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Introducing Alfresco 4

Social Content Management

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Contents

Where are we coming from?Ø Alfresco’s major milestones

Where are we now?Ø Alfresco 4 demo

Where are we going?Ø A peek into Alfresco’s future

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Where are we coming from?

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Alfresco’s major milestones

Founded in 2005 by John Newton (Co-founder Documentum) and John Powell (COO Business Objects)…

…with the aim to become the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management (ECM)…

…and even to surpass commercial ECM offerings in terms of features, functionality and benefits to the user community.

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Alfresco’s major milestones

2006: Alfresco 1.4Ø ‘Old school’ document management

2007: Alfresco 2Ø Focus on WCMØ Introduction of web scripts

2009: Alfresco 3Ø Collaboration with Alfresco ShareØ Clustering: scalability and performanceØ Records management

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Alfresco’s major milestones

Hierarchy-driven Network-driven

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Alfresco’s major milestones

Systems of record Systems of engagement

Preservation and security

Accuracy and completeness

Transactions

Documents

User learns system

ECM for the few

Collaboration and sharing

Immediacy and accessibility

Interactions

Conversations

System learns user

ECM for the masses

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Alfresco’s major milestones

Based on a solid repository

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Where are we now?

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Alfresco 4 demo

A walk through the Share interface

Usability

Social collaboration and integration

Mobile access

System management and performance

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A walk through the Share interface

Personal dashboard

Tasks, workflows, profile

Site dashboard

Wiki, calendar, forum, links, datalist, blog

Document library

Search

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Alfresco 4: Usability

Drag and drop

Contextual help

Site configuration and branding

Sorting

Inline editing

Creation based on templates

Document details page redesign

Support for previewing video/audio

Geotagging

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Alfresco 4: Social collaboration and integration

Following people

Activity feed enhancements

Notifications via e-mail digest

Liking content, favorites and comment counts

Social publishing and updating

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Before social media

Inspired by Jon Thomas

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After social media

Inspired by Jon Thomas

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Alfresco 4: Mobile access

Cook Dine Snack

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Alfresco 4: Mobile access

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Alfresco 4: System management and performance

The ‘invisible’ features of Alfresco 4Ø Solr search engineØ Activiti workflow engineØ Management consoleØ Transformation server

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Alfresco 4: System management and performance

Solr search engine, alternative for Lucene

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Alfresco 4: System management and performance

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Alfresco 4: System management and performance

Activiti workflow engine, alternative for jBPMØ Alfresco’s ‘Belgian connection’Ø Super-fast rock-solid BPMN 2.0 process engine

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Alfresco 4: System management and performance

Administration consoleØ Reduces the need for XML configurationØ Eases the system management tasks

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Alfresco 4: System management and performance

Transformation server

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Where are we going?

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A peek into Alfresco’s future

Alfresco CloudØ Public cloud: beta testing in progressØ Private cloud option scheduled for the futureØ Process-as-a-service (Activiti – Project Pangu)

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Questions?

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