Alfresco or not

[andresaimar]

Hi,
I am working for a client that needs a DMS solution to be implemented in the near future.
I have made some research on DMS products and finally found Alfresco.

Despite I am very sorprised about the number of features that it has, I have some doubts about if its the right solution or not.

This is my current scenario: the client has a legacy User Management application that they developed to manage User auth, roles and permissions; they want to implement a DMS solution that interacts with this legacy application when user auth is needed. Also they want to have customizable User Interfaces to allow external clients entering to share repository and download documents. (each external client should have its own customizable UI, like having the client logo and so on).

Could anybody tell me if Alfresco would fit into this scenario? Is it possible to use the open source solution?


thanks in advance

[kevinr]

The answers are yes and yes.

Alfresco already has a number of external authentication mechanisms available in addition to the built-in Alfresco notion of a User, including LDAP, NTLM, CAS etc. So there is no reason why you could not add yours. The web-client is customizable - it's a standard Java web-app so changing logos/images/css etc. is not hard. You can also use the very flexible WebScripts to build custom UI:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts

The open source solution features all the same authentication mechanisms and pluggability as the Enterprise versions.

Kevin