Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

How to customize, use, and administer this powerful, Open Source Java-based Enterprise CMS

Key Features

• Manage your business documents with version control, library services, content organization, and advanced search
• Create collaborative web sites using document libraries, wikis, blogs, forums, calendars, discussions, and social tagging
• Integrate with external applications such as Liferay Portal, Adobe Flex, iPhone, iGoogle, and Facebook
• Automate your business process with the advanced workflow concepts of Alfresco 3
• Fully revised and updated for version 3.0, covering Alfresco Surf and more

Book Description

What you will learn

• Working with users and membership accounts, including LDAP integration and single sign-on
• Using Alfresco 3 as a smart document repository; working with automatic version tracking and control, and accessing the repository from the Web, shared network folders, FTP, or Microsoft office tools
• Making content easy to find using search, content categorization, and metadata
• Automating document management tasks with business rules and complete workflows
• Working together using Alfresco s collaboration and syndication features to create effective working groups
• Customizing the user interface, creating your own dashboard layouts; presenting content in custom ways relevant to your business
• Integrating external applications such as Liferay Portal, iPhone, Face Book, iGoogle, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Flex, and Ffmpeg video transcoder with Alfresco
• Setting up a single instance multi-tenant system, configuring Alfresco as an in-bound email server, and setting up an audit trail

Who this book is for

This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users, and business owners 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. The book assumes a degree of technical confidence but does not require specialist system administration or developer skills to get a basic system up and running.
Alfresco is particularly suitable for IT consultants who want or need to set up a flexible enterprise content management system for their clients, be that for demonstration, development, or as a mission-critical platform. This book gets you to that result quickly and effectively.
Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help developers to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.