Really Simple Document Management
Friday, August 31st, 2007This is the first in a series of podcasts discussing the key areas of content management and will focus on document management. In this podcast Alfresco staff writer, Hayley Powell, interviews me asking the following questions:
- Firstly I have to ask why does document management have such strange terms?
- What are the major trends in document management today?
- What is the cost to a business of poor document management?
- So can you relate to me typical things that document management does that most users who use a shared drive can relate to?
- Documents have more than just content what about things such as properties in Office documents?
- You raised two common issues - search and when you find document versions. What about search?
- So the obvious next question is search and versions together. What are the typical problems here?
- Obviously some documents have to be secure and some are public. What about security?
- Things like press releases are initially private and then public. How is that managed?
- How do you manage a released document and prevent it from being changed?
- So when you bring these things together what do you have?
- Given that approach to document management how does Alfresco approach it?
- Can you discuss rules more?
- Can you discuss Alfresco’s approach to Search?
- The web is not one website so how does Alfresco search over multiple sites?
- What client software do you use to access Alfresco?
- You mentioned the lifecycle of a document. How does Alfresco manage simple workflow?
- What is new that will make it even simpler for Office users?
A Whitepaper on this subject is available in the Content Community where this is also a recorded webinar and demonstration on this subject. You can access this at:
http://www.alfresco.com/community/register/?source=community
The software mentioned in this podcast can be downloaded at:
http://www.alfresco.com/products/ecm/enttrial/
Good Listening
ian
