5 reasons why should you be using open source content management system?

Written by openappdotorg

April 17th, 2007

There are several techniques or methods one can use to accomplish
certain productivity task. To manage documents, organizations can use
plain document repository or document module as found in popular CRM
systems such as SugarCRM or Salesforce or can think of full fledged
best-of-breed content lifecycle solution.

Choice is largely a function of business process maturity and level of
automation desired. So the question is at what stage you would need a
grown-up enterprise strength content management system like Alfresco?

If following are some of the pains you are having then probably you are ready for Alfresco open source CMS:

1. Document management is in chaos. To tame this chaos company needs versioning, workflow control and archiving solutions.

2. Not ready for the rich media based IT architecture.
With explosion in video, audio and rich content based on flash
components, companies need a common platform to manage them and do it
in a way which will enable flexible content repurposing.

3. Document Interoperability - wide support for document conversion capability. PDF, Word, OpenOffice, etc

4. Number of disparate websites keep growing
- challenge of managing multiple websites from a single system. This is
by far the most common problem causing stale web content.

5. Compliance management.
Record keeping and archiving is a painful but necessary step in staying
clean on the legal front. There is not much choice here thanks to
Sarbanes Oxley.