You're reading from Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation With Alfresco 4 you can manage content across the enterprise more effectively and corroboratively. This book helps you achieve great results, however basic or sophisticated your needs, with a hands-on, training course approach.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782160021

Length 514 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Alfresco

Concepts

CMS

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Alfresco FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing Alfresco

3. Getting Started with Alfresco

4. Implementing Membership and Security

5. Implementing Document Management

6. Implementing Business Rules

7. Extending Alfresco Content Model

8. Implementing Workflow

9. Integrating External Applications with Alfresco

10. Alfresco Administration Operations Using Alfresco Share

11. Customizing the User Interface

12. Search in Alfresco

13. Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing

14. Administering and Maintaining the System

Index

Chapter 1. Introduction to Alfresco

Enterprise content management (ECM) is the fastest growing category of enterprise software. Customers who are implementing or upgrading ECM systems are facing issues such as vendor lock-in, high maintenance costs, and lack of standardization. Open source technologies and open standards are becoming powerful alternatives to commercial closed-source ECM software. Alfresco being a stable player in this market has gained a lot of momentum by providing content management solutions to enterprises using open standards and open source based technologies. Alfresco is positioned as "Visionary" in Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (as per Gartner's ECM report 2012).

The latest release of Alfresco has an Enterprise Edition as well as a Community Edition. The Alfresco Community version is an unsupported product and is designed for use by developers and technical enthusiasts in non-critical environments. It serves as the research vehicle for new features and as the platform for the Alfresco Community. Constant innovation of the Alfresco Community renders a daily build, offering the latest functionality.

The Alfresco Enterprise Edition is production ready, stress tested and certified build that is supported by Alfresco Software Inc. It is fully a supported, Alfresco product that can provide support to corporations and governments that require commercial Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

This chapter provides an introduction to Alfresco and outlines the benefits of using it for your enterprise's content management requirements. It also introduces the features of the latest release of Alfresco, Version 4.2, as of May 2013.

By the end of this chapter you will have learned about:

The overview of Alfresco
Key features of Alfresco software Version 4.2
Alfresco products including Alfresco Mobile and Alfresco Workdesk
Using Alfresco for your document management, business process automation, records management, team collaboration, web publishing, secure file sharing, and mobile content management requirements
The future roadmap

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Chapter 1. Introduction to Alfresco

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