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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

Scanning solutions with Alfresco


There are many scanning solutions that you can integrate with Alfresco. Here, we will discuss with various such options:

  • Any standard scanner that scans and saves the document in PDF/TIFF format to the filesystem can be integrated with Alfresco. The scanner in your remote office can be connected to a local network folder (refer to the first figure of this chapter), and the network folder can be mapped to the Alfresco repository as a space via WebDAV or CIFS.

  • Any scanning solution can use Alfrseco's web services to push documents into the repository. It is a very easy integration.

  • Alfresco supports integration with Kofax. Kofax is the world's leading provider of information capturing solutions. Their product, Kofax Ascent Capture, is integrated with Alfresco, offering customers access to a comprehensive production capture solution. This product includes automatic document classification, data extraction, and validation for both Internet-based distributed capture...