Posts Tagged ‘optaros’
Developer’s Guide 3 – Web Scripts, Surf and CMIS (Optaros)
Sunday, May 24th, 2009View the recorded webcast
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:
- 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
- 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
- What is SURF?
- Web app dev framework built on web scripts- Essentially web scripts ++
- Built-in hooks for talking to Alfresco
View the recorded webcast – A Developer’s Guide to Alfresco, Part 3 (Web Scripts, Surf & CMIS)
Developer’s Guide 2 – Metadata, Rules, Workflows (Optaros)
Sunday, May 10th, 2009View the recorded webcast
Join Jeff Potts, Content Management Practice Lead at Optaros,
as he shows you how to work the Alfresco content model, rules & actions.
This is part 2 of a 3-part series for Alfresco Developers.
Bob Acme: “My company has a bunch of digital assets. Ready for loading into Alfresco. But if I stick them into the repository without tagging them properly, I’m just using Alfresco as a glorified file-system.”
You can get a lot more out of the Alfresco repository, if you start tagging content, and associating content with metadata.
Topics covered in this webcast include:
- How do I model custom metadata?
- What are actions?
- Jeff explains these discrete units of work, and how they can be called from different places (UI, rules, java, javascript, or workflow steps) - Demo- Code review- Building actions and work flows- Building rules
View the recorded webcast – A Developer’s Guide to Alfresco, Part 2 (Metadata, Rules & Workflows)
Developer’s Guide 1 – Capabilities & Architecture (Optaros)
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009In 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:
- 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.
- 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 - High-level architectural view
– Alfresco Document Management,
- Alfresco Web Content Management,
- Review of an Alfresco custom front-end - Software demo of Alfresco’s Enterprise Content Management system
View: “A Developer’s Guide to Alfresco (part one) – Capabilities & Architecture”, here
The Media Industry: Next Generation Online Media on Alfresco
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008All 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.

