Alfresco As SharePoint Alternative - Architecture Overview

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Jean Barmash Director, Technical Services, Alfresco December 4 th , 2008 Alfresco 3.0 as SharePoint Alternative for Architects

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Alfresco As SharePoint Alternative - Architecture Overview

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Jean Barmash

Director, Technical Services, Alfresco

December 4th, 2008

Alfresco 3.0 as SharePoint Alternative

for Architects

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About The PresenterAbout The Presenter

● Director, Technical Services● Blog – http://blogs.alfresco.com/jbarmash

● Alfresco Consulting● Small Team With Offering Complementary to SIs● http://www.alfresco.com/services/consulting/

● Prior to Alfresco● SharePoint 2003 and 2007 Integration Consulting & Training● Varous technical and architecture roles, both Java and .NET

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AgendaAgenda

● New Alfresco Enterprise 3.0 Alfresco Share

Microsoft SharePoint Protocol Support

CMIS

Surf

Repository Enhancements

Demo

● Alfresco Architecture

Content-As-A-Service Platform

Services

Social Computing Services3

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Market MomentumMarket Momentum● Over one million downloads

70,000 Community members

30,000+ Active installations

75 countries, 20 languages

● 700+ enterprise customers in 3 years

Major banks, governments, media and professional services

● Grew customer bookings by 320% in FY 2007

● Industry recognition

Gartner Cool Technology, Forrester Wave Leader

World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

Awards from ComputerWorld, Network World, eWeek, eContent 100, Red Herring

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Alfresco Products Alfresco Products

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Full-text Indexes& Categories Storage

MetadataDBMS

App ServerWeb Applications

Virtual File System

WebDAV

CIFS

FTPContent

Repository

Business Process

Engine

CRM

Web Services

Portal Server

Knowledge Portals

Alfresco Share

Hot Standby

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Alfresco 3.0E Alfresco 3.0E

● Alfresco Share

New Collaborative Social Computing Dynamic Web 2.0 Application

● First CMIS Support

New Content Management Standard supported by Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, OpenText, Oracle

● Alfresco Surf WCM platform

Build dynamic, REST/CMIS-oriented Webapps and Collaborative Web Sites

● Scalability

Multi-tier Lightweight CMIS/REST Architecture

● First Microsoft Office SharePoint protocol support (post 3.0E)

No Additional Client Installation

● Multi-Tenancy Support

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Alfresco SharePoint ProtocolAlfresco SharePoint Protocol

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Office thinks it’s SharePointOffice thinks

it’s SharePoint

Check-InOutCheck-InOut

Version ControlVersion Control

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Alfresco ShareAlfresco Share

● Sites

● Dashboards

Site, Personal

● Site Components Document Library

Blog, Wiki

Search

People

Activities

Calendar, Discussions

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ActivitiesActivities

PeoplePeople

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Document LibraryDocument Library

● Bulk Upload

● Thumbnails

● Flash Document Viewer

● Meta-Data, Tags

● Multi-Select

● RSS

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ThumbnailsThumbnails

Web 2.0 ControlsWeb 2.0 Controls

BulkUploadBulk

Upload

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Flash Document ViewerExtendable DAM

Flash Document ViewerExtendable DAM

● Automatic Generation of Flash Renditions including:

Word, PowerPoint, Excel

OpenOffice

● Pluggable Rendition Engine

Flash Video/Audio

● Reduced Bandwidth

● High Performance Viewing

● Remove Client Application Dependencies

Office 2003, Office 2007

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Simple Administration and ConfigurationSimple Administration and Configuration

● Simple Administration

Quick Install

Delegated Site Admin

● Simple Configuration

Drag Drop Layout

● Open Gadget Framework

Open Web Script Components

AJAX YUI

Friendly urls

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DemonstrationDemonstration

● Marketing Launch

● Dashboard

● Marketing Site

● Product Marketing

Wiki Product Information

● Marketing Communications

Presentations and Documents

Discuss

● Invite Team

● Review Material

● Schedule Calendar Event

● Blog

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CMISFirst Draft CMIS Implementation

