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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Alfresco integrates with various image-capturing systems. This adds to the flexibility, and provides intelligent forms processing that result in greater control and management of crucial information and documents, within and outside the firewall.

You can implement an OCR solution within Alfresco using the transformations framework. The Ephesoft integration also allows documents to be captured and stored in Alfresco, enabling customers to review and approve documents for long-term archival or records management purposes.

The next chapter will cover in detail about administrating and maintaining the Alfresco system. The chapter will also provide you with all the details on export import process in Alfresco, JMX, an the backup process. You would also learn about upgrading Alfresco.