Alfresco created collaboration system for SMB

Alfresco's content management and collaboration system gained its big popularity thanks to the low pricing and availability of free open-source edition. But still it's pretty complicated solution that doesn't fit small business. But now Alfresco decided to fix this issue and released Alfresco Team which is designed for content collaboration in departments and small companies. It reminds Sharepoint Team Site or Box.net, but more functional and cheap. Users can create sites (workspaces) with different pages - document libraries, calendars, wiki, task lists, blogs, forums. Alfteso Team's functionality includes social tools (comments, ratings, Like buttons), activity streams, web-viewer (which lets you view even videos and audio files), mobile versions for iPhone and iPad, workflow-engine (implemented on Alfresco BPM), document converter (eg doc -> pdf).



It's also integrated to Google Docs. The document is stored in Alfresco Team can uploaded Google Docs, collaboratively edited there (in real time) and saved back to the Alfresco Team.

Alfresco Team has no separate free open-source version. It's features will be synced to Alfresco Community. However Alfresco Team provides the full-functional free version up to 5 users. The paid version costs $199/user/year. But if you have many users - this price may drop more than 2 times. You can use the solution either on your own server, or on Amazon EC2.

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