Thursday, November 29, 2007

Alfresco makes ECM easy

In yesterday’s post on Collaborative Thinking, the themes throughout the blog were collaboration and using free social networking software to rise to Enterprise 2.0 online. The goal was to propel corporation to begin the journey on Enterprise 2.0. Alfresco's making it easier.

Alfresco has teamed up with Facebook and created a platform that can satisfy a company’s need for enterprise content management. Below is their application architecture. It serves with all the regular functions of Facebook, and allows all employees to see the enterprise content. The benefits of this new collaboration on Facebook:

  • Application registration
  • Facebook authorization and single sign-on
  • FBML support
  • Facebook model support including:
    • Friends
    • Application Friends
    • Users
    • Mini Feed
    • News Feed

The majority of your employees know how to use Facebook. Could this be the right solution for your EMC online?