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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

You're reading from Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation With Alfresco 4 you can manage content across the enterprise more effectively and corroboratively. This book helps you achieve great results, however basic or sophisticated your needs, with a hands-on, training course approach.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782160021

Length 514 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Alfresco

Concepts

CMS

Authors (4):

Munwar Shariff

Shah

Prajapati

Pal

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Introduction to Alfresco FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing Alfresco

3. Getting Started with Alfresco

4. Implementing Membership and Security

5. Implementing Document Management

6. Implementing Business Rules

7. Extending Alfresco Content Model

8. Implementing Workflow

9. Integrating External Applications with Alfresco

10. Alfresco Administration Operations Using Alfresco Share

11. Customizing the User Interface

12. Search in Alfresco

13. Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing

14. Administering and Maintaining the System

Index

Migrating existing content into Alfresco

If you want your Enterprise Content Management initiative to be successful, you need to make sure that you can move the existing content into the new system. Most of the enterprises will have content in the form of files (in local or shared hard disks), e-mail attachments, fax (invoices) and scanned images. It is very important to move the content to a centralized and highly scalable content repository such as Alfresco.

Alfresco being a powerful content management system for the enterprise supports various ways to migrate existing content in the enterprise.

Drag-and-drop content to the network drive

You can use drag-and-drop (bulk upload) content from your local hard disks to Alfresco server using options such as CIFS, FTP, or WebDAV. Refer the Use network drives to manage content section in this chapter to know how to move content from your hard disk to Alfresco server.

The issue with this approach is that you will have to manually update the metadata...

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Authors (4)

Munwar Shariff

Munwar Shariff

Munwar Shariff, as a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at CIGNEX Datamatics, brings over 20 years of industry experience and proven technical leadership. He oversees the enterprise architecture solution team and provides strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing technology-based services and solutions. Defining initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of pioneering technologies are his areas of expertise.He is an entrepreneur, open source technologist, and author of the following four technical books: Plone Live Implementing Alfresco Alfresco3 WCM Alfresco3 ECM He contributes to the open source community by journaling submissions on open source CMS, and has been a featured speaker at AIIM USA, JBoss World, DAM Conference, Plone Conference, Linux World, Gilbane, CTC, Yahoo OSCMS, Saudi Government, and CA World.Munwar has also served on board at the Plone Foundation and is currently a board member at CIGNEX Datamatics.

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Shah

Shah

Snehal Shah has extensive experience in implementing enterprise web applications using J2EE technologies. He is the co-founder of Techforce Infotech where he has worked on various J2EE based solutions, various open source product customizations, and worked on business expansion. He was also involved in building a team and finalizing the technology path for the organization. At his previous employer, CIGNEX Datamatics, he rolled out numerous Alfresco deployments worldwide in the areas of document management, web content management, and Share. He has also worked on application-based Liferay and Moodle products. Prior to CIGNEX, he has worked on various J2EE-based solutions using cutting edge technologies. He has worked with clients in education, legal, and marketing domains across the world. He has worked on defining architecture for various projects, which involves multiple product integrations. In his previous organizations, he was involved in deciding the technology path of the organization and was also involved in various internal technical training. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering from Deemed University, DDIT India. He has also worked as a Technical Reviewer for the books Alfresco 3 Cookbook and Alfresco Share.

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Prajapati

Prajapati

Jayesh Prajapati is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. He has extensive experience in implementing Enterprise Web Applications using J2EE technologies. For the past six years, at CIGNEX Datamatics, he has rolled out numerous Alfresco deployments worldwide in the areas of Document and Web Content Management. He has worked on Performance-tuning projects where Alfresco was deployed in clustered and load balanced environments. He has also implemented Integrated Content Management Portal (ICMP) where Alfresco WCM is used as the central repository and Liferay as Portal. He has also implemented Alfresco WCM to serve Flex-based portals. He has worked with clients in the travel and hospitality, healthcare, academic, and high-tech domains. He has been involved in providing training on Alfresco Document Management. Jayesh holds an MS in Computer Applications and Information technologies from the North Gujarat University, India

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Pal

Pal

Vandana Pal is a software engineer and author. She currently works as senior consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has extensive experience working with Enterprise Digital Asset Management and Content Management Systems. She has worked with various deployments of Alfresco in various domains, such as media, finance, and healthcare, for different organizations across the world. She has hands-on experience working with architecture design, performance tuning, security implementation, integration, and the orchestration of complex workflows in Alfresco. She has more than 7 years of experience in software engineering. Her journey in this field began when she started working with different open source technologies and found them interesting. She holds a bachelors of engineering degree in information technology from Gujarat University, India. Vandana has also coauthored Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation.

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