Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) 2007 A.M.I.E.T.E Computer Science & Engineering cms - Question Paper

Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management system. It's primarily implemented in Java, suited to a number of environments including J2EE and brings together the best of other open source projects in order to give a complete set of Content Management solutions. It is not tied to any particular web browser, operating system, application server or database.
Alfresco is a free software, open source, open standards, enterprise scale content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Its design is geared towards users who require a high degree of modularity and scalable performance. Alfresco includes a content repository, an out-of-the-box web portal framework for managing and using standard portal content, a CIFS interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web content management system capable of virtualizing webapps and static sites via Apache Tomcat, Lucene indexing, and jBPM workflow. The Alfresco system is developed using Java technology
History
Alfresco was founded in 2005 by John Newton, co-founder of Documentum and John Powell, former COO of Business Objects. Its investors include the investment firms SAP, Accel Partners and Mayfield Fund. The original tech. staff consisted of principal engineers from Documentum, and Oracle. While A fresco’s product was initially focused on document management, in May 2006, it announced [2] its intention to expand into web content management by acquiring senior tech. and managerial staff from Interwoven; this included its VP of Web Content Management, 2 principal engineers, and a member of its user interface team. In 2007, Alfresco hired the principal sales engineer from Vignette.
Usage
Enterprise content management for documents, web, records, images, and collaborative content development.
Alfresco Features
Alfresco is capable of the following:
• Document Management
A document management system (DMS) is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. The term has a few overlap with the concepts of Content Management Systems and is often viewed as a component of Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECM) and related to Digital Asset Management, Document imaging, Workflow systems and Records Management systems. Contract Management and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) can be viewed as either components or implementations of ECM.
In the broadest sense, document management systems can range from a shoebox [1] all the way to an Enterprise Content Management system. There are several common problems that are involved in managing documents, whether the system is an informal, ad-hoc, paper-based method for 1 person or if it is a formal, structured, computer enhanced system for many people across multiple offices. Most methods for managing documents address the subsequent areas:

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