Alfresco is an open
source enterprise content management system. That means, Alfresco can
be used to manage the content in an enterprise. Lets try and
understand Alfresco in simple language.
Suppose there is an
enterprise named “xyz”. It has many branches in many cities
across the globe. The Director of the company wants to share a
document with everyone in the sales department. One way to do this is
to mail the document to every single person in the sales department.
Better and simpler way would be to upload the document in a central
repository such that every person in the sales department can access
that repository through a login id and password. Alfresco provides
this central repository where one can upload his/her document and
make it available to his/her colleagues.
Basically in Alfresco
there are spaces called sites. Lets say we create a site in Alfresco
named “sales”. We can add as many members to this site as we
want. We can add all the people in the sales department in this site.
Every site has a document library. One can upload any document in
that site. Once a document is uploaded in a site, everyone in that
site will get a mail that a document has been uploaded in “sales”
site by “abc”. Now everyone
in the sales site would be able to view that document. This has made
our work a lot easier.
Apart
from this there are lots and lots of features that Alfresco provides.
Above feature was just a minute example.
Alfresco
is totally built on JAVA. So that also makes it special because it
inherits the features of JAVA
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