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.

Munwar Shariff

Shah

Prajapati

Pal

€49.99

4 (7 Ratings)

Paperback Jul 2013 514 pages 1st Edition

Munwar Shariff

Shah

Prajapati

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4 (7 Ratings)

Paperback Jul 2013 514 pages 1st Edition

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Manage your business documents with standard practices like content organization, version control, tagging, categorization, library services, and advanced search
Automate your business process with the advanced workflow concepts of Alfresco using the Activiti workflow engine
Manage your documents with productivity tools like Microsoft Office, Mobile Application, MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, and so on
Integrate with external applications such as Liferay Portal, Adobe Flex, iPhone, and Facebook

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Alfresco 4 has improved a lot with its new and advanced concepts for content management. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with security, dashboards, and the configuration features of Alfresco 4. Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation is a well-crafted and easy-to-use book, and it is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management for your business needs using Alfresco 4. It covers the enhanced document management, integration with standard productivity tools, and various integration options with proven external applications. This book will take you through a number of clear, practical sections that will help you to make a proper decision for your business needs using standard practices with Alfresco's Document Management and various third-party integrations You will learn how to install, administer, and manage your entire application. The concepts of mapping your business documents by extending content models and achieving your complex business process using Workflow models and business rules will be discussed in this book. Integration with various third party tools like MS Office, Mobile Application, Outlook, Liferay, Ephesoft, and Kofax will also be covered. You will learn to create your own custom workflow using Activiti BPMN 2.0 Process Designer and also maintain and administrate the entire application.This book explains everything you need to know to manage your documents using standard processes and mechanisms.

Who is this book for?

This book is designed for experienced users, business owners, or system administrators 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. You need to have a degree of technical confidence, but you do not require specialist system admin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running. Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help you to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.

What you will learn

Work with users and membership accounts, including LDAP integration and single sign-on
Make content easy to find using search, tagging, content categorization, and metadata
Customize the user interface, create your own dashboard layouts, and present content in custom ways relevant to your business
Integrate external applications such as Liferay Portal, iPhone, Facebook, PDF and image viewer, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Flex and Ffmpeg video transcoder
Set up a single instance multi-tenant system and High Availability, configure Alfresco as in-bound email server, and set up an audit trail
Learn the various options for Image and Forms Processing
Maintain and administrate all of the Alfresco systems
Use Alfresco 4 as a smart document repository; work with automatic version tracking and control, access the repository from the web, share network folders, FTP, Microsoft Office tools and Mobile Applications

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Sam Dec 11, 2013

I am an enterprise architect and I have a few Alfresco projects going on, as Alfresco is rapidly replacing Documentum, FileNet and other EDMS in many enterprises (and government agencies). So I went and bought all the Alfresco books available on Amazon, as a EA and PM, I do not have much time to learn all the new technology so I read ebooks when I have 10 minutes here and there between meetings. My surprise was that majority of the Alfresco books out there are for a older version of Alfresco (version 3), and many of the code example, deployment procedures simply would not work.So after 10+ Alfresco books, I can only recommend 'Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation' book, and there is another Alfresco 4 book, I personally like this book because it is written in such a way that is very clear, practical and easy to follow. If I would like to design the Alfresco to a backend system, I can just read the CMIS section and there is working examples that I can follow.And also I love Packt Publishing for their super easy to use eBooks app and management system and their pricing for eBooks.Thank you Amazon, Packt and Munwar Shariff for your great work and great help on Alfresco projects !!!Sam WuEnterprise ArchitectReston, VA

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mngolo Feb 21, 2015

Great book for beginners, good examples and they are easy to adapt for your personal case...

AHASH Dec 15, 2013

Written for System Administrators, Developers, and experienced users, the book provides a good overview of implementing, customizing, and administering the Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management suite. The initial chapters walk the reader through the process of installing the software (a few more screenshots for novice users may have been helpful). The configuration/usage section is very thorough and provides plenty of screenshots/explanations of the different features and options available. The workflow section is also very helpful for anyone automating business processes using the package. Finally, integration with other apps is also covered in the book (something that is often left out in books on the topic). Overall, I think the book covers the various aspects of Alfresco in great detail and would be very helpful for anyone wanting to learn more about the platform.

Johnny Gee Jan 08, 2014

If you are new comer to Alfresco, then this book is for you. It covers all the basics for Alfresco 4.1.2 Enterprise Edition. If you are familiar with Alfresco 3 or you have purchased the previous version Alfresco 3 book, there is not really much of a change. In fact, the table of contents of Alfresco 4 is pretty much the same as Alfresco 3.I got the most value out of this book from workflow and scanning solution integration.Support for advanced workflows is now provided by Activiti workflow engine. The author does an excellent job introducing BPMN and workflow basics of Activiti workflow. There are step by step instructions on how to use Activiti Process Designer to define custom workflow as well as potential extensions to the individual tasks in the workflow.There is a new chapter in this book that talks about the integration between Ephesoft and Alfresco. If you are not familiar with various scanning products like Captiva and Kofax, Ephesoft is open source product that integrates directly with Alfresco. Not only does it have basic features OCR and indexing, it also has ability to classify and automatically extract data from forms.All of major ECM vendors have advanced workflow engine and integration with advanced scanning solution. With the introduction of the Activiti and tight integration with Ephesoft, Alfresco 4 is quickly catching up to EMC, IBM, and Microsoft. I am glad that the author covered these two topics; my only wish is that he would have covered them in more detail.

cooltalk Dec 15, 2013

As the title suggests this book is written for Alfresco 4 Enterprise edition (commercial), however most of these examples should work on the free edition as well. “Alfresco 4 Enterprise content management and implementation” is probably the only Alfresco ECM book out in the market for “Version 4” as on Dec 2013. It is needless to say this book has no competition. Never the less this book is a well written one. Following Alfresco 3 Enterprise content management, which makes it the second version even more solid.This Alfresco book covers but not limited to topics such as installation, getting started, security, workflow, other application integration, alfresco share, UI customization, search, imaging and Forms Processing and systems administration. The topics are explained with appropriate diagrams, configuration screen shots, example configuration files and java scripts; which makes this book easy to follow. This book can be used as a cookbook as well.Alfresco 4 ECM can be used by the beginners as well as advanced users. This book shall help users with implementation basics, application and process integration, systems administration, as a reference book or even as a cook book for implementing certain technology or integration. Basic linux administration HTML, XML, JavaScript knowledge will be useful while following this book.Some of the chapters can be useful for business owner, process owners or project managers who wants to take full advantage of alfresco ECM, in terms of mapping business process to the application or leveraging application features in the business e.g. introduction to Alfresco, Implementing Business Rules, Implementing Workflow etc.

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.

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