Who this book is for

This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users, or developers who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free, many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any upfront cost, often without management approval. This book assumes a degree of technical confidence, but does not require specialist system administration or developer skills to get a basic system up and running.

Alfresco is particularly suitable for IT consultants who want or need to set up a flexible enterprise content management system for their clients, be that for demonstration, development, or as a mission-critical platform. This book gets you to that result quickly and effectively.

This book also helps business users to make decisions about migrating from the existing proprietary ECM to Alfresco 4.

This book is not a developer guide. However, various examples in this book will help developers to extend Alfresco's functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.

Although no knowledge of Alfresco is presumed, exposure to HTML, XML, JavaScript and related web technologies will help you to get the most from this book.