Introduction to Alfresco 3.0 - Presentation Transcript
Dr. Ian Howells CMO A l fresco September 2008 Alfresco Labs 3 Briefing See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco3
Agenda
Market Dynamics and Drivers behind 3
Release History
Alfresco Labs 3
Microsoft SharePoint TM Protocol Support
Alfresco Share
CMIS
Surf
Repository
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Content Management Market Dramatic Change Getting into 21 st Century See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco3 Social Networking CMIS Open Source Traditional ECM WCM SharePoint
The New World of Content Management See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco3 CMIS Applications and Repositories SharePoint Mixed Environment No SharePoint SharePoint 100% Microsoft
Rapid Innovation In Open Source Time
06/2005 Preview Release – Repository and Web Client
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Alfresco Labs 3
First Microsoft Office SharePoint protocol support
No Additional Client Installation
Alfresco Share
New Collaborative Social Computing Dynamic Web 2.0 Application
First CMIS Support
New Content Management Standard supported by Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, OpenText, Oracle
Alfresco Surf WCM platform
Build dynamic, REST/CMIS-oriented Webapps and Collaborative Web Sites
Scalability
Multi-tier Lightweight CMIS/REST Architecture
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Questions
What do you Mean by SharePoint?
What requirements does SharePoint place on my Enterprise software infrastructure?
What is the SharePoint Protocol?
What is SharePoint Protocol Support?
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SharePoint at a Top Level Content Management Perspective Collaborative Document Management Windows SharePoint Services Content Repository Office SharePoint Server 2007 ECM Suite User Interfaces Office SharePoint Server 2007 Core ECM Services Microsoft Office Client Applications Microsoft SharePoint Portal Web Services Records Management Web Content Management eForms Management Workflow Metadata Library Services Policy Management Search Security Excel Services Slide Library Information Rights Management
Content Collaboration CIFS/WebDAV Shared Drive Office Outlook See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco3
Alfresco Content Collaboration ECM Enable CIFS/WebDAV Repo ECM Enable Office ECM Enable Email See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco3
SharePoint Protocol End User Experience SharePoint Site Office Check In/Out Version New Workspace Pane See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco3
What is the SharePoint Protocol
Microsoft is extending Office
By Embedding into Office a New Proprietary Protocol
To Offer Content Management Functionality
That Only Runs against a SharePoint Repository
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Implications of the SharePoint Platform
Forces Users to use a Microsoft Stack
Windows, SQL Server, IIS, .NET, C ♯, IE+, MS Office, SharePoint Portal
No
Oracle, DB2, MySQL
J2EE JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere
PHP, Java, Adobe
Portal
Firefox-
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Which SharePoint
WSS
MOSS Standard
Social Computing
ECM – Workflow
WCM
Portal – MySites
Enterprise Search
Management
MOSS Enterprise
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The Good News
The EC broke the Monopoly
Forced the protocol to be Published
Alfresco is the the First ECM Vendor to Support the Office SharePoint Protocol
Break the Monopoly and return Choice and Control to Users
Escape CALS
Lower TCO
Reuse Existing Skills
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Alfresco SharePoint Compatibility Office thinks it’s SharePoint Check-InOut Version Control
Demonstration
Access from Microsoft Office TM
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Alfresco Share
Sites
Dashboards
Site, Personal
Site Components
Document Library
Blog, Wiki
Search
People
Activities
Calendar, Discussions
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Document Library
Bulk Upload
Thumbnails
Flash Document Viewer
Meta-Data, Tags
Multi-Select
RSS
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Flash Document Viewer Extendable DAM
Automatic Generation of Flash Renditions including:
Word, PowerPoint, Excel
OpenOffice
Pluggable Rendition Engine
Flash Video/Audio
Reduced Bandwidth
High Performance Viewing
Remove Client Application Dependencies
Office 2003, Office 2007
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Simple Administration and Configuration
Simple Administration
Quick Install
Delegated Site Admin
Simple Configuration
Drag Drop Layout
Open Gadget Framework
Open Web Script Components
AJAX YUI
Friendly urls
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Demonstration
