Alfresco Webcasts

Sustainable Integrated Development Environment (SIDE) Tools

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SIDE is a set of graphical tools for Alfresco developers and systems integrators who want to produce Alfresco based applications in a much easier, faster and more effective way than by manual programming.

SIDE stands for Sustainable IDE, an open source project founded by Blue XML, the Alfresco Technology partner. Join Jean-Christophe Kermagoret and see the SIDE graphical environment in action. In this session, he defines content types, designs forms, reports, views and workflows, all without writing a single line of code!

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A Developer’s Guide to Alfresco, Part 2

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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:

1. How do I model custom metadata?
2. 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)
3. Demo- Code review- Building actions and work flows- Building rules

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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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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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ROI-Based Enterprise Content Management

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Enterprise Content Management systems have historically been viewed as an expense, a necessary evil to meet compliance standards, for example.

Rarely is ECM viewed as an opportunity to not only cut costs, but possibly to even add to the top line.

Peter Dartnell  lays out how he and his team, along with system integrator OA Solutions, tackled the  significant content management challenges that Alberta Seniors faced with its infrastructure.  All with dollars and cents in mind.

With a focus on improvement of system delivery, Alberta Seniors realized that Alfresco is a platform.  And thus, the most value could be extracted from it, even as they integrated it with other legacy systems.
This webinar is a , case study of how Alberta Seniors used Alfresco to deal with business challenges in our environment.  The examples Peter will cover include:

1 > Education Property Tax program

• Lots of manual data collected from seniors in the province every year.
• We were already imaging them, but we needed to set up a workflow. Alfresco was a solution.

2> Major challenge with our workforce retiring, and walking out of the door with all that knowledge.

• We built a Knowledge Management application on top of Alfresco.
• The user doesn’t know we’re using Alfresco.
  But we’re using lifecycle, web scripts… it’s all Alfresco.

Also:

• Hear about the importance and value of Alfresco being built on a REST architecture.
• Find out why mapping to a drive letter helps change management
• Get Peter’s take on how much focus should be on Records Management versus Document and Web Content Management.

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