Alfresco offers a true Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.

Alfresco uses best-of-breed Open Source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, modern standards such as JSR-168, JSR-170, Web Services, Java Server Faces and contributions from the open source community to get higher quality software produced more quickly at much lower cost.

Alfresco allows users to access a simple to use, Intelligent Virtual File System from their native application or portal with the full power of an Enterprise Content Management System.