Shared drive interface

• Web content authors can access and contribute content via a shared drive interface
• Use your tool of choice for authoring and viewing with no additional installation or training
• Widespread user adoption through the simplicity of the shared drive

Sandboxing, staging and virtualization

• Simply preview in-context changes to any web page or web application
• Reduce the risk of error with simple a virtualization of changes against a live site
• Publish your complete change set to the staging area and virtualize the staged area

Multilingual management

• Multilingual translation workflow support

Surf platform

• NEW! Lightweight web application platform that allows developers to quickly build their presentation layer using web scripts – no server restarts!
• NEW! Reusable library of presentation elements including pages, templates, components, themes, chrome, forms and navigation.
• NEW! Out-of-the-box Site Dispatcher that is preconfigured to work seamlessly with the suntel's repository, enabling the presentation of content and authentication against users.
• NEW! A rich configuration environment enables Surf components to “talk” to multiple back-ends including non-suntel repositories via JSON, XML, ATOM and CMIS.
• NEW! Enables developers to take full advantage of rich browser presentation libraries including Yahoo! UI and Adobe Flex.
• NEW! Fully compatible with suntel WCM sandboxes, virtualization and deployment.

Shared drive interface

• Use your tool of choice, such as Dreamweaver, for web interface development with no additional installation or training
• Existing web applications can be dragged and dropped into the repository

REST architecture

• Use a URL interface to rapidly and simply mashup Alfresco gadgets, and other web applications, across multiple technologies

Preview and Test web applications

• The ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, JSF, Tiles, Struts, Groovy and .NET

Site templating and branching

• Rapid creation of new sites from existing templates and the ability to baseline major site updates by branching existing site

Reuse of assets

• Simple updating and sharing of content across web projects

Integrated code and content management

• Single repository for code and content

Integration with enterprise portals

• Standards-based JSR-168 and REST-based integration

XML authoring and multi-channel publishing

• Form authoring using industry-standard XML schemas
• Automatic user interface rendering based on the XForms standard
• Automatic creation of multiple formats for multiple channels

Features that administrators like

Configuration for deployment on web farms

• Advanced deployment rules for scalable, three-tier web application architectures with partitioned, replicated deployment

J2EE architecture

• Highly scalable, clustered architecture using commodity software and hardware

Versioning and rollback of whole sites

• Simply rollout a new site with automatic site versioning
• Legal compliance: simply and immediately rollback to the exact state of a website at any point in time
• Disaster recovery: simply rollback to the last know stable version of the site

Content lifecycle management

• Controlled and audited content development through creation, review, approval, timed launch, expiration, retention and archiving

Change set management

• Transactionally publish a set of changes to one or more web sites

Security

• Security and user management with users, groups and roles
• Single sign-on through NTLM or LDAP

Integrated enterprise content management

• Integrated transformation services: Office to ODF/PDF, PowerPoint to Flash