CMISFirst Draft CMIS Implementation

● SQL for the Content Management Industry

● Content Management Interoperability Services

● Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle and SAP

● Usage

Write-Once, Run Anywhere Application

Integrate Multiple Repositories

Business Process Across Repositories

Learn One UI for ALL Repositories

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http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/CMIS

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REST APIREST API

● Site

● Person

● Invite

● Activities

● Rendition

● Thumbnail

● Tagging

● Preferences

● Discussion

● Blogging

● Comment

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Alfresco SurfWeb Application Presentation Framework

Alfresco SurfWeb Application Presentation Framework

● Page Model

● UI Content Component Model

YUI, Adobe Flash – Dynamic Upload, Preview

● Lightweight Web Scripting and Templating

● Open

Portal - Web Part in Microsoft SharePoint Portal

Wiki, Blog

XML, Freemarker, JSP, HTML, Java

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Alfresco Surf ApplicationsAlfresco Surf Applications

● Alfresco Share

● Alfresco Enterprise Network

● Alfresco Web Studio

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Alfresco RepositoryAlfresco Repository

Alfresco SurfAlfresco Surf

Alfresco ShareAlfresco Share

New Products and ProtocolsNew Products and Protocols

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Sites People YUICollaboration Components

Components Pages Templates

MS Office SharePoint ProtocolCMIS

REST & Web Services API

CIFS, WebDAV, FTP & NFS

Java

JavaServer JavaServer Faces (JSF)Faces (JSF)

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Alfresco Alfresco Document Document

ManagementManagementviavia

Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Office

AlfrescoAlfrescoWeb Content Web Content ManagementManagement

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Alfresco SurfAlfresco Surf

Alfresco RepositoryAlfresco Repository

Surf-based AppsSurf-based Apps

Surf ScalabilityMulti-Tier Web 2.0

Architecture

Surf ScalabilityMulti-Tier Web 2.0

Architecture

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Non-Alfresco Non-Alfresco RepositoryRepository

AlfrescoWeb Studio

Alfresco NetworkAlfresco Share Ajax Flex

REST API

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Web ScriptsWeb Scripts

● Presentation Web Scripts

● Web Scripts on the Presentation Tier

● Responsible for generating markup (HTML)

● Isolated from Alfresco Repository

● Model context purely derived from framework (no “document”)

● Can call over to Alfresco using “remote” variable

● Data Web Scripts

● Web Scripts on the Repository Tier

● Responsible for generating JSON, XML (ATOM) or other serialized data format

● Wired into the Alfresco Repository

● Context includes Alfresco Repository elements (“document”)

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17/07/08

3.0 Repository Enhancements3.0 Repository Enhancements

• Performance & Scalability– Version Store Refactor

• Significant reduction in storage• 2x faster to create, 10x faster

to version

– Audit Properties Refactor• Reduced DB storage

requirements Multi-valued Properties Refactor

• Unlimited group sizes

– Permission evaluation performance– Remote OpenOffice Transformation

Service

• Integrity– Remove Lucene Dependency for

Person Service• Clustering resilience

• Multi-Tenancy for DM

• Updated Installers– Windows

– Linux

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Two Tier ArchitectureTwo Tier Architecture

Presentation Tier

Repository Tier

Spring

Connectors

REST

Web Scripts

FreeMarker

Dis

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er

Surf

Model Objects

PagesTemplates

ComponentsThemes

Associations

JSON

Web Scripts

RepositoryCMISSocial

UI

JSON

Content Graph

DocumentsFoldersAssociationsAspects

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Repository – Collection of Services

Repository – Collection of Services

Repository Tier

REST

JSON

Web Scripts

RepositoryCMISSocial

UI

JSON

Content Graph

DocumentsFoldersAssociationsAspects

Node ServiceContent ServiceSearch ServicePermissions ServiceAuthentication Service

