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Alfresco

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description Alfresco Overview

Alfresco is an open-source content management system designed for document and digital asset management, often deployed as a “ghost CMS” where developers primarily utilize its APIs to build custom applications rather than directly managing the core interface.

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Is Alfresco a headless CMS?

Alfresco is primarily an enterprise content-services and document-management platform, not a narrow headless CMS like Contentful or Strapi. Developers can use its REST and CMIS APIs as a headless content source, but the core platform also includes repositories, metadata, search, and governance. [Alfresco Content Services documentation](https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/7.0/)

Is Alfresco open source or commercial?

Alfresco Content Services has a Community Edition with open-source code and commercial enterprise offerings from Hyland. The edition affects support, features, and licensing, so saying only that Alfresco is open source is incomplete.

What can Alfresco store and manage?

Alfresco documentation describes repositories for documents, images, video, audio, metadata, and full-text indexes, with document management, collaboration, governance, and search. It is designed for enterprise content workflows rather than only publishing blog posts.

How do applications connect to Alfresco?

Applications can use REST endpoints under /alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1, and Alfresco also supports CMIS. Most repository calls require authentication, so a headless integration must handle access control and session or token management. [Alfresco REST API guide](https://github.com/alfresco/docs-alfresco/blob/master/content-services/6.2/develop/rest-api-guide/install.md)

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