02 Jul 2007
Open-source enterprise content management startup Alfresco Software is edging deeper into the Microsoft world with its version 2.1 release to be formally announced this week.
Alfresco chief technology officer John Newton said the new release will include a Microsoft Office plug-in and extensive Web 2.0 capabilities that will let Alfresco and other web interfaces work inside Office.
“So far, [Microsoft] SharePoint has had a lock on integration in Office but with 2.1 we’ll be able to apply ECM routines against Office documents,” Newton said.
“There’s a whole new world of Web 2.0 that demands lightweight, mashable services. People are beginning to ask, ‘can I take my content and make it available as an Ajax pop-up or in my enterprise portal?’”
The release will also offer deeper support for the OpenSearch protocol so that searches can be combined across distributed repositories.
Alfresco claims over 300 paying customers and over 12,000 operational servers. Many of the firm’s leading engineers formerly worked at Documentum and Interwoven respectively.
Have your say on this article
Newsletters
Latest stories from Applications
Latest videos
You may also like
Applications jobs
Technology Patent Wars
Case studies from large organisations across all sectors
... And rich media, and flexible working, and peaks in traffic ...
Upcoming Events
Join us for this Computing web seminar, in which the Head of BI at the Co-operative Group Nick Colebourn will be explaining just how he reigned in the Group’s sprawling database estate and how significant savings were realised and data quality improved as a result.
Date: 31 May 2012
Time: 11:00 AM
Live June 13th 11:00am: Register now. During this web seminar we will be looking at the sorts of incidents that can bring data centres grinding to a halt and what can be done about them.
Date: 13 Jun 2012
Time: 11:00 am
Receive the latest jobs direct to your inbox
Are you being paid what you are worth?
