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Alfresco Web Content Management

The web has undergone a number of major evolutions. With Web 1.0, Amazon radically reset expectations around the focusing on leveraging the web and rich content to promote easy user self-service. Technology requirements for Web 1.0 focused on enabling organizations to easily create and manage rich content using basic publishing oriented content management systems. This content fed into dynamic websites custom built by teams of web developers.

Web Content Management 2.0 is as big a shift both in technology and customer expectations. Today consumers are used to using Google Maps, GMail, Blogger, Flickr, del-icio.us and Wikipedia. These new services, associated with a new generation of websites popularly known as Web 2.0, have again reset expectations creating a fundamental shift in both technology requirements and associated organization requirements for content management. These have had a fundamental effect on user's expectations in the areas of Rich User Interface, Participation, Community Services, Categorization and Trust - all built on a decentralized infrastructure.

• Rich User Experience
• Dynamic Architecture for Participation
• Collective Intelligence and Trust
• Cost Effective Scaleout
• Loosely Coupled

Alfresco is built on state-of-the-art open source components such as Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, JSF - often the components of choice website developers today. It offers one repository for the whole team. This repository is a modern platform for Web Content Management 2.0 with

• The industry's most scalable JSR-170 content repository
• High-Availability, Fault Tolerance and Scalability - Any number of sites, auto failover and clustering
• Multi-Site Change Set Management - Support for projects, sandboxes, changes sets, layers and snapshots
• Multi-Site Transactional Publishing - Guaranteed delivery to multiple run-time sites
• Virtualization Server - Preview web 2.0 sites updates in context. View site in past, present or future
• Deployment Server - Transactional deployment and rollback of site snapshots to a run-environments for scalable content delivery
• Web Content Compliance Server - Integrated snap-shotting, auditing and Records Management
• Business Process driven Web Content Management

• Time - Weeks to hours for change sets to be deployed
• Cost - One Virtualization Server
• Quality - One repository. One virtualization preview
• Compliance - Common Governance Framework. One virtualization server for past, present and future, Service Oriented Auditing, Migration - Simple file based migration