Archive for the ‘ECM’ Category

• KnowledgeTree

  Date: 2010.10.06 | Category: ECM | Response: 2

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  KnowledgeTree is a provider of online document management software. According to the company, because the software is delivered as a software as a service (SaaS) offering, business professionals can easily use it without help from IT. The product makes use of the cloud computing platform from Amazon EC2. KnowledgeTree’s features — including workflow, document alerts and version control — are designed to help organizations manage business processes around documents in addition to enabling file sharing among teams. The service is available on a subscription basis.

  KnowledgeTree is a US company with headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company also has an office in Cape Town, South Africa.

  There is also a free, open source community edition that is written in PHP and uses the Apache Web Server and MySQL database management system. A multi-platform installer provides end-users with a one-click install of both the underlying LAMP or WAMP stack and the application itself.

  Features

  The product provides the full range of document management functions, such as checking documents in and out for editing, version control, access control through roles and permissions and an intuitive structure for viewing documents. Additionally, KnowledgeTree offers integration with the Microsoft Office suite of applications so that users can access documents stored in the KnowledgeTree repository through the familiar Microsoft interface.

  In addition to the web-based interface (which supports HTML5 drag and drop), a cross-platform desktop explorer tool also allows access to the online repository from Windows, Mac and Linux clients.

  KnowledgeTree also includes workflow functionality along with notifications and alerts that allow reminders to be sent to users for document actions. It supports collaboration around documents using email and a familiar discussion “feed”. REST and SOAP interfaces make it easy for KnowledgeTree to be integrated with other applications.

  Official Site: KnowledgeTree Website

  

• Nuxeo

  Date: 2010.07.23 | Category: CMS, ECM | Response: 0

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  Nuxeo is a comprehensive free software / open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. It has been designed to be robust, scalable and highly extensible, by using modern open source Java EE technologies, such as: the JCR, JSF, EJB3, JBoss Seam, OSGi, and a Service Oriented Approach. It can be used to develop both web-based server applications and Rich Client applications.

  It currently covers the following functions of the ECM spectrum:

  • Document management
  • Collaborative Work
  • Business process management (workflow)
  • Compliance
  • Records management
  • Digital asset management (DAM)

  Architecture

  The Nuxeo platform has the following parts:

  • Nuxeo Runtime: this layer allows the whole platform to be easily deployed on different Java application containers (a Java EE 5 application server, an OSGi container such as Eclipse, etc.). It features a plug-in mechanism that any component can use to declare extension points that can be used by other components to extend the former one.
  • Nuxeo Core: an embeddable document management core that provides the necessary low-level services to define, store, manage, audit and query content.
  • Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (EP): provides high-level content management services, including: indexing and search, workflow, relations, transformation, audit, etc. These services are provided to remote clients using several distributed computing protocols, such as EJB remoting, RESTful and SOAP web services.
  • Nuxeo Rich Client Platform (RCP): a desktop (rich client) platform built on top of Nuxeo SP.
  • Nuxeo WebEngine: a lightweight content-centric web framework to quickly build and deliver next generation content-oriented web applications.

  Awards

  • 2007
    • Red Herring 100 Europe Winner.
    • Jax Innovation Awards Nominee.

  • 2008
    • EUREKA: the Nuxeo project was awarded by the EUREKA European R&D programme.
    • “PM’UP”: Nuxeo was awarded by the Paris Region for its contribution for economic development.

  • 2009
    • Intelligent Enterprise 2009 Editors’ Choice Awards.

  • 2010
    • Intelligent Enterprise 2010 Editors’ Choice Awards.
  

• Alfresco

  Date: 2010.07.22 | Category: ECM | Response: 0

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  Alfresco is an enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco comes in two flavours. Alfresco Community Edition is free software, LGPL licensed open source and open standards. Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially & proprietary licensed open source, open standards and enterprise scale. Its design is geared towards users who require a high degree of modularity and scalable performance. Alfresco includes a content repository, an out-of-the-box web portal framework for managing and using standard portal content, a CIFS interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web content management system capable of virtualizing webapps and static sites via Apache Tomcat, Lucene indexing, and jBPM workflow. The Alfresco system is developed using Java technology.

  Usage

  Enterprise content management for documents, web, records, images, and collaborative content development.

  Features

  Alfresco is capable of the following:

  • Document Management
  • Web Content Management (including full webapp & session virtualization)
  • Repository-level versioning (similar to Subversion)
  • Transparent overlays (similar to unionfs)
  • Records Management, including 5015.2 certification
  • Image Management
  • Auto-generated XForms with AJAX support
  • Integrated Publishing
  • Repository access via CIFS/SMB, FTP, WebDAV and CMIS
  • jBPM workflow
  • Lucene search
  • Federated servers
  • Multi-language support
  • Portable application packaging
  • Multi-platform support (officially Windows, Linux and Solaris)
  • Browser-based GUI (official support for Internet Explorer and Firefox)
  • Desktop integration with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org
  • Clustering support

  Alfresco has won over 18 various awards over time.

  

• Hippo CMS

  Date: 2010.07.21 | Category: CMS, ECM | Response: 0

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  Hippo CMS is an opensource information centered Content Management System. The Hippo CMS project was initiated and is maintained by Hippo. It’s targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like web sites and intranets. It facilitates an open and flexible way of using your information by following international accepted open standards.

  Architecture

  The Hippo product suite or Hippo ECM (Enterprise Content Management) comprises a collection of components which by means of separation of concerns maximizes extensibility, interoperability and scalability.

  Open Source and Open Standards

  Hippo CMS is user friendly, has an Technical Architecture and is designed for interoperability with existing environments. Hippo CMS is built to integrate external sources of content into one. Therefore, it uses all relevant open standards to allow this integration. For many existing sources, connectors are available in the codebase.

  The open architecture of Hippo CMS has the following key points:

  • Faceted repository
  • Open source
  • Content repository API for Java, JSR-170
  • Works with open standards
  • Reuse of content
  • Separation of content, design, logic and the CMS itself.
  • User friendly user interface
  • Native XML, 100% Java
  • No vendor lock-in

  Open source projects

  Hippo CMS is based on several proven open source projects, mainly the following from the Apache Software Foundation:

  • Wicket
  • Cocoon
  • Jackrabbit
  • Apache Webserver
  • Apache Jetspeed
  • Ant
  • Avalon
  • Lucene
  • Maven
  • Xerces
  • Xalan
  • FOP
  • Batik

  Hippo CMS is, like the projects listed above, available under the Apache 2.0 license. It also uses Xinha for editing rich text fields, which has a BSD license.