Implementation of Alfresco's document management software into University institution

Nowadays the amount of information and documents in business is exponentially increasing and productivity depends significantly on the availability of the right information at the right time. The traditional way of doing business prevent systematic access and manipulation of information. Documents are often lost, employees spend too much time to get information and there is no easy way to manage security and access rights to documents and information. The solution lies in use of a content management system. Alfresco ECM (Enterprise Content Management) is the leading open source document management system. It offers document management, digital content management, record management, web content management, collaboration portal, business process management and more. The open source architecture allows a design of custom solutions and simple integration with other systems or office applications such as Microsoft Office or OpenOffice tools. Introduction to Alfresco and its functionalities suitable for implementation into University institution are given, including proposition of appropriate architecture.