The release of updated enterprise software can have many IT professionals wondering if the new features are worth the hassle of an upgrade. While there are a lot of new things under the hood in this release—including additional APIs and support of native-cloud technologies—we’ve picked some that we think will help you most. Join us for a webinar that will walk you through The Top 5 Features of Alfresco 5.1 with something for everyone, including business users, analysts, developers, and architects.
In this webinar, Kristen Harris, Director of ECM Solutions at Zia Consulting, and Bindu Wavell, Chief Architect, will cover the benefits for:
Alfresco Share Users
- Default Landing Page
- Become Owner UI
Alfresco Business Analysts
- Content Modeling UI
Alfresco Developers
- Smart Folders
Alfresco Architects
- Solr Sharding
See how this update can provide you with smarter content organization, simpler collaboration, and greater openness/scalability.
3. Introducing Alfresco 5.1!
Enterprise Release: February 2016
Substantial Enhancements on 5.0
Simple for Business
Smart for IT
Alfresco Records Management 2.4
Co-Released with Activiti BPM 1.4
Unified Platform for Business Solutions
4. Top 5 New Features of Alfresco 5.1
Business users care about…
Business analysts and system administrators
are intrigued by…
Enterprise architects are excited for…
5. New Feature #1 for Business Users
Default Landing Page Benefits
Consistent place to
begin in Alfresco Share
Easy to change or reset
Simplify experience for
casual or power users
6. New Feature #2 for Business Users
Become Owner Action Benefits
Reset document
ownership of a
document without
Administrator’s help
No scripting required
7. Quick demo of features…
Sneak Peak for Business Users
8. New Feature #3 for Analysts/Devs
Smart Folders Benefits
Optimize file organization for
different types of users
Supports assigning metadata
automatically
Available with CMIS and
WebDAV
10. New Feature #3 for Analysts/Devs
Smart Folders Basics
Enable smart folders in Alfresco global properties
Create or leverage your content model for specifying
queries
Create a smart folder template with JSON
Associate a smart folder template with a physical
repository folder
11. New Feature #4 for Analysts/Devs
Content Modeling UI
User interface for the
creation and review of
Alfresco content model
Benefits
Reduces manual XML
editing for creating
custom types and aspects
Update the content model
without restart
12. Content Modeling UI demo…
Features for Business Analysts and
System Administrators
13. New Feature #5 for Architects
Solr
Replication/Sharding
Splitting a single Solr
index into multiple parts
Each part can be
replicated multiple times
and split across multiple
machines
Benefits
Split or scale your index
volume
Provides high availability
May increase
performance/throughput
with distributed
operations
18. Who is Zia?
EST.
2003
Boulder, CO
Critic
al
Not
Casual
Controlling Chaos
+
Delivering Rapid ROI
Process &
Integratio
n
Open
Platforms
Content People
19. Zia Vitality Review
Current State
Roadmap
Fixes
Enhancements
Upgrade
Recommendation
20. If You Are Running…
Alfresco 5.0 vs. 5.1 – Smart Folders, Simplified
Permissions, Solr Sharding (Search & Scale),
Independent Share, API Enhancements
Alfresco 4.2 vs. 5.1 – Above + HTML5 Preview,
Office Integration, Activiti/Share Connector, Aurora
Database support, Alfresco Analytics
Alfresco 3.4 vs. 5.1 – Virtually Everything
21. Next Steps
Talk to us/talk to our customers
Alfresco 5.1 + Your Business
Whiteboarding/Demo
Zia Vitality Review
Alfresco 5.1 enterprise trial
Zia Managed Cloud Services
ziaconsulting.com/resources - Case Studies, Webinar
Recordings, Datasheets
A folder that shows query results rather than physical file locations
Enables multiple role or status focused browsing structures
Permission can be given to users without full administrator role
Break an index down into significantly Turn slide 1:13 – smaller, commodity hardware
Can’t handle super large indexes – full copy of the index on it 4:52
Solr sharding designed for very large repos with 30-50 million nodes
5:58 move on to the next slide
If you imagine we had 8 instances – each would be even smaller
6:40
Our History / Our Focus
We do content – not just any content, but critical. With a focus on process-intensive content
Take our skills and build repeatable solutions on open platforms
To again help you control your chaos and automate your manual/paper-centric processes
So what services do we specifically deliver for the mortgage industry – we talked about ACE for processing TRID documents
But looking at actual services - range from initial assessment to architecture & design services – deliver to you for implementation
Or provide delivery of technologies, with experience and IP from dozens of engagements with companies just like yours
To integration solutions – obviously for leading LOS technologies but also with outlook, office or other business tools
And finally migration – not just content migration but business process
Next month webinar where we talk about migration from legacy Capture vendor – Kofax to Ephesoft
Where go from here –
First – if this might be a fit – let’s talk – talk to us / happy to have you talk to customers
Look at your mortgage process, show you more depth the solution
Visit our web page, few other demos
Let us help you try it!