Content Platform

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is extremely costly to roll out and scale, often requiring expensive hardware and supporting software in the underlying stack. The most scalable sites in the world now run on open source software. Web 2.0 sites have commoditized the scaling process in order to focus on:

Scale on a set of loosely coupled, low cost, commodity hardware and software: the open source way
vs.
Scale on high-end, high-cost, SMP machines and cluster software: the proprietary way

Alfresco Content Platform delivers content-as-a-service from the most scalable Java content repository, which is clustered, federated and replicated.

Java scalability

Alfresco Content Platform offers the most scalable J2EE content repository, reaching the around 100 million documents, according to an independently certified benchmark test conducted by Unisys Corporation.

REST mashup architecture

The new web is based on REST. To integrate external and internal applications and content, you need to adopt the same architecture: access through URL, lightweight scripts and common web standards.

Standards

Alfresco is built on standards such as REST, RSS, Atom publishing, JSON, OpenSearch, OpenSocial, OpenID, Web Services, JSR 168, JSR 170 Level 2, MyFaces, CIFS, FTP, WebDAV, DeltaV, SQL and ODF. This compliance with standards makes integration into your architecture much simpler at lower cost.

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