Technologically speaking, a document management system has been created to provide the knowledge management that will use Free Software standards and technologies.

This system allows the needs and characteristics of SMEs concerning knoledge management problems to be met by resolving difficulties that SMEs have when implementing this kind of system within their organization.

Given that this is a project based on Free Software, all the tools and results emerging from the project will be available to the general public, with usage rights free of charge under a GNU GPL version 2 licence.

The OpenKm software can be downloaded quite easily and should only take a moment using a broadband connection. OpenKM is based on J2EE technology and the JBoss application server. The OpenKM can therefore be installed and run on various platforms.

OpenKM is 100% Open source with Commercial support by contrast the OpenKM free is unsupported and intended for developers and technical enthusiasts.

OpenKM architecture is based on the following technologies

JBoss 4.2.3_GA, Java J2EE ( JDK 1.6 ), Jackrabbit
GWT ( Google Web Toolkit - Ajax ), Hibernate, Lucene Text Search Engine
POI File Format Conversion,OpenOffice
jBPM, KEA, Weka, Aperture, Rdf2go, Openrdf

OpenKM Supported Interfaces

Webdav, Webservices

Operating system support

We recommend the use of Unix for cost / power and greater operating system stability.
MacoOSX, Unix, GNU/Linux
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

Backend storage repository

Either a local filesystem or DBMS can be used to store information:
Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL Server

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