Lately we have been exploring open source Content Management Systems. As we are in the process of updating our main website (www.docstrats.com) and need our own CMS support, we thought this would be a good opportunity to see what open source content management software is available and how capable it is.
After researching websites such as CMS Review, (www.cmsreview.com) and using another valuable website to test drive some of the packages (www.opensourcecms.com) we decided to give Alfresco a try. (dev.alfresco.com)
Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system and as such is a bit more robust than the typical CMS, encompassing features like document management in addition to web content management. Although we were new to the open source world, we were able to set up an application server running Apache Tomcat and JDK SE 1.5.
We were impressed with Alfresco’s document workflow management process and the ease with which we could set up business rules. The collaborative features also worked very nicely. It’s very handy to be able to send a request to a co-worker for help on a document from within Alfresco.
Unfortunately, Alfresco is not yet rated to work on Vista and we ran into hardware compatibility issues when trying to access the server from our Vista-based desktops. We are looking forward to exploring more open source content management systems and we will keep you aware of our results!!
-- Adam Geyer, Project Analyst, Documentation Strategies
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