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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

About the Reviewers

Michael G. Uzquiano is the director of Web Content Management at Alfresco Software. He has developed the Alfresco Surf and Alfresco Web Studio presentation tier technologies for Alfresco, and guides the WCM and Network product strategies today.

He has over 12 years of experience in the ECM industry, having pioneered product and services efforts at Trilogy Software, Epicentric, and Vignette. He's worked in the fields of engineering, consulting, sales, and products. He has also founded a gaming company and a small non-profit organization (with a focus on South America).

Michael holds a Master's degree in Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he had concentrated on Finance and Strategy. He also holds a Bachelor as well as a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Adrián Efrén Jiménez Vega works at the Center of Information Technologies (CTI) of the University of the Balearic Islands, in Mallorca (Spain). For three years, he has built and deployed various applications based on Alfresco.

Since registering on the Alfresco Spanish forum approximately one year ago, he has dedicated time and openly shared his experience by posting more than 600 messages, and has contributed many practical solutions and useful hints to members of the Community. The 'mini-guides' that he developed are now widely used and referenced among developers in Spain and other Spanish speaking countries. He obtained the "Alfresco Chumby Awards for Community Achievement" in November 2008.

Adrián won the "Web Script Developer Challenge" by developing a Web Script solution to limit the space for users, including e-mail notification.

At present, in parallel with these tasks, he is doing a Computer Engineering study project, and is basing his work on document management with the Alfresco platform.

This book is dedicated to Amit Babaria, head of U.S. business, and to Manish Sheladia, General Manager for India operations at CIGNEX, without whom this book would not have existed.