Auditing ServiceVersion ServiceRule ServiceAction ServiceWorkflow Service

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Advantages of ServicesAdvantages of Services

● Modularity

● Abstraction that allows to easily change implementation Example – Content Service storing content to Amazon S3

Example – ScriptService using Groovy instead of JavaScript

● Customers can and do customize Alfresco in (sometimes) unexpected ways i.e. Integrate their own Search Engines

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Alfresco ArchitectureAlfresco Architecture

● Platform-Independence Have customers with clients in .NET, PHP, Rails, Java

● Flexibility A toolbox of low-level and higher level services to choose

from

● Multiple APIs exposing the Services Java, Dynamic Scripting (JavaScript), HTTP APIs

With 2.X, gave ability to expose through Web Scripts

With 3.0, built explicit HTTP APIs for Services

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A Truly Open PlatformA Truly Open Platform

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Embeddable RepositoryEmbeddable Repository

● Can embed into your Java Application Low footprint

● Use Content-As A Service

● Easy integration

● Clusterable for HA

● Multi-Tenancy

● Over 30 Companies OEM’ed Alfresco, including Adobe, Quark, IBM, Iron Mountain, others.

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Models of DeploymentModels of Deployment

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Flexibility of Platform for Web 2.0

Flexibility of Platform for Web 2.0

● Facebook Integration ConnectedWeddings.com, funded by fbFund

● Blogging Integration

● Google Gadgets

● Mashups

● External Blog & Wiki Integration

● Email Capture

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Social Computing ServicesSocial Computing Services

● A new set of Alfresco Core Services designed for Social Computing Scenario Tagging

Activities

Thumbnail

Site

Multi-Tenancy Service

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Service API PatternsService API Patterns

● For Each Service Java Core Repository Service

Exposed through JavaScript API

• Internal Dynamic Scripting

• Available for Web Scripting

Exposed through HTTP / REST APIs

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Tagging ServiceTagging Service

● Allows to add folksonomy tags to content

● Add-on to predefined metadata

● Allows Searching

● TagScopes – allow contextual lookup of tags i.e. frequent tags within a site

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Thumbnail ServiceThumbnail Service

● Register image profiles i.e. thumbnail (width 100, length 100)

icon, medium size, full size

● Action that generates / updates the thumbnails

● This is how thumbnailing works in Share

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Activities ServiceActivities Service

● Get notifications about what other people are doing that may be relevant to you.

● Post Activities

● Activities are Templatable Multiple formats – RSS, Atom, etc

● Feed Controls to filter out relevant information

● Get User’s or Site’s Feed Entries

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REST APIREST API

● Site

● Person

● Invite

● Activities

● Rendition

● Thumbnail

● Tagging

● Preferences

● Discussion

● Blogging

● Comment

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Has Some Higher Level Services

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Recorded WebinarsRecorded Webinars

● 3.0 - Introducing Alfresco 3.0

http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2008/09/introducing3_0/index.jsp

● 3.0 - Introducing Alfresco Surf

http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2008/10/surfwebinar/index.jsp

● 3.0 - Introducing CMIS http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2008/09/cmis_webinar_25sep08/index.jsp

● High Availability Clustering

http://webinars.alfresco.com/forms/highavailRecording

● Many More At:

http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/ondemand/

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Alfresco’s Road MapAlfresco’s Road Map

● Continue to Invest in Document Management, WCM and Repository

● Continue to Invest in Records Management

● Enterprise Social Computing

● Rich Internet Applications Interfaces

● Enterprise Performance and Scalability

● New APIs and Interfaces

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Alfresco Next StepsAlfresco Next Steps

● www.alfresco.com

● Download 3.0E

● Alfresco Enterprise

● Enterprise Trial

● Join Content Community

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Questions