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What We Love About Alfresco 5.1
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Today’s Presenters
Zia Consulting, Inc. Zia Consulting, Inc.
Kristen Harris
Director,
Strategic
Solutions
Bindu Wavell
Chief Architect

3.
Introducing Alfresco 5.1!
 Enterprise Release: February 2016
 Substantial Enhancements on 5.0
 Simple for Business
 Smart for IT
 Alfresco Records Management 2.4
 Co-Released with Activiti BPM 1.4
 Unified Platform for Business Solutions

4.
Top 5 New Features of Alfresco 5.1
 Business users care about…
 Business analysts and system administrators
are intrigued by…
 Enterprise architects are excited for…

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New Feature #1 for Business Users
Default Landing Page Benefits
 Consistent place to
begin in Alfresco Share
 Easy to change or reset
 Simplify experience for
casual or power users

6.
New Feature #2 for Business Users
Become Owner Action Benefits
 Reset document
ownership of a
document without
Administrator’s help
 No scripting required

7.
Quick demo of features…
Sneak Peak for Business Users

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New Feature #3 for Analysts/Devs
Smart Folders Benefits
 Optimize file organization for
different types of users
 Supports assigning metadata
automatically
 Available with CMIS and
WebDAV

9.
Smart folder demo…
Features for Business Analysts and
System Administrators

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New Feature #3 for Analysts/Devs
Smart Folders Basics
 Enable smart folders in Alfresco global properties
 Create or leverage your content model for specifying
queries
 Create a smart folder template with JSON
 Associate a smart folder template with a physical
repository folder

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New Feature #4 for Analysts/Devs
Content Modeling UI
 User interface for the
creation and review of
Alfresco content model
Benefits
 Reduces manual XML
editing for creating
custom types and aspects
 Update the content model
without restart

12.
Content Modeling UI demo…
Features for Business Analysts and
System Administrators

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New Feature #5 for Architects
Solr
Replication/Sharding
 Splitting a single Solr
index into multiple parts
 Each part can be
replicated multiple times
and split across multiple
machines
Benefits
 Split or scale your index
volume
 Provides high availability
 May increase
performance/throughput
with distributed
operations

14.
Solr Replication
Clustering
with Solr in
Alfresco 4.x & 5.0
Option with
Solr replication
in Alfresco 5.1

15.
Solr Sharding
Replicating shards
across instances

16.
Solr Sharding
Viewing it
another way…
Instance 1 Instance 2
Instance 3 Instance 4

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Solr Sharding
Continuing with additional redundancy

18.
Who is Zia?
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Content People

19.
Zia Vitality Review
 Current State
 Roadmap
 Fixes
 Enhancements
 Upgrade
Recommendation

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If You Are Running…
 Alfresco 5.0 vs. 5.1 – Smart Folders, Simplified
Permissions, Solr Sharding (Search & Scale),
Independent Share, API Enhancements
 Alfresco 4.2 vs. 5.1 – Above + HTML5 Preview,
Office Integration, Activiti/Share Connector, Aurora
Database support, Alfresco Analytics
 Alfresco 3.4 vs. 5.1 – Virtually Everything

21.
Next Steps
 Talk to us/talk to our customers
 Alfresco 5.1 + Your Business
 Whiteboarding/Demo
 Zia Vitality Review
 Alfresco 5.1 enterprise trial
 Zia Managed Cloud Services
 ziaconsulting.com/resources - Case Studies, Webinar
Recordings, Datasheets

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Questions?