2. Capability Paper
Alfresco ‘Turbo-charged’ By InfoAxon
Powerful Open Source Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration are becoming more and more vital, even to small and medium organizations. As
the amount of content produced increases, demands from knowledge workers to intelligently store, manage, share and benefit
from organizational knowledge raises manifolds. That‟s where familiar solutions within organizations such as shared drives and
simple workflow quickly become inadequate.
Alfresco applies open source technology to address these issues and offers complete range of collaborative content
management capabilities ranging from document management, records management, image management, and web content
management coupled with web2.0 collaboration.
Alfresco is world‟s leading Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Platform. Since its first release in 2005,
Alfresco has rapidly evolved into a full-blown ECM platform and a leading open source alternative for enterprise content
management such as Microsoft SharePoint.
InfoAxon & Alfresco – ‘Whole Solution’ to your content & knowledge
management needs
Organizations are looking for flexible, open and cost effective platforms to manage the productivity of their Knowledge Workers and
to meet the demands of external stakeholders such as partners, vendors and customers.
Three trends are unmistakable:
Move from traditional ECM suites to flexible Open Source Platforms
Driving Innovation with more of Open source
Lowering costs using Open source intelligently
Alfresco is leading the change with above trends.
InfoAxon has deep understanding and expertise around Integration of Alfresco ECM Platform with other open source products /
frameworks and also extending Alfresco to incorporate your business use cases.
While most organizations interested in open source content management would pick Alfresco like any other product the fact
remains that the solution around Alfresco requires integration of some key other open source or proprietary technologies. Our
Alfresco Integration services provide an innovative „Whole Solution‟ to your business problems by either enhancing Alfresco further
or by integrating it with other open source frameworks such as Portal, BI, CRM etc. This is a unique differentiator which InfoAxon
brings to the market converting Alfresco as a technology to a proper KM platform for your enterprise.
Our existing Alfresco based implementations has resulted into business solutions which could be quickly customized and enhanced
for your business scenario
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3. Capability Paper
Knowledge Management Platform „fusionKM‟
Collaborative Document Management Platform „AxonShare‟
Document Scanning and Processing
Integration of Portal Frameworks with Alfresco: Alfresco Liferay Integration
Advanced Reporting in Alfresco Share
Search Engine Enhancements & Federated Search.
Content/Repository as a Service.
Alfresco With InfoAxon: Reduce Risk,
Maximize Opportunity
Using its unique combination of Alfresco expertise and deep
understanding of open source model, InfoAxon helps organizations
conceptualize, design and deploy open source collaborative content
management solutions. This has far reaching effects in
ensuring the achievement of business outcomes through a proper
Solution rather than just product deployment.
InfoAxon‟s „Alfresco Integration‟ services help organizations extend the
value of their Alfresco deployments by ensuring proper
design, architecture, enhancements and integrations with other
enterprise applications to deliver production grade Alfresco
solutions.
InfoAxon has proven expertise in delivering following solutions leveraging Alfresco:
Knowledge Management
Web 2.0 Collaboration using Alfresco Share
Document Management
Records Management
Digital Assets Management.
Integration with Portal, Reporting, Social Network frameworks such as Liferay, Pentaho, BIRT etc.
InfoAxon has successfully delivered collaborative content and knowledge management solutions leveraging Alfresco across industry
verticals such as:
International Development & Government
Financial Services and Insurance
Retail and Manufacturing
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4. Capability Paper
Solution Design & Architecture:
InfoAxon brings its expertise and know-how in Alfresco framework coupled with deep understanding of open source development
model, to ensure that the right design & architectural foundation is put in place first based on customer‟s business and IT roadmap.
InfoAxon offers following:
Solution conceptualization
Information Architecture Design
Scalability, Performance and Capacity Planning
Security Model Design
Content Modeling
Business Ontology / Taxonomy Design & Development
Workflow Design, Business Process Management (BPM) using jBPM
Collaboration Flows & Structure
Interface Design & Flows
Alfresco Integration & Development
Like most solutions, Alfresco ECM implementations are not one-size-fits-all and
typically requires integration of some key other open source or proprietary
products / frameworks / components to provide an innovative „Whole Solution‟
to business problems.
InfoAxon works closely with its customers to ensure the right solution is
designed for a given business problem / scenario. InfoAxon provides following
services:
Pre-built Integration with:
Portal Frameworks – Liferay, JBoss
Business Intelligence & Reporting – Pentaho, BIRT
Groupware – IBM Lotus
Enterprise Applications – CRM, ERP, CMS
3rd Party Applications – Document Scanning, Imaging and Processing
Enterprise Authentication - LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, Sun
Directory Server
Single Sign On (SSO) - CAS
Custom Integration & Development leveraging:
REST Services and/or Web Services
Repository as Service
Java, JavaScript APIs
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Platform independent data
JSON
XML
ATOM
Platform Independent Protocols
HTTP
REST
SOAP
Alfresco Customizations & Enhancements
There are occasions when Alfresco ECM could be deployed as Solution in itself without much integration and further development.
