Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation: How to customize, use, and administer this powerful, Open Source Java-based Enterprise CMS

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eBook Jun 2009 600 pages 1st Edition

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eBook Jun 2009 600 pages 1st Edition

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Manage your business documents with version control, library services, content organization, and advanced search
Create collaborative web sites using document libraries, wikis, blogs, forums, calendars, discussions, and social tagging
Integrate with external applications such as Liferay Portal, Adobe Flex, iPhone, iGoogle, and Facebook
Automate your business process with the advanced workflow concepts of Alfresco 3
Fully revised and updated for version 3.0, covering Alfresco Surf and more

Description

Alfresco 3.0 has generated a lot of curiosity with its new content management features. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with the security, dashboards, and configuration features of Alfresco 3. Alfresco 3 includes Alfresco Surf, a new N-Tier Architecture, which delivers scalability and accommodates more users on existing hardware resources. This new release also includes a draft implementation of the CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support. The new multi-tenancy features enable Alfresco ECM to be configured as a single-instance multi-tenant environment. This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management in your business using Alfresco 3. It covers the enhanced document management, a new web-based collaborative application called Alfresco Share, and various integration options with external applications. Alfresco 3 offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) by providing an open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, and Interwoven. It is the most popular Java-based CMS with over 1.5 million downloads, 50,000 live sites, 74,000 community members, and with more than 150 application extensions in forge. This book guides you through creating smart, collaborative content repositories and shows how to use Alfresco 3 to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes. The book also explains how administrators can set up Alfresco 3 for multiple business units as a single-instance multi-tenant environment. Business users can leverage Alfresco Share, a new built-in web-based collaborative content management application bundled with Alfresco repository. It simplifies capturing, sharing, and retrieval of information across virtual teams. This book shows you how to unleash the power of Alfresco 3 to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise

Who is this book for?

This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users, and business owners 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. The 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. Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help developers to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.

What you will learn

Working with users and membership accounts, including LDAP integration and single sign-on
Using Alfresco 3 as a smart document repository; working with automatic version tracking and control, and accessing the repository from the Web, shared network folders, FTP, or Microsoft office tools
Making content easy to find using search, content categorization, and metadata
Automating document management tasks with business rules and complete workflows
Working together using Alfresco s collaboration and syndication features to create effective working groups
Customizing the user interface, creating your own dashboard layouts; presenting content in custom ways relevant to your business
Integrating external applications such as Liferay Portal, iPhone, Face Book, iGoogle, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Flex, and Ffmpeg video transcoder with Alfresco
Setting up a single instance multi-tenant system, configuring Alfresco as an in-bound email server, and setting up an audit trail

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Paras Jain Feb 10, 2011

This book is a good read for Alfresco beginners as well as for the people having prior knowledge of Alfresco. It covers basic installation instructions as well as relatively advanced topics like WebScripts, Workflow management, Share etc.I have not read the whole book but only a few chapters. It has given me good conceptual understanding of various topics.The book is not complete by any means. In my opinion, no book on Alfresco can. Because there are so many settings and configurations you have to take care of that couldn't be covered in a book. You will have to resort to google, forums and other sources. But this book is a good attempt towards that. I like that the authors have included many screenshots and code-snippets of configurations etc. It would be very helpful for the beginners.

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Daniel Gradecak Sep 04, 2009

When I started reading this book I had the sentiment it will be a comparison between the JSF UI client and Share. However, the authors guide the reader through the complete deployment lifecycle, from the installation of Alfresco and MySql to the usage of the exposed interfaces or protocols like CIFS, CMIS and the new Sharepoint protocol.If you are new to Alfresco you can learn how to customize Alfresco UI or how to configure a SMTP server to work with Alfresco. Users, groups, permissions, roles, authentication and security are well explained, and there are enterprise use cases that can help the reader to put his hands in practice. Integration with LDAP (OpenLDAP and AD, chaining), JAAS, Kerberos, NTLM is completely described and SSO with CAS will help you to round the picture.This book is not only about explaining what Alfresco is and can do, but it will help the reader to chose the best solution for his installation. Users migration is a big thing for a lot of companies and you will not regret to read this book in order to learn how to do that.There are also advanced parts like creating custom models, categories, workflows with jBPM. In the chapter 9, the authors show how to integrate external applications with Alfresco. Integrations through webscripts with Droopal, Joomla, FLEX, emails, iPhone, Google, Facebook are very attractive and could be easily extended to a high level enterprise application.In the next chapter (10), it is clearly explained how one can benefit from the MS Office integration with Alfresco and how to use the Sharepoint protocol, in order to be able to use several repositories with one user interface.What I did like, simply because I do not have much experience with yet, is the OCR integration the chapter 13. So, scanning and optically recognizing text in documents could be one of the last steps in your document management integration and if you need video or audio transcoding than I can only recommend this book.In my opinion this book could be useful for system administrators, new and advanced users, as well as managers willing to use a open source content management system in their company.

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