Alfresco Video Blog

Document Management:

Alfresco Document Management captures, shares and retains content, enabling users to version, search and simply build their own content applications. All with the tools they use today.

• See how the Alfresco repository is as easy to use as a regular shared drive.
• Learn how it integrates with Microsoft Office.
• Learn the rules for content applications

Web Content Management:

Real people want the simplicity and familiarity of the tools they use everyday.

• The mass of content in Wikipedia.
• The freshness of content in Digg.
• The ease of configurability and reuse of Google gadgets or Facebook pages.
• And the low cost scalability of Web 2.0.

Learn how Alfresco Web Content Management delivers. Via:

• Simple contribution by teams
• The Alfresco Surf platform
• Low-cost commodity scalability

Collaboration:

Alfresco Share is a Facebook-like solution for the Enterprise. See how it works, and ho wit could work for you.

Alfresco software focuses on: 1. Low Cost

• A low cost, open source, subscription model with minimal upfront investment that can be driven out of operating expense as opposed to capital expense. 2. Simplicity
• Rapid deployment to deliver immediate business value. And rapid application development using pre-built components and lightweight scripting. 3. Choice
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by reusing existing hardware, software and skills.
• No lock-in to one ECM vendor or one stack.

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Traditional document management has it roots in complex document vaults accessed by document librarians. Theses have been historically developed as large, complex, enterprise software applications.

This has caused document management system to be: * Complex and difficult to use * Very costly * Very low adoption rate typically 5% of users

The choice of a complex, robust document system or a simple to use system that lacks essential features has resulted in a very low adoption rate. The systems that users are familiar with and use are:

• Shared Drive for storage
• Email for Collaboration
• Google for Search
• Yahoo for categorization
• Folder Structures and Content for Project Plans

Alfresco Document Management

Alfresco offers document management using familiar interfaces to get rapid user adoption built on a repository that offers transparent, out-of-sight services for full ECM.

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Learn how you can replace your shared drive with a enterprise-class content management system. With no client software.

Alfresco’s Virtual File System interfaces provide CIFS (Common Internet File System), NFS (Network File System), WebDav (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access to your Alfresco content repositories making, Alfresco as easy to use as a shared drive

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This video shows how it is easy to replace a shared, network folder with Alfresco. Giving users easy access to content management features.

This video shows the how to get started with the Alfresco ECM system. It covers how to create users and groups, how to manage content and how to send content for review.

This video shows the how to get started with Alfresco Share. It covers how to create and use project collaboration sites within Alfresco Share – Learn how to combine traditional ECM with new Web 2.0 collaboration services.

Building web sites w/ Alfresco Web Content Management. Part of the Alfresco In An Hour Series.

The collection of techniques and technologies known as Web 2.0 is only just beginning to have an affect on the enterprise. Join Dr. Ian Howells, Alfresco Chief Marketing Officer, and Jeff Potts, ECM Practice Lead for Optaros, as they explain the significance of these trends to the enterprise, what Web 2.0 really is and how to best leverage it to support content management strategies.

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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.

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