Access content wherever and however you work with open, flexible, highly scalable enterprise content management
Alfresco Content Services includes full-featured enterprise content management system (ECM) capabilities that let you work with your content from within the world’s leading productivity suites and tools—without switching applications. Take full advantage of modern content services by building applications on the Alfresco Cloud (PaaS).
Alfresco ECM system features
As a flexible, scalable ECM platform, Alfresco Content Services supports a range of use cases including content services, information governance, contextual search and insight, easy integration with leading business applications and much more.
Open, easy to integrate and extend
Built on an open source core with support for open standards and APIs, the Alfresco platform is easy to integrate and customize to meet your business needs.
- Open, modular architecture and ReST APIs and SDKs allow you or an Alfresco partner to extend your Alfresco platform to meet business requirements.
- The Alfresco Development Framework provides a wide range of highly configurable, reusable components that you can use to create modern, responsive web and mobile end-user applications.
- Out-of-the-box support for leading productivity applications, including Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Microsoft Outlook, Salesforce.com and more.
- A wide range of pre-built integrations and solutions from the vibrant Alfresco partner community, including SAP, AutoCAD and more.

Scalable, cloud-native architecture
Alfresco’s open and modular approach provides you with a scalable content services platform that can handle the growing volume of unstructured content and billions of documents, and a cloud native architecture that lets you take full advantage of content services.
- Alfresco integrations let you meet application and compliance storage requirements with your cloud vendor of choice with connectors for Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Glacier and Microsoft Azure.
- Automatically enrich content and gain valuable insights with AI and natural language processing with AWS modules like Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Rekognition.
- Flexible deployment options, including Docker and Kubernetes for fast and standardized deployments across all environments.

Enterprise search – performance at scale
Find the exact document you're looking for quickly — whether you have thousands of files, or hundreds of millions of files in your document management system.
- The Alfresco Query Accelerator features functional query sets to improve search performance at scale by querying properties and aspects of metadata across large volumes of information.
- Powerful search features like instant search suggestions and filters let you retrieve relevant content faster.
- Alfresco Federation Services offers an easy way to search and manage content across more than 60 world-leading business enterprise document management software applications (like Documentum, OpenText and IBM FileNet).

Enhance information governance
Alfresco Governance Services provide you the ability to simplify and reduce business risk while strengthening compliance. Automate your lifecycle management from capture through retention to final destruction, and remove the complexity of records management from users.
- "Invisible information governance" approach allows records to be managed in the background as users continue to work.
- Gain a framework to meet records management and open government compliance standards worldwide, including ISO 15489, ISO 16175, FOIA, U.S. DoD 5015.02 CH2 and CH3, EgovG and MoReq.
- Easily add a layer of security with security classifications and marks.

Extend collaboration and user efficiency
Empower teams with dedicated project sites and rich collaboration tools and make it easy for them to work on documents together, share knowledge and stay in sync.
- Native integrations into common cloud office suites like Microsoft 365 and Google Docs support real-time collaboration and document co-authoring with intuitive out-of-the-box experiences optimized for everyday tasks.
- The Alfresco Digital Workspace increases productivity through quick, easy access to files and workplace items and lets you extend applications to meet specific user needs and enhance content management capabilities. Built on the Alfresco Developer Framework.
- Alfresco Desktop Sync ensures content and governance policies are synchronized between Alfresco and user desktops, even when working offline.
- Alfresco Mobile provides on-the-go, fast access to content and a seamless enterprise content management interface with intuitive controls designed for mobile devices.

Next-gen content services platforms: A cloud-native advantage over legacy ECM
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Enterprise content management case studies
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ECM resources
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