Content Circles and Alfresco Partner

Content Circles, a provider of distributed content management and collaboration solutions, and Alfresco Software announced a partnership to bring to market a new content management and collaboration solution to serve distributed teams. The new solution, a Connector to integrate Alfresco Enterprise Content Management system and Content Circles distributed team collaboration SaaS, enables distributed teams to securely share, collaborate, track and manage content within and across companies, working online or offline. Content Circles uses a unique hybrid web/peer-to-peer (p2p) approach to make distributed team collaboration across companies seamless, secure and auditable. By automatically encrypting, replicating and synchronizing content across only team members’ computers, Content Circles keeps everyone on the same page while providing confidentiality and security. As a “secure bridge” between Alfresco Enterprise Content Management system and external team members, Content Circles also keeps track of all activity on content originating from Alfresco and provides complete auditability for compliance and regulatory purposes. To securely collaborate on documents in Alfresco with external team members, a user of Alfresco first downloads and subscribes to Content Circles, a simple one-time process that takes a few minutes to complete. The user then creates a ‘Circle’ (workspace) for collaboration and invites others to collaborate in the Circle. The user then simply drags in relevant documents from the Alfresco repository into the Circle to make them instantly accessible to all invitees to the Circle. The content management capabilities of Content Circles then allow the user to track the movement of these documents as well as any edits or changes to these documents. Content Circles also remembers that the documents originated in the Alfresco repository and allows the user to synchronize the changes back to Alfresco with a single click in Content Circles. The Content Circles Connector for Alfresco is expected to ship in June 2009. http://www.contentcircles.com