Content Services & Community Edition

Version Comparison

Alfresco Content Services provides open, flexible, highly scalable Enterprise Content Management (ECM) capabilities. Content is accessible
wherever and however you work and easily integrates with your other business applications.

Two Versions Available

Alfresco Content Services Alfresco Community Edition

Enterprise-class full featured ECM for Production Environments for Developers and Tech Enthusiasts

• High availability, highly customizable with simplified

administration
• Content management for non-critical environments
• Hybrid-cloud with selective content-sync to Alfresco
• Open source platform for community-driven
Content Services in the Cloud
development and contributions
• Fully modular with optional Governance Services,
• Research vehicle for new features
content encryption, analytics, media management
and more

Ideal for organizations that require enterprise-grade Use in production only if you can fully self-support.
scalability, performance and 24X7 support for See the comparison below for the enterprise-class capabilities
business-critical content and compliance. available only with Alfresco Content Services.

Detailed Feature Comparison

Alfresco
Core Capabilities Community Edition
Content Services
Robust content repository — A standards-compliant repository that supports a
wide range of features.  
Productive team collaboration interface — Alfresco Share offers a user friendly
interface for managing your content  
Productivity App integration (including Microsoft Office and Google Docs)  
Smart Folders — Show content based on metadata (not where it is stored). Add
metadata just by adding a file to a Smart Folder.  
Add-Ons — Ability to download and install additional community driven extensions  
Easy integration and extension — Create custom content models and bespoke
workflows, or easily extend with RESTAPI’s and the Application Development  
Framework
Additional security capabilities — Content encryption at rest and encrypted repository
configuration properties 
 Alfresco
Core Capabilities Community Edition
Content Services
Clustering for high availability — Simple UI based configuration of clustering 
Storage Policies — Ability to define multiple content stores based on content life
cycle requirements 
Advanced administration console — Simple configuration and management of
Alfresco sub-systems and clustering, with reduced restart requirements 
Hybrid Cloud — Synchronize content and processes between Alfresco on-premises
and the Alfresco in the cloud 
Rigorously tested and certified against multiple OS, Database and application
servers (including Oracle and Microsoft SQL) 
AWS QuickStart — Easy, supported and maintained best-practise AWS instance of
Alfresco which can be deployed in just a few simple clicks. 
Support for additional Alfresco modules (see section below for modules that can
be added) 
Standardised Single Sign-on via SAML 

Alfresco
Clients Community Edition
Content Services
Alfresco Desktop sync for Windows — Sync alfresco content to your windows
desktop for offline access. 
Mobile device content encryption 
Alfresco Mobile apps for iOS and Android (including SDKs)  

Alfresco
Support Community Edition
Content Services
Defect escalation, long term patching, Service Packs and prioritization process 
24/7 Severity 1 support 
Consulting and professional services available from Alfresco and certified partners 

Alfresco
Optional Alfresco Modules Community Edition
Content Services
Alfresco Content Connector for Salesforce — easily access Alfresco content
within Salesforce.com 
Alfresco Outlook Integration — Allows direct search, access and uploading of
email content 
Alfresco Analytics — Drive insight from content usage and optimise processes. 
Alfresco Connectors for Amazon S3 and EMC Centera. 
Alfresco Document Transformation Engine — Offering performance enhancements
and improved page fidelity for online viewing 
Alfresco Media Transformation Engine — For local video transcoding and image
redition creation 
Alfresco Index Engine — Search services clustering including Solr sharding for
performance, scalability and high-availability 
DOD 5015.02 Certified Records Management — Certified RM with security marks
and classified content management (additional details below). 
Integrate the full power of Alfresco Process Services 
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Information Governance Community Edition
Content Services
Formal Records Management — Core Records Management capabilities  
DOD 5015.02 certified Records Management — mandated for any US DOD
organisation working with Federal records 
Security Marks — Control access to content based on marks applied to content
and possessed by users 
Classified Content and Records — Set classification levels and lifecycle, including
defining security levels for users for an extra layer of security granularity over generic
UCL’s.
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