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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

Create a Blueprint for Your Application


Now that the configuration is done, the next step is to create the blueprint for your application. The blueprint is nothing but a skeleton application on Alfresco without the actual content. This includes the security framework, folder structure within the Alfresco repository, categories for taxonomy, workflow and business rules, and so on.

Enterprise Intranet as a Theme

We will build an intranet for your enterprise where each department has its own space, document management and security, and business rules. All departments collaborate to create an effective enterprise knowledge management portal.

This example solution is extended in all the chapters. Hence reading the chapters in the proper sequence would help you to understand the features of Alfresco in a systematic manner. While reading each chapter, you will get the concepts of Alfresco, and at the same time you will be developing the solution. Though the extended sample is related to an enterprise...