Replacing Sharepoint with Alfresco

[thejavafreak]

Dear all,

I want to migrate our existing Sharepoint with Alfresco? Some features that is helpful for is on Sharepoint is the Web Content Management where it is able to display the company news. From what I know Alfresco is only capable of storing documents (CMIIW). All in all, is it possible to migrate Sharepoint to Alfresco? Does Alfresco has all the basic functionality of Sharepoint?

Thanks in advance

[jbarmash]

Alfresco has feature parity with SharePoint on majority of collaboration and other types of features.  If you have specific functionality you are interested in, I can provide more details. 

As far as migration, any migration would be non-trivial for any system.  You need to map content models together, understand how to map metadata, etc. 

Relative to Web Content Management, we don't do just document management.  Alfresco has a full-blown enterprise level Web Content Management solution.  In my opinion, it is a more sophisticated platform than SharePoint, where MOSS 2007 is the first attempt at integration of Microsoft's Content Managment and SharePoint, and has many limitations for many cases.

[ben]

In addition to the above information, here are some useful WCM links -

WCM Features Overview - http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Content_Management

Developers Documentation - http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WCM_Developer_Documentation

Regards, Ben.

[anna_kane]

If I were you, I wouldn't do that, just yet. See my venting on the other post.

[fretief]

Hi,

As stated in another post, the list function in sharepoint is one of the most useful functions as you can create custom lists with custom fields ; calculation fields and then run workflow on them.

As far as I can see Alfresco cannot do any of there?

[jseyfried]

is there anyone to answer the question for the list functionality?

in my opinion this is pretty powerful and would be a ko-criteria for deciding against alfresco. But if there is any workaround….

[mikeh]

It's on the Roadmap for Q3/Q4 2009: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Roadmap#Planned_Q3.2FQ4_2009

Thanks,
Mike

[mrogers]

But if there is any workaround…

The lower level services that will be used for list processing such as content modeling, workflow and associatiation management are already part of Alfresco.   The new piece of work in Q3/Q4 will be to add a UI and a small amount of code to make "list" functionality easier to get at and use.  

So a workaround is very possible,  i'm sure people already have "list" like applications on Alfresco.