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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

Alfresco content platform


Alfresco is architected in such a way that the repository services are separated from the user interface, thus giving infinite options to either embed or integrate with external applications. Alfresco repository can be embedded into customer application or it can be integrated with the customer application as shown in the following figure:

Embeddable Enterprise content management system

Alfresco Enterprise content management server is now available as a standalone embeddable option for OEM's. Alfresco was designed from the ground up to be embedded in modern architectures for the new world of enterprise software. It offers:

  • A 100 percent Java WAR file that can be simply run in an application sever

  • A system that can share the same JVM as the embedding application or be accessed remotely

  • The most scalable standards-based JSR-170 repository

  • An environment for rapid development with API sets for REST, Web Services, Java, JSR-170

The Alfresco Enterprise content management system...