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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

Various application integration examples


This section contains various production examples which are currently available. Hence, before developing integration with Alfresco, you can check these examples to evaluate if you could reuse any of them for your application.

Various available options

With Alfresco version 4.x, to use Alfresco with Liferay, there are different options. Some of them are explained in the following sections.

Using web service

Alfresco supports web service that offers way to access Alfresco repository from any remote application. There are list of web service that comes with Alfresco to access file and folder from remote application. You can also develop your custom web service to satisfy your requirement to access content in Alfresco.

Using the CMIS proposed standard

Alfresco, IBM, Microsoft, Documentum, and others announced the submission of a new content management standard proposal called CMIS or Content Management Interoperability Service. Alfresco has released implementation...