Alfresco
Document and content management for organisations.
Overview
Alfresco is a content services platform for storing, organising, searching and sharing documents. It provides version control, metadata, workflows and permissions so that important files are managed in a controlled way.
The Community Edition lets you evaluate and run a full document management system on your own servers.
Where it is used
- Office document management
- Approval workflows
- Records and policy libraries
- Digital archives
Getting started
- Download the Alfresco Community deployment (Docker Compose) from the official Alfresco documentation.
- Start the containers and log in to the Share or Digital Workspace interface.
- Create sites and folders, then upload content.
- Set up users, groups and permissions.
What you will cover
The key topics and features of Alfresco
Document Repository
A central, searchable store for files and folders.
Versioning
Track every change to a document.
Workflows
Review and approval processes for documents.
Metadata & Search
Find documents by content and properties.
Permissions & Sharing
Control who can view or edit content.
REST API
Integrate with your own applications.