Marketing Launch
Dashboard
Marketing Site
Product Marketing
Wiki Product Information
Marketing Communications
Presentations and Documents
Discuss
Invite Team
Review Material
Schedule Calendar Event
Blog
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CMIS First Draft CMIS Implementation
SQL for the Content Management Industry
Content Management Interoperability Services
Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle and SAP
Usage
Write-Once, Run Anywhere Application
Integrate Multiple Repositories
Business Process Across Repositories
Learn One UI for ALL Repositories
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REST API
Site
Person
Invite
Activities
Rendition
Thumbnail
Tagging
Preferences
Discussion
Blogging
Comment
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Alfresco Surf Web Application Presentation Framework
Page Model
UI Content Component Model
YUI, Adobe Flash – Dynamic Upload, Preview
Lightweight Web Scripting and Templating
Open
Portal - Web Part in Microsoft SharePoint Portal
Wiki, Blog
XML, Freemarker, JSP, HTML, Java
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Alfresco Surf Applications
Alfresco Share
Alfresco Enterprise Network
Alfresco Web Studio
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New Products and Protocols Sites People YUI Collaboration Components Components Pages Templates MS Office SharePoint Protocol CMIS REST & Web Services API CIFS, WebDAV, FTP & NFS Java Alfresco Repository Alfresco Surf Alfresco Share JavaServer Faces (JSF) Alfresco Document Management via Microsoft Office Alfresco Web Content Management
Surf Scalability Multi-Tier Web 2.0 Architecture Alfresco Web Studio Alfresco Network Alfresco Share Ajax Flex REST API Alfresco Surf Alfresco Repository Surf-based Apps Non-Alfresco Repository
Alfresco Enterprise Network Completion of Phase One
Alfresco Knowledge Base
Alfresco Call Tracking (ACT)
Alfresco News
Documentation and Downloads
Support Handbook
User Management and Single Sign On
Check-In Feed Dashlet
Alfresco Share Dashlet
Add-ons Library
3.0 Repository Enhancements
Performance & Scalability
Version Store Refactor
Significant reduction in storage
2x faster to create, 10x faster to version
Audit Properties Refactor
Reduced DB storage requirements Multi-valued Properties Refactor
Unlimited group sizes
Permission evaluation performance
Remote OpenOffice Transformation Service
Integrity
Remove Lucene Dependency for Person Service
Clustering resilience
Multi-Tenancy for DM
Updated Installers
Windows
Linux
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Alfresco’s 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
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Alfresco Labs Next Steps
www.alfresco.com
Download
Alfresco Labs
Installing Labs 3
Join Content Community
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CMIS Next Steps
DC and Munich Events
Meet the Experts
In Depth Presentation and Training on Alfresco 3
SharePoint Protocol Support
Share
Surf
CMIS
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See the recorded webinar here: http:// tinyurl .com/alfresco3 Introduction to Alfresco 3.0
Microsoft Office SharePoint protocol support requiring no additional client installation
Alfresco Surf platform for building dynamic, REST-oriented web applications and collaborative web sites
RESTful API delivering content and collaboration services for customizing and developing Alfresco applications
Preview of Alfresco Share, a new social computing application
Document library which scales to over 100 million documents
Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 builds upon the solid foundation that previous versions of Alfresco have presented. Alfresco is still 5 times faster, and up to 10 times cheaper than proprietary Enterprise Content Management solutions. But version 3.0 goes a step further. Alfresco 3.0 includes Alfresco Share - giving you Facebook features for the Enterprise.
Key features of Alfresco Share include:
Collaboration areas for Teams, Projects, Communities of Interest
Personal and Site Dashboards
Activity Service
Social Tagging
Thumbnails and Previews
Rich Personal Profiles
People Finder
Site Finder
Alfresco 3.0 is strongly positioned as the Open Alternative to Microsoft SharePoint:
Not Microsoft Only
Use your existing Database, OS, App Server, Portal
Plug-compatible with Office
Lower Cost of Ownership
Re-use existing non-Microsoft hardware and software
Use existing development & DBA skills
Scale to enterprise on much fewer machines
The social computing features for the workplace include:
Drag-and-drop layout
Web 2.0 controls
Community-based features
Browse by tags
WYSIWYG editing
Publish to external blogs
Wiki and calendars less
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