Product overview

OpenKM is a Open Source electronic document management system, which, due to its characteristics, can be used by large companies as well as by the small ones, as a useful tool in knowledge management processing, providing a more flexible and lower-cost alternative to other proprietary applications.

The use of knowledge management systems by a company helps it to manage intelligence on the resources available to the company, more efficiently. This leads to a medium-term increase in productivity. Using these systems, the information, as well as the knowledge generated within the organization, can be universally accessed.

Using OpenKM to manage documents at your company, will be easy. One of our major goals is the usability case study. OpenKM is a document management application with a web user interface that allows the following operations to be carried out: sharing, setting security roles, auditing and finding enterprise documents and registers. With OpenKM users can easily collaborate and communicate.

Documents are not created or consumed in a vacuum – information is created for a purpose. The flow of documents through the business cycle can be managed and tracked. From initial capture and creation, sharing and collaboration, across approval, review and revisions.

OpenKM ensures information workers can find, use, share and secure valuable corporate content. Information assets contribute to on-going business. Collaborating on new or existing documents is central to how users engage with corporate information. Secure interactive repository connect teams to their critical, even across the most distributed, decentralized organizations. 

OpenKM is offered on a wide range of different supports adapted to the needs of major organizations.

The source code is available to the community, which can freely use, modify and redistribute it under the GNU General Public License version 2 license.

From OpenKM version 4.0 is distributed only in one version with all enhancements. 

 

Share and collaborate

Help users save time by finding the right information when it is needed. Empower teams to share, access, enrich and store high quality content in a single place. OpenKM can manage all of your organization's documents and valuable intellectual assets in a secure document repository built to scale across the enterprise.

Create, share and enrich documents within team collaborative workspaces, ensure appropriate approval and reviews with intuitive workflow.

Process and review

Documents requiring structured approvals, reviews or sign-off benefit from the JBPM workflow capability. Document lifecycles can be tailored for your unique business environment, quickly configured or templated to reflect internal procedures and to meet your legal compliance requirements.

Search and find

With the OpenKM search, documents are easily found and retrieved by querying content or metadata. Frequently run queries can be saved and re-used.

OpenKM special configuration and extra services

  • OpenKM - hosted. ( Include hosting, and backup service ).
  • OpenKM - cluster ( For great infraestructures make your your document management system scalable ).
  • OpenKM - mirror ( Ensure your system is always up, preventing hardware system falls ) .

Professional payment services

  • OpenKM is 100% open source with commertial support. OpenKM Team offers professional supporting are available on any certified OpenKM configurations.
  • OpenKM Network - Knowledge base and Online documentation ( anual subscription )

Why use OpenKM ?

  • Low cost
  • Robust architecture. Scalable architecture, allows OpenKM to work on a cluster configuration.
  • Easy to install: You can be up and running in less than 5 minutes.
  • Easy to use. One of our major goals is the end-user interface. Your users will very quickly understand and use OpenKM.
  • Integrated with your infrastructure ( Windows, GNU / Linux, Unix, etc. )
  • Capable of integration with thirdparty software
  • Support installations.
  • Innovate. Your opinion is important for us. You can participate in project innovation. We periodically ask community and end users their feelings about how they think some function should change and be improved.
  • Growing user community
  • Source code is available ( non-enterprise-dependant ). This means high-quality releases, because  it has a great testing time.
  • OpenKM modules are shared with the community
  • Collaborative solution. Increasing communication channels between OpenKM and end users.
  • We are not evil; comertial users can become free users without any problems.

What are the benefits of support access ?

Priority support access is only available on certified OpenKM installations.

  • Prevent losing information.
  • Guaranteed response times
  • Installation support
  • Migration support
  • Tuning support
  • Patches between releases. Any issue reported is resolved quickly.
  • Support with integration projects: we make our team of developers available to you to participate in integrating and modelling specific projects at your company with OpenKM.
  • Upgrade support
  • Testing production installations ( environment, backups, etc. ) We certify that everithing is properly running.
  • Remote monitoring of your system

  For more information about priority support access, take a look at the Professional support website section.