Introducing Alfresco 4 - Social Content Management. Presentation of the Amplexor MINI Seminar on Social Content Management on the 26th of January 2012 in Leuven , Belgium

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2. Introducing Alfresco 4
Social Content Management
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3. Contents
Where are we coming from?
Alfresco’s major milestones
Where are we now?
Alfresco 4 demo
Where are we going?
A peek into Alfresco’s future
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4. Where are we coming
from?
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5. Alfresco’s major milestones
Founded in 2005 by John Newton (Co-founder Documentum)
and John Powell (COO Business Objects)…
…with the aim to become the leading open source alternative
for enterprise content management (ECM)…
…and even to surpass commercial ECM offerings in terms of
features, functionality and benefits to the user community.
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6. Alfresco’s major milestones
2006: Alfresco 1.4
‘Old school’ document management
2007: Alfresco 2
Focus on WCM
Introduction of web scripts
2009: Alfresco 3
Collaboration with Alfresco Share
Clustering: scalability and performance
Records management
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7. Alfresco’s major milestones
Hierarchy-driven Network-driven
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8. Alfresco’s major milestones
Systems of record Systems of engagement
Preservation and security Collaboration and sharing
Accuracy and completeness Immediacy and accessibility
Transactions Interactions
Documents Conversations
User learns system System learns user
ECM for the few ECM for the masses
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9. Alfresco’s major milestones
Based on a solid repository
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10. Where are we now?
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11. Alfresco 4 demo
A walk through the Share interface
Usability
Social collaboration and integration
Mobile access
System management and performance
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12. A walk through the Share interface
Personal dashboard
Tasks, workflows, profile
Site dashboard
Wiki, calendar, forum, links, datalist, blog
Document library
Search
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13. Alfresco 4: Usability
Drag and drop
Contextual help
Site configuration and branding
Sorting
Inline editing
Creation based on templates
Document details page redesign
Support for previewing video/audio
Geotagging
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14. Alfresco 4: Social collaboration and
integration
Following people
Activity feed enhancements
Notifications via e-mail digest
Liking content, favorites and comment counts
Social publishing and updating
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18. Before social media
Inspired by Jon Thomas
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19. After social media
Inspired by Jon Thomas
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20. Alfresco 4: Mobile access
Cook Dine Snack
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21. Alfresco 4: Mobile access
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22. Alfresco 4: System management and
performance
The ‘invisible’ features of Alfresco 4
Solr search engine
Activiti workflow engine
Management console
Transformation server
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23. Alfresco 4: System management and
performance
Solr search engine, alternative for Lucene
I I I I I
DB FS SOLR
DB FS
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24. Alfresco 4: System management and
performance
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25. Alfresco 4: System management and
performance
Activiti workflow engine, alternative for jBPM
Alfresco’s ‘Belgian connection’
Super-fast rock-solid BPMN 2.0 process engine
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26. Alfresco 4: System management and
performance
Administration console
Reduces the need for XML configuration
Eases the system management tasks
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27. Alfresco 4: System management and
performance
Transformation server
Request PDF
Return PDF
90% success rate
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28. Where are we going?
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29. A peek into Alfresco’s future
Alfresco Cloud
Public cloud: beta testing in progress
Private cloud option scheduled for the future
Process-as-a-service (Activiti – Project Pangu)
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30. Questions?
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