Alfresco Keeps Up Its Forward Momentum

Posted by Peter Hagopian, Jun 18, 2008 10:12 PM

Despite the notable departure of a few key executives over the past few weeks, Alfresco, the open-source enterprise content management provider, has kept up its forward momentum with the well-timed announcement of two significant deals with Activision and Adobe.

The first was the official announcement that Alfresco WCM (Web Content Management) has been selected to power Activison's intranet and a series of new consumer-facing sites. I say official announcement because the first of these sites launched back in December 2007. To take a look at how Activision implemented the Alfresco solution with its integration partner Cignex, a Webinar will be available June 24 at 12 p.m. EDT at cignex.webex.com.

The second, more interesting deal is with Adobe. Adobe LiveCycle Update 1, due out in July, will include an integrated version of Alfresco WCM, as well as a number of other improvements and new features.

ReadWriteWeb's Sarah Perez has a good overview post on LiveCycle Update 1, which covers its improvements across the board, including the Alfresco features:

"The LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES) is a solution designed for developers which makes it easier for them to build those user-friendly forms that bring a little Web 2.0 to the less exciting (but arguably more important) things you do online -- things like filling out forms for your bank or insurance company, for example.
The new suite, LiveCycle ES Update 1, will add Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES, a content services solution based on an embedded version of the open source Alfresco ECM ... This component includes content storage, versioning, check-in/check-out, collaboration, advanced classifications, search, archival, and a variety of UIs, and Microsoft Office plug-ins and shared network folders."

Alfresco continues to be a very interesting player in the enterprise content management space for a number of reasons, not the least of which is their open-source (not to be confused with free, however) approach. The trial version of its core WCM software is worth checking out.

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