Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 enables organizations to control costs and increase productivity through:

• Fast deploymentthat  delivers immediate business value: Alfresco’s Web 2.0 functionality enables businesses to rapidly rollout collaborative content solutions with ease;
• Supports initiatives for knowledge retention, best practice and virtual teams: Teams can collaborate virtually from home and accross networks, as well as retain knowledged and more effectively access best practice information;
• Cost reduced to operating expense rather than capital expense: Alfresco’s open source subscription model allows customers to implement an enterprise wide collaboration tool at a low cost without incurring capital expenses (cap ex) associated with traditional licensing models;
• Re-use of existing investments in hardware and software: Alfresco’s open standards architecture enables organizations to leverage existing investments in hardware and software;
• Use existing skills: Utilize internal developers, DBA and systems administrators skills sets; and
• Quickly create new applications to support departmental requirements: Alfresco supports rapid application development with components produced using lightweight, standards-based scripting as opposed to a proprietary stack tying customers into a single vendor and the related maintenance costs.