Why Open Source as a Document Management Alternative?

KnowledgeTree is a powerful, feature-rich, and easy to use document management system designed to help small to medium-sized organizations control and manage document collaboration, versioning and security.

KnowledgeTree is a turn-key Document Management solution designed specifically for small to medium-sized (SMB) organizations and departmental users.

• KnowledgeTree utilizes familiar document and folder concepts, ensuring that your training overhead is kept to a minimum. KnowledgeTree does not require an experienced software developer to setup the document taxonomy and configure custom document control workflows, merely utilize our easy-to-use administrator tools to map your organization's document types, custom metadata and workflows in to the KnowledgeTree document repository.
  
  
• Since KnowledgeTree is designed for smaller organizations such as yours, it does not require the services of an experienced systems engineer to install and configure and maintain. When you install KnowledgeTree on your own premises, a single installer download provides you with the KnowledgeTree document management server, the powerful Apache webserver and the popular MySQL database server. Install with a single-click and there is no need to install and license expensive infrastructure software such as a database server.
  
  
• The KnowledgeTree Document Management Server is a commercial open source application. Being Open Source means that you are not locked in to a single vendor: you have a perpetual license to the application's source code and may modify and use it free of charge. Open Source also means the freedom to easily integrate the application with your 3rd-party applications and having access to a vibrant community that publishes free to use and modify extensions and enhancements for the KnowledgeTree Document Management application. KnowledgeTree is written in the very popular PHP language which provides a powerful, stable application environment with low-barriers to entry.
  
  
• Since the KnowledgeTree Document Management Server is a commercial open source application you may purchase a commercial subscription from the team that developed the application, ensuring that you have priority access to our support engineers.
  
  
• KnowledgeTree is available in your language. There have been over 25 language translations of KnowledgeTree developed and made available on the KnowledgeTree Community Forge. KnowledgeTree has been translated into most major European and Asian languages and many smaller language groups.
  
  
• The KnowledgeTree Document Management Server is a cross-platform web-based server application that runs on both Microsoft® Windows® and various Linux distributions. The source distribution of KnowledgeTree may be installed on many other operating systems. Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server may only be installed on Microsoft® Windows® Server operating systems.
  
  
• Since the KnowledgeTree Document Management Server may be installed on a variety of operating systems including Linux, your document control solution needn't require you to make significant capital investment in infrastructure. This low-infrastructure requirement means that you may even install KnowledgeTree in a rented shared hosted environment.