With the introduction of the Alfresco Web Content Management (WCM) Preview, the company now offers a complete open source enterprise content management suite, including collaborative document management, records management, e-mail archiving and image management.

Alfresco points to the following features:

• virtualization server,
• multisite transactional publishing,
• Web content compliance server,
• 100 percent standards-based, and
• high-availability, highly scalable platform.

User features include:

• standards-based forms to create pages;
• simple, multichannel XML publishing;
• e-mail-based production workflow;
• in-context review;
• integrated support for content managers, contributors, reviewers, Web designers and application developers in one repository;
• parallel branching and merging;
• dependency management; and
• pre-built templates and Web site components.