Surveying Collaborative and Content Management Platforms for Enterprise

Salsabil Dhouib (1) , Riadh Ben Halima (2)

1 REDCAD - Unité de Recherche en développement et contrôle d'applications distribuées
2 LAAS-SARA - Équipe Services et Architectures pour Réseaux Avancés

The continuous increasing of the information quantity in enterprises encourages the adoption of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) that evolves as an integrated approach to information management. By observing the trend toward adoption of Web based collaboration tools in the enterprise, we focus, in this paper, on ECM platforms that involve collaboration and content management aspects in an integrated solution. Thus, to help enterprises that want to move toward a collaborative ECM platform, we provide a detailed analysis of the following ECM platforms: Alfresco, Nuxeo and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Then, we proceed to the evaluation of Alfresco and MOSS as they are the most used. This allows us to choose the platform that fit most the context of industrial engineering design offices. Therefore, we explored their customization possibilities to meet those offices' organizational requirements. We conclude that MOSS is more appropriate to that context. We carry out experiments on a sandboxed solution on-premises (Microsoft SharePoint 2010) and on Cloud (SharePoint Online) to demonstrate that, on Cloud, we can have a better performance associated to a cheaper cost.

Mots clés: ECM; MOSS; Alfresco; Nuxeo; Cloud Computing; SharePoint Online; Comparison

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Salsabil Dhouib, Riadh Ben Halima. Surveying Collaborative and Content Management Platforms for Enterprise. IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises ( WETICE ), Jun 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia. 8p. ⟨hal-00812686⟩