Alfresco Webinar Recordings

Using Ingres (Open Source Database Management System) with Alfresco

In this webcast by J. Tyler McGraw of Ingres- you’ll get to see an overview and demo of the Ingres Database Management System… configured for use with Alfresco.

This complete open source stack provides Enterprise-grade content management, scalability, reliability and recoverability.

In this webcast, you’ll learn:

• How to download and configure Ingres to run with Alfresco
• The advantages of using Ingres with Alfresco
• Overview on Ingres technology and technical requirements
• Enterprise class document management and ‘scalability’ performance tuning options
• Ingres and Alfresco back up and Disaster Recovery strategies
• Joint Ingres and Alfresco customer success stories

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Download the Forrester Wave Report to see what independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc. has to say about Ingres.

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Companies of all sizes are looking to reduce IT-related costs, resulting in a huge increase in the level of interest in Commercial Open Source solutions.

As the leading provider of Open Source Enterprise Content Management, Alfresco is uniquely placed in providing a

robust, scalable, feature-rich content platform

at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.

Alfresco ECM includes:

• Document Management
• Web Content Management
• Records Management
• Team Collaboration
• Digital Asset Management

This webinar presented the requirements for enterprise scale roll-out, and an “Enterprise Top 10 Decision Matrix”, based on customer experience to guide selection.

It gave an overview of Alfresco Enterprise Edition,

explained what is coming in Alfresco Enterprise 3.2,

and compared to the Alfresco Community Edition.

The webinar also covers how commercial, Enterprise class Open Source means:

• A full Service Level Agreement (SLA)  – not “unsupported”
  
• Support for both Open Source and Commercial Stacks
  
• Supporting sites with millions of users and terabytes of content through External Authentication, Load Balancing and Clustering
  
• High-Availability with Clustering and Run-Time Reconfiguration
  
• Live JMX System Monitoring and Configuration Reporting
  
• Information Life cycle Management

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Alfresco beats SharePoint at NJ Prison

The prison population in the US is exploding, and with it the volume of inmate paperwork.

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Inmate document storage is becoming a serious issue, with documents taking up more and more valuable space, and document retrieval taking longer and longer.

Chenoa is an Alfresco Systems Integration partner, with expertise in Inmate Document Management.

Chenoa recently built an Alfresco-based Document Management solution for the Warren County, NJ Department of Corrections.

Avoiding vendor lock-in

1. Find out why Alfresco was chosen over Documentum and SharePoint
2. Learn the challenges of replacing a paper-based system
3. Witness the integration of other technologies into Alfresco document management, including:

• Fingerprint authentication
• PDF forms
• Digital signature technology

This is a fascinating story, with cross-industry application.

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Web 2.0 Powered Collaboration with Alfresco

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The emergence and adoption of Web 2.0 has produced a new generation of web sites.

Sites that deliver rich user experiences.

Through information sharing and user participation.

Next generation enterprise web sites are increasingly focused on and utilizing the power of collaboration and community through Web 2.0 technologies. And Alfresco’s content repository provides the capabilities to enable these platforms.

Join Rivet Logic and Alfresco as they explore how Alfresco has been used as the backbone of content-rich Web 2.0 collaboration platforms, through real life case studies:

• Alfresco Web Content Management used to manage content in a consumer facing Web 2.0 site that’s integrated into the Facebook social network platform
• Alfresco Document Management used in industry-specific, document-centric sites.
  By allowing ad-hoc groups to collaborate on top of a document repository while supporting complex workflow processes.
• The education sector engaged in online collaboration to share and develop best practices.

You’ll learn about:

• How the Alfresco content management platform supports content-rich applications
• Leveraging the value of existing content through a robust content repository
• Developing scalable and agile solutions to accommodate cost effective growth
• The benefits of Web 2.0 enabled collaboration communities
• Building next generation applications based on open source

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Create RESTful Alfresco APIs

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Alfresco Web scripts enable you to open up Alfresco, and make it accessible to other tools and applications.

In this webcast, you will learn how to:

• Provide the Alfresco repository with content services that are accessible from anywhere
  
• Query the repository, extract content, and alter the repository behavior
• Expose the repository for document management and web content management
• Provide customized search facilities
• You can even have dynamically delivered content that is managed by Alfresco’s Web Content Management functionality.

Join Richard Im in this webcast, in which Alfresco is used to create an API that is RESTful, allowing for scalable and cross-platform data and content exchange.

Oh, and without the need for any Java, .NET, or specialized programming skills.

• Learn when and why to use WebScripts (over other Alfresco APIs).
• Examine the top 3 Alfresco Developer Challenge Web Script entries.

Agenda:

• What is a Web Script?
• Common uses of Web Scripts
• Create a Web Script for UI components
• Create a Web Script for data retrieval
• In-depth sample

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Alfresco Enterprise Edition 2.2

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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

Agenda:

• 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

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