Alfresco Releases Enterprise 3.1

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced that it has launched Alfresco Enterprise 3.1, the latest release of its ECM product. Alfresco has also concurrently launched the Alfresco Network, a one-stop resource portal available exclusively to enterprise customers, designed to continually improve the customer experience. Alfresco Enterprise 3.1 delivers greater scalability, high-availability and large-scale management. This release includes features that simplify administration, monitoring, deployment as well as maintenance and will be available exclusively to enterprise subscription customers. New features, in addition to those from the Alfresco Labs 3 final release, include: Easy Clustering and High-Availability – Simple large-scale multi-server management allowing customers to set up clusters and high-availability environments; System Monitoring – JMX-based monitoring that includes simple access to database connection and memory usage information, as well as integration to and open source monitoring tools such as Hyperic; Deployment and Provisioning Automation – Command line-driven configuration providing automated deployment and provisioning; Extensions to Alfresco Share – Extensions to the new collaborative content management application. Improved online viewing of documents, easier online editing, improved Wiki contribution, new themes and skins; Improved SharePoint Protocol Support – Improved implementation of collaboration, site and link features in Microsoft Office; and, Extended CMIS Support – Expanded implementations of the web services implementations of the draft OASIS CMIS 0.51 standard. The Alfresco Network is a new personalized Customer-to-Support collaborative service designed to accelerate the time it takes for a customer to become productive while reducing the time it takes support to resolve issues. In addition, Alfresco is building an automation network to proactively alert the customer and provide Alfresco Support with relevant information to enable a more rapid response. Alfresco Enterprise 3.1 is immediately available for all existing Enterprise Subscription Customers and the Alfresco Network is currently being rolled out to selected customers and will be available to all customers in the next month. A trial of Alfresco Enterprise 3.1 can be downloaded. http://www.alfresco.com