<p>Earlier in the month former Alfresco CEO John Powell outlined a change in the business direction of Alfresco that will take it to and IPO in US and a wider global presence. Today, Doug Dennerline announced the acquisition of Germany-based WeWebU that will expand its enterprise portfolio for content management. Alfresco, WeWebU</p><p>Financial details of the deal were not announced so there's not much to be seen there, but according to Dennerline, WeWebU will add configurable role-based file and transactional content management capabilities on top of the Alfresco platform.</p><p>That Alfresco bought WeWebU is not exactly a surprise. The two companies have been working together for quite a while, both are open source vendors working in the enterprise CMS space, and WeWebU became a certified Alfresco Gold Partner in the middle of 2012.</p><p>By achieving Gold Partner certification, WeWebU was able to not only develop and build an enterprise content management system using its own WeWebU OpenWorkdesk, but could also provide ECM based on the Alfresco platform.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/document-management/alfresco-snapsup-open-source-wewebu-for-hybrid-cloud-content-and-mobile-management-019400.php">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Alfresco-Acquisition-Powers-Next-Generation-4238809.php">Alfresco Acquisition Powers Next Generation Business Applications</a> (San Francisco Chronicle)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dW1xiZkTe7iKTRMfk9b7JvBK3mVmM&ned=us">2 additional articles.</a></p>