1. ALFRESCO LUNCH AND LEARN – FALL 2010
Scott A. Davis
Sr Director of Solutions Engineering, Alfresco Software
Justin Knotzke
Senior Web Architect at TechSolCom
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3. WHAT WE DO
Alfresco provides the complete Commercial Open Source Suite of
Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Document Records
Management Management
Content
Repository
Web Content
Collaboration Management
4. WHO WE ARE
>2m downloads
─ 150,000 Community Members
─ 64,000+ Live Sites
─ 200 Forge Applications
─ Over 1,000,000 active users
1300+ Enterprise Customers
─ Major Financial, Governments
─ Media, Publishing, Education
─ OEM Users in 182 Countries
Customers in 43 Countries
Business Model
─ Subscription vs. License
─ “Every Year is an Election Year”
Veteran Management & Engineering Team
6. ALFRESCO WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Alfresco Web Content Management Platform
Roadmap/Investments in:
─ Web Content Authoring
─ Web Content Production
Web Content for Spring
─ SpringOne 2GX
─ http://www.springone2gx.com/conference/chicago/2010/10/home
Introducing Web Quick Start:
─ Web Quick Start Installation & Configuration
─ Web Quick Start Developer Guide
─ http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start
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7. ALFRESCO RECORDS MANAGEMENT
Records Management
- is the process of identifying, classifying, archiving, preserving, and
destroying records.
- Governance, Retention, Compliance
First ...
- DoD Certified Open Source RM Solution
- CMIS-enabled RM Solution
Designed for ‘Ease of Use’
- Rules processing for auto-filing, metadata collection and rendition
generation
File records from
- Web (In RM Site or from other Share Sites)
- Email – IMAP Support
- CIFS – Shared Network Drive
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8. WHO’S USING ALFRESCO FOR RM?
• American Registry for Internet Numbers
- Located in VA; responsible for managing
IP addresses
- Move to v4 (next gen of IP) – Membership
Agreements will need to change
- Alfresco RM to manage Corporate
Contracts
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (DOE)
- Conduct unclassified research across a
wide range of scientific disciplines
- Paper Archives and Records Group
- AP documents - receipts, invoices, etc.
- Data from PeopleSoft to Alfresco
• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Kansas Department of Corrections
• Clackamas County
• Connecticut DMV
• Cigna
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9. WHY ALFRESCO?
Minimize Risk
─ Download and use today
─ Secure content
─ Comply with regulators via audits and record management
─ Dual licensed
Consolidate and Simplify
─ One repository, built from the ground up to support ECM
─ Standards based APIs to integrate third party products
─ Interact with the repository via products users are already familiar
with
─ Built on technologies IT teams are already familiar with deploying
Subscription Model
21. WCM Quick Start
Best practice WCM implementation
Authoring and delivery
o Authoring extensions for Alfresco Share
o Spring MVC web application, Surf and CMIS
No core product changes, only extensions, built on Alfresco
3.3.0
Core product
o Documented
o Install Guide, User Guide, Developer Guide
o Supported
o Evolve with the product
Enterprise and Community
Utilizing the default store (not AVM)
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23. WCM Quick Start - Features
Website Features (partial)
Valid XHTML Strict, CSS driven Accessibility
templates using jQuery UGC – Comments, ratings,
Fully dynamic site - sections and report post
pages
Site Components
3 level navigation with cache
o Featured News Carousel
Hierarchical template resolution o Latest News
based on section and type o Latest Blog Articles
Home Page, News, Publications, o Related Content
Blogs, Contact o News – All sections
Site Search o Tags
Sample content – easily re- o Featured Content
purposed
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24. WCM Quick Start - Features
Editorial Features (partial)
Editorial management via Preview
Alfresco Share and Alfresco Web Publishing mechanism
Editor (AWE) UGC – Manage comments via
Simple, automated installer Share Data Lists
Automated site creation – Automated image resize
sample content types and o Renditions automatically generated
content Associations Management
Default site structure and Manage section, type and
sample content template mappings
Content Collections Content Tagging
o Hand picked by editor
o Dynamically generate
o CMIS and Lucene search
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