Getting to Know Alfresco 4
Paul Hampton Director of Product Marketing
Maidenhead, UK Global Headquarters Atlanta, US Headquarters
Alfresco is now the largest open source content management company in the world.
Founded in 2005, with offices in London & Atlanta Over 3.5 million community downloads 250+ global channel partners 2,500 customers in 55 countries, including…
The Alfresco Platform
Document Management Records Management Web Content Services Enterprise Collaboration Open Source Platform
Alfresco is now the largest open source content management company in the world.
• 10 month average payback period • $1.3 million in IT & training cost savings • 53% ROI in three years • Flexibility and Open Standards praised
The cloud connected content platform.
Introducing…
A Tale of 3 Employees
Jeff Amy Jason
Jeff – Account Manager
• Spends most of his day on the road
• Needs access to a range of information
• Needs to collaborate with other members of sales and marketing
Jeff
Redesigned User Interface
• More room for preview
• Toggle actions, properties, tags, etc.
• Support more formats – Preview Video and
Audio – Support for Apple
iWork and Adobe files
Adding Content • Support drag and drop
upload – Drag from desktop – Drop on to folders
• Support drag and drop move – Drag files to the folder tree,
folders or the breadcrumb
• HTML5 enabled browsers Get D&D move screen shot off
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Changing Content
• Check out • Save to desktop • Navigate to find file • Open the file • Make changes • Save changes • Check-in • Navigate to find file
• Select Online Edit – Alfresco launches client
application
• Make Changes & Save – Alfresco creates a new
version
• Mac Office 2011 and Office 2010 Support
The Way Forward Old School
SharePoint Protocol
1) Edit Online Opens document directly in native application
2) Save Versions and updates directly in Alfresco
Provide Feedback – Like
• Ability to ‘like’ content • Sort content by
ratings – Find highly rated
content
• Comment counts – See what has been
commented on
Follow Influential People
• Use search to find people to follow
• Activities – what are they doing
• Find out who is following you
Notifications • Proactive notifications
– Email updates – Activity feed, following and
WF tasks
• Personal preferences – Op-in/out
• New activity dashlet – Multiple options – New filers
We Have an App for that… • Find content
– Browse sites and folders – Search
• View content – View file information
• Download to device – Open in app
• Favorites • Send content to others • Comment • Upload content (WebDAV)
Integration with Other Apps • Latest version 1.2 • Support for
Quickoffice – Download content to
Quickoffice – Update content – ‘Save Back’
• Will see Alfresco add more integrations over time
Amy
Amy – Marketing Manager • Uses Social
Marketing sites for the business
• Needs to support a number of different social sites
• Needs to publish ‘approved’ content
• Need to work with marketing agencies
Social Publishing
• Support two types – Content – Status updates
• Support for – Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, LinkedIn, Slideshare and Flickr
– Can be extended
• Define ‘Channels’ – Multiple channels for each
service
Publish
New BPM2.0 Workflow
Activiti in Alfresco • Use Activiti and jBPM in
parallel (e.g. old vs. new WF’s) • Compliant with BPMN 2.0
standard • Graphical view in Share • Workflow Designer ü Open Standards ü Visual Representation ü Powerful engine
Alfresco in the Cloud
• Easily collaborate with people outside the organization – Multitenant network
support – Invite people into your
network – Share only the content
you want them to see
• Free to sign up and use
• Premium option for additional functionality and storage
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Jason
Jason – IT Manager
• Needs to support Alfresco deployments
• Wants to get greater adoption
• Needs to support more users
• Looking for a system that is easy administer
Simpler Site Administration
• Drag and drop setup / order of components
• Rename components • Brand sites • Improved help
– Default text – Help bubbles
Web Admin Console • License warnings
• Admin console – Tag and category managers – Channels and Workflow
management
Enterprise
Community
Cloud-Scale Performance
• 10x faster* user dashboard queries
• 3-4x faster content uploads
• 25% faster loading the Document Library
• 50% faster loading Document Details
• Better than linear scalability New Alfresco Index Server
* Improvements over Alfresco Enterprise 3.4
New Alfresco Index Server • Customer can choose
– Existing Lucene – Alfresco Index Server
(based on Solr) • Typical upgrade
process – Install Alfresco 4.0 – Configure SOLR – Run Solr index – Switch off Lucene
• Provides more control over what gets indexed
• Client support – Alfresco Explorer – Alfresco Share – WebDAV – FTP – MS SharePoint – CIFS
Lucene vs.. Solr
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Solr Indexing Lucene Indexing
Alfresco 4
• A major new release – Loads of new features
• But Alfresco 4 is the platform for Cloud Connected Content
Drag n Drop, Parallel Upload, HTML5 Support, Sorting, Inline Edit,
iWork, Video, Audio, Rename, Branding, User
Guide, Help, Google Docs,Templates, Follow, Like, Email Notification, Activities,
Social Publishing, GeoTagging, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Solr, Index Server, Activiti, Console Dashboard, Forms Service, Forms Service, Model Management, Extensibility
Desktop
Mobile Social Media Channels
Web Services Public Alfresco Cloud
Corporate Systems
Open Web APIs
CMIS JSR-168
Connectors
WebDAV CMIS CIFS
SharePoint Protocol
Open Web APIs CMIS
CMIS-based Alfresco Sync
CMIS WebDAV
QUESTIONS?
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