Surveying Collaborative and Content Management Platforms for Enterprise

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.