Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

With Alfresco 4 you can manage content across the enterprise more effectively and corroboratively. This book helps you achieve great results, however basic or sophisticated your needs, with a hands-on, training course approach.

Key Features

• Manage your business documents with standard practices like content organization, version control, tagging, categorization, library services, and advanced search
• Automate your business process with the advanced workflow concepts of Alfresco using the Activiti workflow engine
• Manage your documents with productivity tools like Microsoft Office, Mobile Application, MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, and so on
• Integrate with external applications such as Liferay Portal, Adobe Flex, iPhone, and Facebook

Book Description

What you will learn

• Work with users and membership accounts, including LDAP integration and single sign-on
• Make content easy to find using search, tagging, content categorization, and metadata
• Customize the user interface, create your own dashboard layouts, and present content in custom ways relevant to your business
• Integrate external applications such as Liferay Portal, iPhone, Facebook, PDF and image viewer, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Flex and Ffmpeg video transcoder
• Set up a single instance multi-tenant system and High Availability, configure Alfresco as in-bound email server, and set up an audit trail
• Learn the various options for Image and Forms Processing
• Maintain and administrate all of the Alfresco systems
• Use Alfresco 4 as a smart document repository; work with automatic version tracking and control, access the repository from the web, share network folders, FTP, Microsoft Office tools and Mobile Applications

Who this book is for

This book is designed for experienced users, business owners, or system administrators who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free, many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any upfront cost, often without management approval. You need to have a degree of technical confidence, but you do not require specialist system admin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running.

Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help you to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.