This session will talk about the use case on how the Department of Veteran's Affairs is leveraging Alfresco for their WCM.

1. How the Department of
Veteran'ʹs Affairs Uses
Alfresco
Michael Ward

2. The Portal Landscape
The Content Problem
Unlocking the Content
Adopting Standards
The CMS Timeline
Agenda
Interactive WCM
Questions

3. The Portal Landscape
Veteran
Resources
Stakeholders
for Veterans
Veteran Self
Service
•
“I
went
to
a
bookstore
and
asked
the
saleswoman,
'Where's
the
self-­‐help
section?'
She
said
if
she
told
me,
it
would
defeat
the
purpose.”
–
George
Carlin

4. The Content Problem
Content Chemistry
• Code with Content, Flat Taxonomies and Metadata
Content Delivery
• Depends on Releases, Content in Development Lifecycles, Hard to Use
Standards
• No Separations of Concerns, Vendor lock-­‐‑in with APIs, No Backwards Compatibility
Opportunity Costs
• No Subject MaSer Expertise, Only Dev and Portal Support, not CMS
Buy In
• Feature Driven vs. Platform?

5. Unlocking the Content

6. Adopting Standards
CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services)
BPMn (Business Process Modeling and Notation)
HTTP Cache in a CDN (Content Delivery Network)
REST (Representational State Transfer)
Open Source

7. The CMS Timeline
Weblogic
VCR and
Bulk
Publisher
Alfresco
WCM and
the
Deployer
Alfresco
Repository
and Share
CMS
Services

8. Interactive WCM
The Winning WCM
Components
• Business Interaction
with the Content
• Smart Content Delivery
• A Supportive Process

9. Questions?