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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

Installing Alfresco


Before directly delving into installation, it is important for you to understand the architecture behind Alfresco and various installation options available to you. This will help you to make good decisions in selecting the suitable software for your business application.

Out of the box installation architecture

The out of the box deployment of Alfresco is a typical web application architecture consisting of different layers as shown in the following diagram. This new architecture is basically N-tier and delivers more scalability without massive hardware and software investment. It also accommodates more users with the existing hardware resources. The layered architecture of Alfresco provides the benefits of easily manageable, flexible, and highly scalable content management solution.

Client applications layer

The client applications layer contains the actual application as a web browser on the user's machine; basically the presentation layer. Out of the box Alfresco provides...