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Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

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Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Overview of this book

Alfresco 3.0 has generated a lot of curiosity with its new content management features. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with the security, dashboards, and configuration features of Alfresco 3. Alfresco 3 includes Alfresco Surf, a new N-Tier Architecture, which delivers scalability and accommodates more users on existing hardware resources. This new release also includes a draft implementation of the CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support. The new multi-tenancy features enable Alfresco ECM to be configured as a single-instance multi-tenant environment. This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management in your business using Alfresco 3. It covers the enhanced document management, a new web-based collaborative application called Alfresco Share, and various integration options with external applications. Alfresco 3 offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) by providing an open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, and Interwoven. It is the most popular Java-based CMS with over 1.5 million downloads, 50,000 live sites, 74,000 community members, and with more than 150 application extensions in forge. This book guides you through creating smart, collaborative content repositories and shows how to use Alfresco 3 to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes. The book also explains how administrators can set up Alfresco 3 for multiple business units as a single-instance multi-tenant environment. Business users can leverage Alfresco Share, a new built-in web-based collaborative content management application bundled with Alfresco repository. It simplifies capturing, sharing, and retrieval of information across virtual teams. This book shows you how to unleash the power of Alfresco 3 to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Credits
About the Author
About the Co-Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank John Powell, CEO of Alfresco for providing support to the CIGNEX team. Thanks to John Newton, Ian Howells, Matt Asay, Phil Robinson, Paul Holmes-Higgin, David Caruana, Janine Eastwood, Martin Musierowicz, Luis Sala, Joe Van De Graaff, Floyd Spencer, and Natasha Woodhouse for all of the support. They are great partners to work with.

We thank Michael G. Uzquiano, Director of Alfresco Web Content Management, for providing critical feedback and suggesting improvements.

Our special thanks to all of our team members at CIGNEX for making this book a reality. We would like to thank Paul Anthony, CEO of CIGNEX for his encouragement. Our sales, presales, and inside sales teams at CIGNEX helped us to understand what customers are looking at. We have learnt a lot through numerous discussions with them. We owe them a party. Our consulting team at CIGNEX presented us with the various flavors of Alfresco implementations that we could not have possibly imagined, with real-life examples as they worked on the production projects. We are thankful to them.

We sincerely thank and appreciate David Barnes, Senior Acquisition Editor at Packt Publishing for giving us this opportunity. A BIG thanks to Dilip Venkatesh, Development Editor, and to the entire team at Packt Publishing. It is a pleasure to work with them.

Our special thanks to our families and friends.