Open Source Talk

Welcome to another Alfresco Open Source podcast. I have with me today Carlos Miguens who drove our Records Management strategy that led to the recent DoD 5015.2 certification and headlines like:

“Pentagon certifies Alfresco records management app”

What this podcast is about is Records Management in “Plain English” and the Top 10 Records Management Terms”.

• Historically Records Management has been  very complex and very specialized. In Plain English What is Records Management?
• Why is Records Management important and why has it become more important recently?
• Who needs to uses Records Management?
• I remember us talking about a recent AIIM survey on the state of Records Management. Can you summarize that for us?
• What happens if a company does not have effective Records Management?

Records Management is riddled with complex terms. I’d like you to describe a few in plain English for us This is my Records Management Plain English Top 10:

1. Audit Trail
2. Authenticity
3. Disposition
4. Disposition Instruction
5. File Plan
6. Freeze
7. Life Cycle
8. Record
9. Record Identifier
10. Retention Period

• What were the primary goals of Alfresco with regards to Records Management?
• What is DoD 5015.2 and what is the significance of it?
• What other standards are there and what are Alfresco’s plans there?

Thank you for listening
We’ll be following up with more podcasts on records Management and more podcasts in Plain English

ian

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Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 has major new functionality in the areas of:

• Enhanced Records Management
• Mobile Access
• Email Client Access and Archiving via  IMAP support
• Enhanced CMIS Support
• Extranet Collaboration
• WCM Parallel Deployment with significant performance improvements

and is what we recommend for all new and existing community members. It is immediately available for download at:

http://www.alfresco.com/32

Much of what 3.2 is about is captured by Forrester’s drivers for 2009:

• · Reduce Cost – Core to Open Source
• · Improve Integration - CMIS
• · Increase Innovation – Mobile Support and Email Management/Archiving
• · Increase Support for Regulatory Requirements – Foundation for Records Management

In this podcast I discuss with Paul Hampton, Director of Product Marketing, this new release.

Good Listening

ian

 

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Alfresco Labs 3 Final is a milestone release for Alfresco Labs and is what we recommend for all new community members. We also recommend this as a download and upgrade for existing community members.

It is immediately available for download under the open source GPL license at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_Labs.

In this podcast I discuss with Mike Farman, Director of Product Management ECM Products, this new release.

1. What is the major driver behind the latest release of Alfresco Labs 3?
2. Given that the focus is on a content services platform what standards are you  focusing on?
3. Can you review what is new in Web Content Management?
4. Can you review what is new in Collaboration?
5. Can you review what is new in Document Management?
6. Can you review what is new in Email Management?
7. The other critical part of a content platform is scalability. What is new in regard to performance?
8. To scale on the cloud multi-tenant is important. Can you explain how Alfresco has implemented multi-tenant?
9. How can users find out more information?
10. How can a user try out the new version?

Good Listening

ian

 

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Alfresco 2.2 has focused on offering content management and collaboration for everyone in the enterprise and has used web 2.0 technologies to bring together content management, collaboration, office and email integration all within one repository.

Many industry leading clients are using Alfresco to provide next generation user experiences, creating communities around their products, and delivering this at dramatically lower cost through the benefit of open source.

These new community oriented product micro-sites need to be highly-scalable with the ability to integrate rich media with user generated content, and support rapid content update for a fresh customer experience, while promoting a consistent brand.

Experience with this next generation of websites has driven the enhancements in Alfresco 2.2 including:

• Web Application Preview and Test – providing the ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, JSF, Tiles, Struts, Groovy, and .NET
• Web Farm Deployment Configuration – supports advanced deployment rules for scalable, 3-tier web application architectures with partitioned, replicated deployment
• Site Templating and Branching – enabling rapid creation of new sites from existing templates and ability to baseline major site updates by branching existing site
• Asset Reuse – update and sharing of content across web projects

Alfresco has continued its focus on collaboration and management for the whole enterprise in version 2.2 with enhancements delivering the following capabilities:

• Email-based Collaboration – Email directly into the repository and capture all discussions relating to a specific document
• Email Archival – Automatic capture and archival of all attached files and email messages
• JMX-based Server Administration – JSR-160 support offering administrators access to Alfresco via a JMX console

This podcast is a recording of a live webinar discussing and demonstrating Alfresco 2.2. More details can be found at:

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

There is a new Developer Toolbox in the Content Community that contains starter apps, sample code of web scripts and java-backed web scripts. Nancy discusses this in her blog that can found at:
http://blogs.alfresco.com/nancy/?p=24

This is a great way to learn more about Alfresco 2.2 and prepare for Alfresco 3.0

Have fun

ian

 

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