Slide deck to accompany the recent webinar of the same name

1. What’s New in
Alfresco Community 3.4
Paul Hampton
Director of Product Marketing

2. 2010 Second Half Plans
● Alfresco Community / Enterprise 3.4
o Alfresco Web Quick Start
o Alfresco WCM for Spring
o Replication Services
o Update to Alfresco Share
● Application Extensions
o Portal Integration
o XAM Content Store Support
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3. New Web Functionality
● WCM Collaboration
● Alfresco Web Quick Start
● WCM Process Control
● WCM Services for Spring
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4. WCM Collaboration
● Editorial management via Alfresco Share and
Alfresco Web Editor (AWE)
o Full enterprise process support – manage the review /
approval process – ‘Office to Web’
o Rich collaboration environment
o In-context authoring and editing
o Support for CIFS, FTP, WebDAV, and CMIS
● Web producer
o Site creation and configuration
o Easy navigation config
o Content Collections (static and dynamic)
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5. Web Quick Start
● Example implementation
o Best practice example
o Written in Spring MVC, Spring Surf, OpenCMIS
● Combines the power of Share with OOTB template
o Workflow, team collaboration, web configuration
● Industry focused templates for...
o Government
o Media and Entertainment
o Finance
● Available for Community / Enterprise 3.4 and 3.3
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6. Architecture
Quick Start
Web Application
Quick Start Website API
OpenCMIS
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7. Image
Carousel
Easy
navigation
configuration
Dynamic or
static lists
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8. Process Control
● Advanced Workflow (for both Share and WCM)
o Exposed via collaboration environment
● Based on jBPM
● New Dashlets
o Inbox
o My Tasks – Filter by date, priority, assignee, workflow type,
etc.
● Start workflow without content
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9. Workflow – Screen Shots
Filters
Start Workflow
Manage Workflow
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10. WCM Services for Spring
● Integrates enterprise content with the web
o Single content store for DM, RM, Collaboration and WCM
● Unified content services
o End to End solution – Authoring to Delivery
o Rich Content Modelling – Associations, Behaviours,
Aspects, Rules/Actions and Constraints
o Transformation service with rendition support (images and
text)
o Transfer services for content publishing / delivery
o CMIS runtime for content delivery
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11. WCM Development
● Development platform
o Standards support – Spring, Spring Surf, CMIS, Java,
REST
o Lightweight scripting – Speed of development
o Enterprise scale content services
o Extensible (unrestricted) platform
● Spring developers tools
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12. More Information...
● Install and Configuration
o http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start_Installation_
and_Configuration
● Developers Guide
o http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start_Developer_
Guide
● http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki & Search for ‘Quick Start’
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13. Content Replication
● Distributed repository replication
o Selective replication of spaces, content and rules
o Support for full, incremental and delete
o One source – multiple destinations
o Replicas are read-only
o Update at source only (re-direct if needed)
● Benefits
o Provide fast local access
o Remove single point of failure
o Reduce wide area network traffic
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14. Content Replication
Head Office Regional Office Regional Office
SOP SOP SOP
Master Local Content Copy Local Content Copy Local Content
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15. Alfresco Share - Search
● Both Simple and Advanced
● Can search for...
o Folders / Containers
o Content (all types)
o Custom types (example ‘Contract’)
o Aspects (example ‘customer = ACME’)
o Application specific
(example ‘Contract and customer = ACME’)
● Extensible via forms
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16. Search – Screen Shots
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17. Alfresco Share Enhancements
● Redesigned UI / Toolbar
o Improved usability
o Ease of customisation and localisation
● Social and Collaboration
o User status – What are you working on
● New Permissions
o Who can create sites
o Who can see ‘public’ sites
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18. Alfresco Share – UI Redesign
3.4
Extensible Menu Status
Update
3.3
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19. Optimized Database Mapping
● Architecture Change – Remove Hibernate
o Native Alfresco schema database mapping and cache
o Optimized for Alfresco
o Improved control of cache (tuned to Alfresco DB)
o Improvements in reliability and performance
● OEM friendly license
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20. Document Library for Portals
● DocLib Portlet for JSR168 Portals
● Portlets provides access to...
o DM repository
o Share Sites
● Access full DM functions
● Single sign on (SSO)
● Available for Community / Enterprise 3.3 and 3.4
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21. Portlet – Screen Shot
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22. XAM Content Connector
● A solution for ‘Fixed Content’ –
content that will never be
changed
● Extend Alfresco
o Use Content Addressable Storage
o Support the XAM compliant stores
o Developed and QA’ed against EMC
Centera
o Designed to work with solutions
from EMC, HP, IBM, Hitachi, Sun,
etc.
● Alfresco Enterprise only feature
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23. Localisation
● Alfresco driven local language packs
o French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese
● Use existing language packs
o Professional translators
o Native language reviewers
● Improved consistency and terminology
● Will be released with Alfresco Enterprise 3.4
● Will be available for Alfresco Community 3.4
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24. Timing
Core Alfresco Application Extensions
● Alfresco Community 3.4 ● Portal Integration
o Released o Alfresco Community 3.4
Released
● Alfresco Enterprise 3.4
o Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 in
o Mid December QA
● Alfresco Web Quick ● XAM Content
Start (for 3.3) Connector
o Early October o TBC
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