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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

Creating a blueprint for your application


Now that the configuration is done, the next step is to create the blueprint for your application. The blueprint is nothing but creating a skeleton application on Alfresco without the actual content. This includes the security framework, folder structure within Alfresco repository, categories for taxonomy, workflow, and business rules.

Enterprise intranet as a theme

Build intranet for your enterprise, where each department has its own space, document management and security, and business rules. All departments collaborate to create effective enterprise knowledge management portal.

This example solution is extended in all the chapters. Hence reading the chapters in the same sequence would help you to understand the features of Alfresco in a systematic manner. While reading each chapter, you will get the concepts of Alfresco, and at the same time you will be developing the solution. Though the extended sample is related to enterprise intranet, it is...