Alfresco 1.4 Preview Now Available

September 7, 2006; 09:15 AM
Alfresco Software Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution,  announced the availability of the Preview Release of Alfresco 1.4. This is a major release significantly expanding both the depth and breadth of Alfresco in the $3.9BN Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market.

Alfresco's focus on "Production Ready Open Source" has made it the leading open source choice for companies' and governments' critical content centric applications. This leadership is now extended into complex workflow, records management with state-of-the-art service oriented auditing and image capture integration.

"The rapid rate of innovation and delivery validates our approach and the open source model versus proprietary vendors," said John Newton, chief technology officer, Alfresco Software Inc. "Our commitment, not only of open source, but to open standards such as JSR-170, ODF, DOD 5015.2, Java, Web Services or REST architectures, provide customers with real choice and flexibility across the whole ECM stack."

The highlights of the release include:

--  Complex Workflow Support -- JBoss jBPM Integration with JavaScript
    action integration for sophisticated lifecycle management support
--  Records Management -- Extended Rule Activation, Retention and Archival
    Policies, DOD 5015.2 definitions, Fileplan support
--  Service Oriented Auditing -- Audit of every service invocation with
    full query-based reporting
--  MyAlfresco Dashboard -- Dashboard support for workflow tasks, status
    and also repository reporting
--  Image Capture Integration -- Kofax integration
   

"The expansion of the suite places us at the centre of a growing $3.9BN market," said John Powell, CEO, Alfresco Software Inc. "Our focus on 'Production Ready Open Source' and the extension of the suite, further enhances our position as the only open source ECM alternative. Our previous release took the number of downloads of Alfresco to more than 350,000. We see 1.4 taking us over the half a million landmark. This demonstrates the power of the open source model in transforming a market previously dominated by legacy, slow moving, and proprietary vendors."

About Alfresco Software, Inc.

Alfresco Software Inc. is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfresco.com