Whats new in alfresco community 3.4

What’s New in Alfresco Community 3.4 Paul Hampton Director of Product Marketing

2010 Second Half Plans ● Alfresco Community / Enterprise 3.4 o Alfresco Web Quick Start o Alfresco WCM for Spring o Replication Services o Update to Alfresco Share ● Application Extensions o Portal Integration o XAM Content Store Support 2

New Web Functionality ● WCM Collaboration ● Alfresco Web Quick Start ● WCM Process Control ● WCM Services for Spring 3

WCM Collaboration ● Editorial management via Alfresco Share and Alfresco Web Editor (AWE) o Full enterprise process support – manage the review / approval process – ‘Office to Web’ o Rich collaboration environment o In-context authoring and editing o Support for CIFS, FTP, WebDAV, and CMIS ● Web producer o Site creation and configuration o Easy navigation config o Content Collections (static and dynamic) 4

Web Quick Start ● Example implementation o Best practice example o Written in Spring MVC, Spring Surf, OpenCMIS ● Combines the power of Share with OOTB template o Workflow, team collaboration, web configuration ● Industry focused templates for... o Government o Media and Entertainment o Finance ● Available for Community / Enterprise 3.4 and 3.3 5

Architecture Quick Start Web Application Quick Start Website API OpenCMIS 6

Image Carousel Easy navigation configuration Dynamic or static lists 7

Process Control ● Advanced Workflow (for both Share and WCM) o Exposed via collaboration environment ● Based on jBPM ● New Dashlets o Inbox o My Tasks – Filter by date, priority, assignee, workflow type, etc. ● Start workflow without content 8

Workflow – Screen Shots Filters Start Workflow Manage Workflow 9

WCM Services for Spring ● Integrates enterprise content with the web o Single content store for DM, RM, Collaboration and WCM ● Unified content services o End to End solution – Authoring to Delivery o Rich Content Modelling – Associations, Behaviours, Aspects, Rules/Actions and Constraints o Transformation service with rendition support (images and text) o Transfer services for content publishing / delivery o CMIS runtime for content delivery 10

WCM Development ● Development platform o Standards support – Spring, Spring Surf, CMIS, Java, REST o Lightweight scripting – Speed of development o Enterprise scale content services o Extensible (unrestricted) platform ● Spring developers tools 11

More Information... ● Install and Configuration o http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start_Installation_ and_Configuration ● Developers Guide o http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start_Developer_ Guide ● http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki & Search for ‘Quick Start’ 12

Content Replication ● Distributed repository replication o Selective replication of spaces, content and rules o Support for full, incremental and delete o One source – multiple destinations o Replicas are read-only o Update at source only (re-direct if needed) ● Benefits o Provide fast local access o Remove single point of failure o Reduce wide area network traffic 13

Content Replication Head Office Regional Office Regional Office SOP SOP SOP Master Local Content Copy Local Content Copy Local Content 14

Alfresco Share - Search ● Both Simple and Advanced ● Can search for... o Folders / Containers o Content (all types) o Custom types (example ‘Contract’) o Aspects (example ‘customer = ACME’) o Application specific (example ‘Contract and customer = ACME’) ● Extensible via forms 15

Search – Screen Shots 16

Alfresco Share Enhancements ● Redesigned UI / Toolbar o Improved usability o Ease of customisation and localisation ● Social and Collaboration o User status – What are you working on ● New Permissions o Who can create sites o Who can see ‘public’ sites 17

Alfresco Share – UI Redesign 3.4 Extensible Menu Status Update 3.3 18

Optimized Database Mapping ● Architecture Change – Remove Hibernate o Native Alfresco schema database mapping and cache o Optimized for Alfresco o Improved control of cache (tuned to Alfresco DB) o Improvements in reliability and performance ● OEM friendly license 19

Document Library for Portals ● DocLib Portlet for JSR168 Portals ● Portlets provides access to... o DM repository o Share Sites ● Access full DM functions ● Single sign on (SSO) ● Available for Community / Enterprise 3.3 and 3.4 20

Portlet – Screen Shot 21

XAM Content Connector ● A solution for ‘Fixed Content’ – content that will never be changed ● Extend Alfresco o Use Content Addressable Storage o Support the XAM compliant stores o Developed and QA’ed against EMC Centera o Designed to work with solutions from EMC, HP, IBM, Hitachi, Sun, etc. ● Alfresco Enterprise only feature 22

Localisation ● Alfresco driven local language packs o French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese ● Use existing language packs o Professional translators o Native language reviewers ● Improved consistency and terminology ● Will be released with Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 ● Will be available for Alfresco Community 3.4 23

Timing Core Alfresco Application Extensions ● Alfresco Community 3.4 ● Portal Integration o Released o Alfresco Community 3.4 Released ● Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 o Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 in o Mid December QA ● Alfresco Web Quick ● XAM Content Start (for 3.3) Connector o Early October o TBC 24

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