In every industry, fast, reliable access to essential documents is critical to success. Yet for many organizations, document management is highly fragmented, inefficient and costly - involving a mix of paper-based and electronic records, active and rarely accessed documents, on-site and off-site storage, and multiple vendors.
Alfresco reduces your ECM costs by up to 96% compared to proprietary systems like Documentum, Open Text and SharePoint. It’s as simple to use as a shared drive or SharePoint and does not lock you in to a proprietary stack.
e-RDA has the know-how to help you make the most out of the Alfresco Platform
Alfresco is the leading open source enterprise content management system built by the most experienced team in the industry drawn from Documentum®, Vignette® and Interwoven®. Twenty years of experience drove them to believe that the Enterprise Content Management industry was driven by:
- High Cost — Application driven purchases with a high up-front investment and per user pricing
- High Complexity — Long rollout cycles and complexity resulting in software either not being implemented or used
- Lack of Customer Control — Proprietary control preventing choice and ability to switch to other vendors
- For these reasons the vast majority of people do not use ECM systems but instead work with shared drives and email to create, share and store content.
How Alfresco is Different
In the current economic climate organizations need to do more with less. Alfresco’s passion is to offer a solution that focuses on:
- Low Cost — A low cost, open source, subscription model with minimal upfront investment that can be driven out of operating expense (op ex) as opposed to capital expense (cap ex)
- Simplicity — Rapid deployment to deliver immediate business value and rapid application development using pre-built components and lightweight scripting
- Choice — Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by reusing existing hardware, software and skills. No lock-in to one ECM vendor or one stack
Overpriced, overly complex Enterprise Content Management has been commoditized and consumerized. Real people want the simplicity and familiarity of the tools they use day-in, day-out: shared drives and Microsoft Office.
Alfresco Document Management captures, shares and retains content, enabling users to version, search and simply build their own content applications - all with the tools they use today.
Shared drive
The Alfresco repository is the same as a shared drive. So out-of-the box you can keep using the authoring tools you know and like, from Microsoft Office to Open Office, Dreamweaver or AutoCAD, with no desktop installation or retraining. You just get what you want and your company wants - the ability to save, version, share, search and audit.
Integration with Microsoft Office
Alfresco integrates with Microsoft Office and Open Office. So you can continue to work in your office environment with no retraining. You just get what you want and your company wants - the ability to save, version, share, search, audit with simple workflow integration.
Rules for content applications
Alfresco turns the simple shared drive into a virtual file system where, through simple wizards, you can create the content applications you need. If you drag a document into a folder, you can start a workflow, perhaps converting the document to another format, moving it to another folder or notifying a set of users via email. Or the workflow might even extract properties, such as the author's name or other keywords, from the document so that you can use them to search for the document later. You just get the application you or your department need, all as simply as configuring an email rule.