However the solution requires customization of existing Alfresco functionalities and some enhancements to create a Solution
fulfilling the needs of the customer.
InfoAxon has deep understanding of Alfresco internals and have done several customizations and enhancements, some of which
have been committed into main Alfresco Codebase such as Alfresco Ajax based Calendar.
InfoAxon provides following services:
Alfresco Explorer & Share Customizations
JSF, Spring, SURF, YUI, XFORMS
New & customized Dashlets, Pages, Site Templates
UI changes and branding
Custom Tasks and Workflows in jBPM
Action Handlers
Task Assignments
Notifications
Business Rules
Alfresco Enhancements:
Using Web Scripts via REST based services, Aspects
Embedded Reporting with Alfresco Share – Charts, Graphs, Automatic PDF
conversion
Embedded PDF Toolkit – Merge, Split, Insert PDF, PDF Watermarking, PDF Encryption, Digital Signatures
Automatic Email Tagging
Organizational Hierarchy incorporation
Permission Model Enhancements
Search Engine Enhancements
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Alfresco Solution Deployment & Support
Once the Solution has been conceptualized and developed, its important to have the right deployment on the production
environment to ensure the performance and scalability of the integrated solution.
InfoAxon has successfully delivered Alfresco solutions across the globe in several verticals, to medium and large organizations, and
catering to various problem domains which has resulted into extensive experience of production grade deployment, support and
maintenance.
InfoAxon provides following services:
Packaging of Integrated Solution as „One Single Alfresco Solution Stack‟ covering
RHEL, CentOS, Windows
Alfresco Share
MySQL, Oracle,
jBOSS, Liferay, BIRT, Pentaho
Content Migration and Upgrade Management
Production Environment Design & Architecture
Performance Tuning
Capacity Planning
Content Backup & Recovery Strategies
Monitoring
Bug Fixing
Business Continuity: SLA driven Support & Maintenance of entire Alfresco Solution Stack
Pre-Integrated Alfresco Solutions
Our existing Alfresco based implementations has resulted into business solutions which could be quickly customized and enhanced
for your business scenario
Knowledge Management Platform „fusionKM‟
Collaborative Document Management Platform „AxonShare‟
Document Scanning and Processing
Integration of Portal Frameworks with Alfresco: Alfresco
Liferay Integration
Advanced Reporting in Alfresco Share
Search Engine Enhancements & Federated Search
Content / Repository as a Service
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Document Scanning & Processing Integration with Alfresco Share
Digitization of documents offers many benefits such as:
Reduced Filing, Storage, and Distribution costs
Faster and reliable access to documents through centralized Search
Automated Workflows based on business processes
Regulatory Compliance
However in case the paper document captured electronically through scanning does not become part of the enterprise content
management system for further retrieval and business process automation, the Value of the captured document is lost. At InfoAxon
we firmly believe that Knowledge gets created only when:
Metadata gets applied to a piece of content
The content becomes part of a business process where it could be contextualized
For this it is necessary to have a Single Integrated Platform which provides an integrated capability to digitize paper document
through scanning, document separation, indexing (metadata extraction), release of electronic document into the content repository,
retrieval through single Search, and above all the electronic document becoming part of the business process workflow.
The lifecycle of the scanned document could be further managed through the use of „Record Management‟ capability of Alfresco.
Record management ensures that a record lifecycle staring from record capture, management, control to final disposition (archive,
destroy etc.) be applied to the records.
InfoAxon has integrated 3rd party OCR software with Alfresco Share which allows physical paper scanning, indexing and storage as
a workflow driven process.
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9. Capability Paper
Open Source Platform for Knowledge Management
fusionKM is a Knowledge Management platform – using the platform organizations can quickly establish internal KM solution
and develop their internal business process and taxonomy. It allows organizations to create departments, networks, projects,
groups and enables users to work in a collaborative environment.
The platform is offered as an in-premise SaaS model. The whole stack is maintained and managed by InfoAxon.
Social Network Solutions in today‟s days create Networks, enables users to collaborate in a highly interactive fashion; but rarely
they are useful in terms of Knowledge Management aspects. In other words, today‟s social network platforms do not cater to a
major business problem – Knowledge Management. fusionKM enables organizations to establish a number of networks and groups
within and thus enabling all the knowledge sharing and management aspects.
fusionKM allows users to conduct single point and comprehensive search not only from the in-premise knowledge bank but also
from the wide spread internet sources. Automatic and intelligent search engine enables users to find the desired information quickly
and efficiently. The rich knowledge repository of fusionKM constitutes of Wikis, Blogs, Documents, Discussion Forums, EMails,
Media files etc.
