page_title: Alfresco Software
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Alfresco Software / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: Records management Screenshot of open source software (LGPLv3)
context_page_description: Alfresco is a collection of information management software products for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems developed by Alfresco Software Inc. using Java technology. Their primary software offering, branded as a Digital Business Platform is proprietary & a commercially licensed open source platform, supports open standards, and provides enterprise scale.
  Alfresco Software Inc. also provides open source Community Editions as free, LGPLv3 licensed open source software. These have some default restrictions in terms of scalability and availability, e.g. there is no built-in clustering support. Quality assurance by Alfresco is limited and bug fixes are only issued for the current versions. There is a community support for the Community Edition including an independent association, the Order of the Bee.
context_section_description: Alfresco is capable of the following:
  Document management
  Records management, including 5015.2 certification
  Image management
  Digital asset management
  Learning content management support for learning management systems (e.g. Moodle)
  LOR Learning Object Repository (edu-sharing)
  Integrated publishing
  Repository access via CIFS/SMB, FTP, WebDAV, NFS and CMIS
  Automating business processes with the embedded Activiti BPM engine
  Solr search
  Federated servers
  Multi-language support
  Portable application packaging
  Multi-platform support (officially Windows, Linux and Solaris)
  Browser-based GUI (official support for Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge)
  Desktop integration with Microsoft Office (available in enterprise version only) and LibreOffice.
  Online integration with Google Docs
  Clustering support
  Pluggable authentication: NTLM, LDAP, Kerberos, CAS
  Multiple database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database (Enterprise Edition), IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server (Enterprise Edition), MariaDB, Amazon Relational Database Service|Amazon RDS -MySQL]], Amazon Aurora.
caption: Records management with Alfresco
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