Alfresco Webinar Recordings

Alfresco was designed to be embedded in modern enterprise software architectures.

Its low-cost, simplicity and robustness are why companies like Adobe have selected Alfresco
as their embedded content management repository of choice.

How and Why to Embed Alfresco covers:

The Business benefits of embedding Alfresco:

The webinar also addresses the technical reasons why Alfresco is a solid choice for your application:

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How are you handling content needs for your application today?

A Developer’s Guide to Alfresco, Part 3

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Join Jeff Potts, Content Management Practice Lead at Optaros,

as he shows you Web scripts, Surf, and CMIS.

This is the final webinar in a 3-part series, from Jeff.

This webcast covers the following:

1. What is the Web Script Framework?
   - Alfresco RESTful API

   - Used to declare a URL, bind it to logic, and provide views

   - Deployed to repository or classpath

2. What is CMIS?
   - Inter-operability through standard SOAP and RESTful bindings

   - SQL-based query language for rich content repositories

   - A language-independent, repository-independent API for content mgmt

3. What is SURF?
   - Web app dev framework built on web scripts

   - Essentially web scripts ++

   - Built-in hooks for talking to Alfresco

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A Developer's Guide to Alfresco

In the first of a 3-part webcast series,

Jeff Potts of Optaros and ECMarchitect.com gives an extensive review

of the capabilities and architecture of

Alfresco’s Enterprise Content Management system.

Topics covered in this webcast include:

1. What is Alfresco?
   Jeff reviews the APIs, file protocols, and technology standards that make Alfresco tick.

   He also addresses the types of content-centric functions Alfresco provides, and how you can use them. Document Management, Web Content Management, Records Management, and so on.

   And of course, he touches on Alfresco’s open source roots.

2. What can you do with Alfresco?
   Examples covered by Jeff include
   - Doc libraries, knowledge bases, team sites
   - Internet, Intranet, Extranet web sites
   - Custom content-centric apps
3. High-level architectural view
   – Alfresco Document Management,
   - Alfresco Web Content Management,
   - Review of an Alfresco custom front-end
4. Software demo of Alfresco’s Enterprise Content Management system
   

View: “A Developer’s Guide to Alfresco (part one) – Capabilities & Architecture”, here

Like SQL for Content Management Systems

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Alfresco Software is the first of the leading ECM vendors to provide an implementation of the draft Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification.

This draft specification describes a common API that allows developers to write content management applications that run against all CMIS-compliant repositories.

In this webcast, you’ll learn about the draft specification,

how to start writing CMIS applications using the first available draft implementation,

and how to take part in making this specification a standard.

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Increase Operational Efficiency, and Online Revenue

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All media companies are moving their business online. The need for online revenue and online operational efficiency has never been greater.

Optaros helps leading media companies like Turner Broadcasting, Hearst Corporation, The Washington Times, and the New York Times, and IDG increase online revenue and manage complex online publishing platforms.

Optaros helps customers increase online revenue by:

• Turning content into assets
• Expanding ad-supported business models
• Enabling content syndication business models
• Enabling API-based business models

Optaros also helps customers increase online operational efficiencies, by

• Integrating Digital Asset Management (DAM), Content Management, Community Management, Ad Management, Application Syndication, Workflow, and Reporting Systems
• Deploying multiple sites from a common component-based, service-oriented architecture

This short presentation is packed with really meaty strategies.

Expanding on-line revenue:

• Serving content to the audience at any aggregation point…
• Updating syndication capabilities beyond standard RSS…
• Distributing not just content, but also applications, and
• Exposing digital assets and data repositories – to enable API-based business models

In terms of increasing operational efficiency, the guys at Optaros suggest you:

• Assemble key media and publishing systems into a media service architecture
• Rationalize multi-site demployments
• Serve the 3-screen experience (PC, Mobile, TV) from a common platform

Join Bob Fitzpatrick, Bryan Spaulding, and Jeff Potts of Optaros,

as they walk you through these various examples of their know-how coupled with Alfresco’s capabilities.

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Alfresco Web Content Management

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Join Ian Howells, Alfresco’s Chief Marketing Officer, and Mike Farman, Director of Product Management, in this informative product review.

Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 includes:

• Microsoft Office SharePoint protocol support requiring no additional client installation
• Alfresco Surf platform for building dynamic, REST-oriented web applications and collaborative web sites
• RESTful API delivering content and collaboration services for customizing and developing Alfresco applications
• Preview of Alfresco Share, a new social computing application
• Document library which scales to over 100 million documents

Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 builds upon the solid foundation that previous versions of Alfresco have presented.

Alfresco is still 5 times faster, and up to 10 times cheaper than proprietary Enterprise Content Management solutions. But version 3.0 goes a step further. Alfresco 3.0 includes Alfresco Share – giving you Facebook features for the Enterprise.

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