Alfresco – An Open Source Content Management System - Bindu Nayar, Bhavana Mohanraj

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Our Focus for Today…

1. What is Alfresco?

2. Editions

3. Key Features

4. Highlights

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Why Use a CMS?

Three major points…

• Operational efficiency

• Collaboration

• Increased security

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But…

• Cost

• Complexity

• Training

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Alfresco…What?

• Open source enterprise content management system

• Runs on any platform that supports Java Standard Edition

• Easy to download, install, deploy

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Alfresco - Editions

Four broad categories

Cloud – 50-500 users, 10 GB – 1 TB

Mobile – Requires Alfresco on Cloud account

Enterprise – Unlimited users, support

Community – Completely free, community support

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Tell Me More...

• 30-day free trial for the Enterprise Edition

• Do a pilot project before deploying

• Based on the freemium model

• Includes open source modules

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Open Source Components in Alfresco

Installing Alfresco

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Installation Types

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Manager Tool

Web server

Database

Using Alfresco

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Logging In

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Alfresco Share - Dashboard

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Features You Can Try

1. Dashlets

2. Workflow

3. Integration with Google Docs

4. XML, HTML Editing

5. Social Channel Publishing

6. Drag and Drop

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1. Dashlets

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2. Workflow

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3. Integration With Google Docs

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4. Markup Language Editing

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5. Social Channel

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6. Drag and Drop

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Highlights

• Community version is totally free!!!

• Community version is almost == Enterprise version

• Blogs, Documentation, Forums, Videos

• Issue Tracking through Jira

• Customizable to suit your needs

• Supports 7 languages

Some Questions You May Have…

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• Does Alfresco support integration with Framemaker?

• If i make some customizations to Alfresco, should the code be released to the community?

• How often are community versions released?

• If i find any issue with the community version, can i file a bug?

• Can i replace an open source component with a proprietary solution?

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Thank You