What's New In Alfresco 2.2? - Open Source ECM

Alfresco 2.2 Update Dr. Ian Howells, Alfresco CMO Alfresco Mike Farman Director ECM Products, ECM www.alfresco.com See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco2-2

Agenda

Alfresco Focus on Real Users

Architecture

Release History

Market Drivers

New in Alfresco 2.2

See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco2-2

Fit Within the User’s Environment Innovate Through Simplicity Shared Drive Interface Email Interface Multi- Channel Web Access Web Form Interface See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco2-2 Virtualization Rules Automation

Fit Within the User’s Environment Innovate Through Architecture Web Form Interface Massive Web 2.0 Replication Scalability High-Availability Cluster Staging Deploy Replicate Web Site Web Site Search Version Audit Workflow Shared Drive Interface Email Interface See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco2-2 Virtualization Rules Automation Repo Repo Cluster DBMS DBMS Change Sets

Rapid Innovation In Open Source Time

01/2005 Former Documentum Team Start from Scratch

06/2005 Preview Release – Repository and Web Client

10/2005 Release 1.0 – Document Management & CIFS

12/2005 Release 1.1 – Enterprise Security

02/2006 Release 1.2 – Developer - JSR-170, Templating & PHP

Former Interwoven Team Start WCM from Scratch

06/2006 Release 1.3 – Platform for ECM Apps – Scripting & Scalability

09/2006 Release 1.4 – Business Process – jBPM & Records Mgmt, Kofax Integration

01/2007 Release 2.0 – GPL, OpenSearch, WCM

07/2007 Release 2.1 – Web Scripts and Next-Gen Office Integration

REST Driven Web 2.0 Integration Users rate services, and view aggregate ratings from other users. Ajax interface means no need to refresh entire page Site communicates the availability of new services to existing Swisscom Mobile users Downloads are made available directly within the site for users to evaluate.

WCM Market Requirements

Very High, Low Cost, Commoditized Scalability

Rich Media Support

User Generated Content

Integration of Web 2.0 Components and Frameworks

Consistent Branding

Rapid Content Update Cycle

ECM Market Requirements

Email Integration and Storage

Email Collaboration

Systems Management and Server Administration

New in 2.2

Alfresco 2.1

Completion of Core Services

Deployment

Lifecycle Management

- Launch/Expiration

Links Management

Site Regeneration

JavaScript API Support

REST Support

WCM 2.2

Web Farm Deployment

Web Application Preview and Test

Site Templating and Branching

Asset Reuse

ECM 2.2

Email Archival

Email Collaboration

JMX Support

Web Farm Deployment 3 Tier Partitioning and Replication

To File-Servers and Repositories

Transactional Change Set Publishing

Single to 3-tier Architecture

Static Rich Media assets to remote web servers

Code assets to dedicated app servers

Content and metadata to remote repos

To single or multiple servers

Across multiple data centres

Via defined pools of remote test servers

Separate User Generated Content

Separate User Generated Content

Hybrid

Replication and Clustering

UGC Corporate User Generated Content Hybrid Architecture See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco2-2 Staging Sandbox Deployment

Web Application Preview and Test

Integrated Site virtualization

Any Site version

Any Site Type

Pools of Remote Test Servers

PHP

Ruby

.Net

Groovy

JSF/Lucene

Tiles

Struts

Site Templating and Branching Simple Website Creation

Rapid Site Update

Site Creation via Branching

Full New site Virtualization

Rapid Site Creation

Templates Managed as Web projects

Pre-Defined Site and Projects Templates

Asset Reuse

Cross-Repository Asset Reuse

Virtual Files and Folders

Transparent Reuse across Micro-Sites

Cross-repository synchronization

Transactional, incremental, parallel

Support for rollback, reporting, history

Authoring Sandbox Workflow Sandbox Staging Sandbox Deployment Change Sets Change Sets See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco2-2

Web Project Search

Web Client Search

Sandbox – Staging and User

Full Set of Actions

Because only content checked-in and snapshotted in Staging is indexed for searching, search within a user sandbox returns just those items currently available in Staging, filtering out any items a user may have deleted within their sandbox See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco2-2

Inbound Email Server

Embedded SMTP Email Server

Can run in Process (Same JVM) or

Remote (via RMI)‏

Email In

Space - Content

Document - Discussion

Forum – New Topic

Topic - Post

Email Archival

Email

Attached Files

Metadata Extraction – Sender, Subject, To, CC

Alfresco JMX Support Overview

JSR-160 Support

Change log4j levels

e.g. turn debug on/off

Manage FTP/CIFS/NFS

Enable/Disable

Read-only mode

Single-user mode

Server max user limit

Inc. disable further logins

User sessions

Ticket Count

Ticket Invalidation

JMX Integration Benefits

High Availability

Avoid server restarts

Application Development and Troubleshooting

No server restart – e.g. changing log levels

Assist support in debugging running system

Remote Administration

Don’t need a console session on remote server

Application Usage Monitoring

Facilities are JMX Console Specific

Control Resource Usage Based on Available Hardware

Max Users

Road Map

Continue to Invest in Document Management, WCM and Repository

Enterprise Social Computing

Rich Internet Applications Interfaces

Enterprise Performance and Scalability

New APIs and Interfaces

Call To Action

Prepare for 3.0 Community release

Stay abreast of project documentation and timelines via our Wiki

Stay tuned for project updates at key milestones via Support newsletter

Get upgraded to latest 2.x enterprise offering

Get well-versed in Web Scripts

Get familiar with our future mash-up capabilities

Get well-versed in Alfresco WCM

Get familiar in Alfresco's new Dynamic Website Community add-on

Current Community offering to be updated based on 3.0 framework

Get familiar with pending 3.0 capabilities

Review JIRA issues filed against Project Slingshot (3.0)

Comment as needed on criticality, usefulness for key capabilities

Alfresco Moves ECM Forward

Open Source model evolves faster

Extend open source components into ECM

Scalable systems from open development

Social Computing requires new models

Merge inside and outside data models

Lightweight programming speeds development

Mashable architecture uses the best of both worlds

Enterprise fit for purpose

Scalable, Multi-tenant and Robust

Fits enterprise standards of OS, DBMS, and Development

What you can do today

Why You Should Upgrade Today to 2.2 or 2.1.1

2.2 is Foundation for Collaboration

Web Scripts, Enterprise, AVM permissions, Deployment enhancements, E-mail integration, Admin

Move off 1.4 or earlier

Architects should experiment with 2.9 for potential application and collaboration soon

Prepare for Alfresco 3.0 knowledge worker infrastructure in production in the Enterprise in mid-year

2008 is the Year of the Knowledge Worker

Learn

Developer Webinar Series

“ Built in 60 Minutes”

Try

New Content Community Code Samples

Develop

Developer Guide and Resources

Contribute

Over 50 Contributed

Win

iPod Touch

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What's New In Alfresco 2.2? - Open Source ECM

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