The Knowledge Network
Like a social networking platform, in fusionKM, people can make friends, join any groups or communities – thus creating their
individual network. fusionKM introduces Knowledge Network which is, for a person, the whole knowledge base of his/her social
network. Now a person‟s knowledge is not limited to him profile only; but his whole social networks constitute his knowledge base.
fusionKM enables organizations to create groups, departments, locations, projects – and users contribute in these thus creating
knowledge contents. Users can be friends to each other thus expanding their knowledge network.
Organization‟s knowledge thus keeps on building in a single repository on a highly collaborative and web 2.0 enterprise portal
framework.
Solution Highlights
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
The solution is designed and architected in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA),
making it fully extensible and integrated with organizations internal and legacy
systems.
Repository as Service
The full knowledge repository can be exposed as REST based HTTP services,
making the solution ready to serve as knowledge provider to other systems.
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Business Process
Features
Friends
The integrated business process engine can be configured to implement any workflow
Communities/Groups
processes of any industry or organization. It has integrated modules for Reporting, Timesheet,
Sub organizations
Project Management, Task Management, Escalation etc. /Locations
Integrated Search
engine
Portal Graphical
Full featured JSR complaint portal framework with lots of built in applications such as Wiki, Representation of
Blog, Discussion Forum, Calendar, Theme, Web CMS, Document Management, Private Knowledge/Network
Messaging etc. Contextualized Search
Tagging/Tag Cloud
Public, Private contents
CMIS Portal Framework
Wikis, Blogs
CMIS complaint platform enabling interoperability between other Enterprise Content Discussion Threads
Management Systems. Dynamic Document
Metadata
Document Check-In /
Protocols Check-Out, versioning
A number of industry standard protocols such as WebDAV, IMAP, CIFS, FTP etc are supported Document
in fusionKM making the platform pluggable to other complaint systems. Transformation, PDF
generation
Image Processing,
Intranet ready Transformation
Automatic/Custom
fusionKM is a fitting solution for organization wide Intranet setups with multiple branches,
Workflows
departments and geographically distributed. Private Messaging
Bookmarking
Mesh Ups Image Gallery
Related Documents
fusionKM has built in applications to integrate with several other popular information and Tree-style Folder
structure for documents
knowledge sources; such as Bing, Youtube, Flickr, Delicious, Wikipedia etc.
Granular and
Customizable
Permissioning model
Open Platform Notifications, Calendars,
Events
No limit in number of users and knowledge content size and space. Search by Synonyms
Dynamic Portal
Themes
Separate Themes and
Navigations for
groups, locations,
communities
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Powerful Web CMS
Benefits for Portal pages
Public, Private,
Restricted groups
For Users Saved Searches
Custom Taxonomies
Reduces time required to complete knowledge intensive work User Folksonomy
Increases “trust level” in information accuracy and timeliness JSR Portal
Eases burden on subject “experts” since users can get answers and guidance to their framework, Portlets
Full Text Search
questions on a self-serve basis
CIFS document
access for Intranet
For Administrators setups
Templates
Minimal resources required for ongoing maintenance as many tasks can be scheduled for Dedicated, private
automatic rule based execution space for users
Security inherited from content source, so administrators do not have to worry about
unauthorized users gaining access to sensitive information The Technology
Comprehensive toolkit for building, supervising and managing the Enterprise Portal
Liferay® Portal
For Organizations Alfresco® ECM
Open Office
Improves ROI of knowledge asset management by reusing information instead of JBPM
reinventing and searching for it JQuery, YUI
Reduces cost of retaining intellectual capital and transmitting it to new employees or Lucene
successors MySQL
Quick and Easy installation and use across the enterprise Apache Tomcat
All resources and knowledge under a single umbrella
Flexible licensing and pricing model
Based on full Open Source – Full ownership, no vendor lock-in
Full featured Corporate Intranet platform
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14. About InfoAxon Technologies
InfoAxon is a leading provider of enterprise services and business
solutions powered by open source. We design, architect and support
complete “Enterprise Solution Platforms” using Open Standards, Web 2.0
next generation technologies and Open Source Frameworks providing
end-to-end solutions to business problems.
India‟s First Global Open Source Integration Company
We are India's First Global Open Source Integration Company providing
business solutions in areas of Content & Knowledge Management,
Web2.0 Collaboration and Business Intelligence powered by our
unique open source „Platforming‟ expertise.
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