Access to documents online with the desktop interface
• Document search by metadata and content
• Assigning customizable metadata to documents
• Automation of processes through workflows
• Content management from mobile device