Alfresco Enterprise CMS Solution

1. I’m a PC
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2. อัลเฟรสโก้(Alfresco)
True Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
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3. ที่มาของเนื้อหา
 www.alfresco.com
 WCM Product Evaluation Guide
 Wikipedia
 JSR170

4. เรื่องเล่าวันนี้ (Agenda 4 today)
 Alfresco?
 What is ECM?
 History of Alfresco
 Basic idea of Alfresco
 Product in the same category
 Alfresco Document Management
 Alfresco Web Content Management
 Any Questions?

5. Alfresco
 กลางแปลง[ADJ] alfresco,
See also: outdoor; open-air; in
the playground, Syn. กลางแจ้ง,
Example: คืนนี้ที่หมู่บ้านมีหนังกลาง
แปลงมาฉาย,
Thai definition: แสดงหรือเล่น

6. What is ECM anyway?
Alfresco is ECM, so what is ECM anyway?
 Basic functions of ECM
 Capture
 Manage
 Store
 Preserve
 Deliver

7. What is ECM?
The model includes in the quot;Managequot; category five
traditional application areas:
 Document management (DM),
 Collaboration (or collaborative software, groupware),
 Records management (RM) (archive and filing
management systems on long‐term storage media)
and
 Workflow / Business process management (BPM)
 Web content management (WCM) (including web
portals),

8.  Commercial
 Oracle ECM (Stellen)
 IBM ECM(FileNet)
 OpenText
 Opensource
 Magnolia
 Exo Platform

9. History of Alfresco
 2005
 John Newton, co‐founder of Documentum
 John Powell, former COO of Business Objects
 investment firms SAP, Accel Partners and Mayfield
Fund
 2006
 acquiring senior technical and managerial staff from
Interwoven
 2007
 hired the principal sales engineer from Vignette.

10. Alfresco WCM
 Is an Add on module
 Both DM and WCM is in the single repo.
 Community version
 Enterprise version

11. Alfresco WCM
Alfresco Web Content Management (WCM) extends
Alfresco 2.1’s capabilities in the following areas:
 XML content authoring
 Multi‐channel content publishing
 Sandboxed content development
 Virtualization and in‐context preview of both
static and dynamic web pages
 Content staging, promotion, workflow, and
snapshots
 Links validation
 Content launch and expiration

12. XML content authoring
 Dynamic Form to collect content from user
 Create reusable XML using a simple browser‐based form
 Register XML Schemas (XSDs)
 Capabilities provided within a form include support for:
 WYSIWYG content authoring with customizable controls on a
field‐by‐field basis
 Re‐ordering and deletion of elements within a repeating list
 Enforced data types with pre‐defined UI controls for data input
 Standard HTML data entry widgets, including checkboxes, drop‐
downs, radio‐buttons, and multi‐select lists
 File‐browser control creating references other assets with
support for constraint based on asset type (file or folder) and
mimetype
 Client‐side data validation

13. Multi‐channel Content Publishing
 XSL
 Freemarker
 XSLFO templates
To generate multiple output format
 HTML
 Text
 PDF
 Ext.

14. Sandboxed Content Development
 Provides each user with their own special
space
 They can make any number of changes to
web content, including adding, editing, or
deleting both files and folders
 Maintains those changes in isolation from
other
user’s
 Their own separate virtual staging
environmentsText

15. Tracking Updates
 Versioning
 File versioning
 Directory versioning
 Snapshoting
 Rollback
 Automatic support for site snapshots, rollback to any
snapshot
 Each submission versions each file & parent directories
 Each submission snapshots staging sandbox
 Each snapshot available for rollback
 Recovers deletions, moves, renames, etc.
 Allows website to rollback to any point in time

16. Enterprise Deployment

17. Alfresco WCM
Content Production Content Delivery
Production Model
Workflow
Roles Static , Dynamic
Content Modeling Runtime
Versioning Deployment
FileSystem
Protection

18. Alfresco WCM
Content Production Content Delivery
Low traffic High traffic
Read/Write Read
Content QA Deployment Flexible
Workflow Scalability

19. Deploying Updates
Manual or Automatic
 Deploy Staging to 1 or
more:
 Remote File Servers
 Alfresco runtime
servers
 Can also deploy any
snapshots
 Monitoring and logging
 Transactional
 Incremental

20. Virtualization and In‐context Preview
 User has a control over their content in the
sandbox
 Complete virtual view of the website as it
would look if all changes in a sandbox where
committed
 A large, diverse web team can easily
collaborate on changes to the website with
reduced risk

21. Content Staging, Promotion, Workflow,
and Snapshots
 Promoted from a sandbox to a Staging
sandbox
 Submitted changes are routed via workflow
 Once approved, a snapshot is automatically
taken of Staging
 All committed changes are immediately
reflected

22. Content Deployment
 Good snapshots of Staging
 Replicate incremental content changes
 Remote file server
 Remote Alfresco server
 Tracking which Staging snapshot is currently
live

23. Link Validation
 Within a sandbox
 users can check links within a
 web application
 Alfresco GUI to interactively correct and re‐
test links

24. Content Launch and Expiration
 Set a specific launch and expiration date

25. WebForm
 Dynamic Form to collect content from user

26. Filesystem Projection
 Similar to Subversion
 Can browse through project using windows
explorer
 Can access to any stage of document,
sandbox, preview and snapshot

27. Filesystem Projection

28. CMSI(Content Management Inter‐
operability Services)

29. Questions and Answers