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Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation

By : Munwar Shariff
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Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation

By: Munwar Shariff

Overview of this book

<p>Alfresco offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and aspires to be "Documentum fast and free", and was founded by a former Documentum executive. Alfresco can store a wide range of digital content in flexible, smart "spaces". Content is accessible through a web interface, shared network folders, FTP, WebDav, and other methods.<br /><br />Users can set up Alfresco to process content in certain ways, according to business rules and workflow requirements. It can also apply version control to documents automatically, making it easy and safe to collaborate and update documents.<br /><br />Alfresco is regarded as the most powerful open-source enterprise content management system. Using Alfresco, administrators can easily create rich, shared content repositories. This book shows you how to unleash this power to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Alfresco
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Editor
Preface

Using Alfresco as a Collaborative Framework


You can use Alfresco to build a collaborative framework, where groups of people can collaborate; to create content within spaces, to review content items through discussions, and to discuss general topics and ideas.

Collaboration technologies enable individual users, such as employees or business partners, to easily create and maintain project teams, regardless of geographic location. These technologies facilitate collaborative, team-based content creation and decision‑making. Using collaboration, you can achieve operational objectives like saving time, streamlining processes, cutting costs, and improving time to market.

Alfresco provides a special type of spaces called Discussion forums for collaboration. You can leverage the extensive security framework to provide access to these spaces to promote collaboration. You can also set up interdepartmental collaboration using spaces allowing multiple people to work on documents within a particular space...