What’s New in Alfresco Community 3.4Alfresco Community 3.4

Paul HamptonDirector of Product Marketing

2010 Second Half Plans

● Alfresco Community / Enterprise 3.4

o Alfresco Web Quick Start

o Alfresco WCM for Spring

o Replication Services

o Update to Alfresco Share

● Application Extensions

o Portal Integration

o XAM Content Store Support

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New Web Functionality

● WCM Collaboration

● Alfresco Web Quick Start

● WCM Process Control● WCM Process Control

● WCM Services for Spring

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WCM Collaboration

● Editorial management via Alfresco Share and Alfresco Web Editor (AWE)o Full enterprise process support – manage the review /

approval process – ‘Office to Web’

o Rich collaboration environment o

o In-context authoring and editing

o Support for CIFS, FTP, WebDAV, and CMIS

● Web producer o Site creation and configuration

o Easy navigation config

o Content Collections (static and dynamic)4

Web Quick Start

● Example implementationo Best practice example

o Written in Spring MVC, Spring Surf, OpenCMIS

● Combines the power of Share with OOTB templateo Workflow, team collaboration, web configurationo Workflow, team collaboration, web configuration

● Industry focused templates for...o Government

o Media and Entertainment

o Finance

● Available for Community / Enterprise 3.4 and 3.3

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Architecture

Quick StartWeb Application

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Quick Start Website API

OpenCMIS

Easy navigation

Image Carousel

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Dynamic or static lists

navigation configuration

Process Control

● Advanced Workflow (for both Share and WCM)

o Exposed via collaboration environment

● Based on jBPM

● New Dashlets● New Dashlets

o Inbox

o My Tasks – Filter by date, priority, assignee, workflow type, etc.

● Start workflow without content

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Workflow – Screen Shots

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Start Workflow Manage Workflow

Filters

WCM Services for Spring

● Integrates enterprise content with the webo Single content store for DM, RM, Collaboration and WCM

● Unified content services

o End to End solution – Authoring to Delivery

o Rich Content Modelling – Associations, Behaviours, Aspects, Rules/Actions and Constraints

o Transformation service with rendition support (images and text)

o Transfer services for content publishing / delivery

o CMIS runtime for content delivery

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WCM Development

● Development platform

o Standards support – Spring, Spring Surf, CMIS, Java, REST

o Lightweight scripting – Speed of development

Enterprise scale content serviceso Enterprise scale content services

o Extensible (unrestricted) platform

● Spring developers tools

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More Information...

● Install and Configuration

o http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start_Installation_and_Configuration

● Developers Guide

o http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start_Developer_Guide

● http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki & Search for ‘Quick Start’

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Content Replication

● Distributed repository replicationo Selective replication of spaces, content and rules

o Support for full, incremental and delete

o One source – multiple destinations

o Replicas are read-onlyo Replicas are read-only

o Update at source only (re-direct if needed)

● Benefitso Provide fast local access

o Remove single point of failure

o Reduce wide area network traffic

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Content Replication

Regional Office Regional OfficeHead Office

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SOP

Copy Local Content

SOP

Copy Local Content

SOP

Master Local Content

Alfresco Share - Search

● Both Simple and Advanced

● Can search for...

o Folders / Containers

o Content (all types)o Content (all types)

o Custom types (example ‘Contract’)

o Aspects (example ‘customer = ACME’)

o Application specific (example ‘Contract and customer = ACME’)

● Extensible via forms

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Search – Screen Shots

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Alfresco Share Enhancements

● Redesigned UI / Toolbar

o Improved usability

o Ease of customisation and localisation

● Social and Collaboration● Social and Collaboration

o User status – What are you working on

● New Permissions

o Who can create sites

o Who can see ‘public’ sites

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Alfresco Share – UI Redesign

3.4

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3.3

Extensible Menu StatusUpdate

Optimized Database Mapping

● Architecture Change – Remove Hibernateo Native Alfresco schema database mapping and cache

o Optimized for Alfresco

o Improved control of cache (tuned to Alfresco DB)

o Improvements in reliability and performanceo Improvements in reliability and performance

● OEM friendly license

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Document Library for Portals

● DocLib Portlet for JSR168 Portals

● Portlets provides access to...

o DM repository

o Share Siteso Share Sites

● Access full DM functions

● Single sign on (SSO)● Available for Community / Enterprise 3.3 and 3.4

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Portlet – Screen Shot

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XAM Content Connector

● A solution for ‘Fixed Content’ –content that will never be changed

● Extend Alfresco o Use Content Addressable Storage

o Support the XAM compliant storeso Support the XAM compliant stores

o Developed and QA’ed against EMC Centera

o Designed to work with solutions from EMC, HP, IBM, Hitachi, Sun, etc.

● Alfresco Enterprise only feature

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Localisation

● Alfresco driven local language packs

o French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese

● Use existing language packs

o Professional translatorso Professional translators

o Native language reviewers

● Improved consistency and terminology

● Will be released with Alfresco Enterprise 3.4

● Will be available for Alfresco Community 3.4

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● Portal Integration

o Alfresco Community 3.4 Released

o Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 in

Application Extensions

Timing

● Alfresco Community 3.4

o Released

● Alfresco Enterprise 3.4

Core Alfresco

o Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 in QA

● XAM Content Connector

o TBC

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Alfresco Enterprise 3.4

o Mid December

● Alfresco Web Quick Start (for 3.3)

o Early October

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