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Book Details

    Language English
    Paperback 240 pages [191mm x 235mm]
    Release date January 2007
    ISBN 1904811116
    ISBN 13 978-1-904811-11-4
    Author(s) Munwar Shariff
    Topics and Technologies Content Management, Java

This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management in your business using Alfresco. It guides you through creating smart, collaborative content repositories, and shows how to use Alfresco to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes.


In Detail

Alfresco offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and aspires to be "Documentum fast and free", and was founded by a former Documentum executive. Alfresco can store a wide range of digital content in flexible, smart "spaces". Content is accessible through a web interface, shared network folders, FTP, WebDav, and other methods.

Users can set up Alfresco to process content in certain ways, according to business rules and workflow requirements. It can also apply version control to documents automatically, making it easy and safe to collaborate and update documents.

Alfresco is regarded as the most powerful open-source enterprise content management system. Using Alfresco, administrators can easily create rich, shared content repositories. This book shows you how to unleash this power to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise.

Read the full Table of Contents for Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation


What you will learn from this book

This book will take you through the complete cycle of planning, implementing and customizing your ECM installation. Among the many topics covered are:

Working with users and membership accounts, including LDAP integration
Using Alfresco as a Smart document repository; working with automatic version tracking and control, and accessing the repository from the Web, shared network folders, or FTP

Making content easy to find using search, content categorization, and metadata
Automating document management tasks with business rules and complete workflows
Working together using Alfresco's collaboration and syndication features to create effective working groups
Customizing the user interface, creating your own dashboard layouts; presenting content in custom ways relevant to your business


    Chapter 1: Introduction to Alfresco
    Chapter 2: Installing and getting started with Alfresco
    Chapter 3: Planning
    Chapter 4: Implementing Membership and Security
    Chapter 5: Implementing Document Management
    Chapter 6: Implementing Business Rules
    Chapter 7: Extending the Alfresco Content Model
    Chapter 8: Search
    Chapter 9: Implementing Simple Workflow
    Chapter 10: Collaboration and Syndication
    Chapter 11: Customizing User Interface
    Chapter 12: Maintaining the System

Approach

Munwar Shariff is an experienced software trainer for CIGNEX Inc. He has trained many users, administrators, and developers in Alfresco and many other systems. This book distils the hands-on approach of his training courses into a concise, practical book. The emphasis is on getting up and running fast and discovering the scope and power of Alfresco incrementally through practical discovery.

Who this book is written for

This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users or developers who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any upfront cost, often without management approval. The book assumes a degree of technical confidence but does not require specialist sysadmin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running.

Alfresco is particularly suitable for IT consultants who want or need to set up a flexible enterprise content management system for their clients, be that for demonstration, development, or as a mission-critical platform. This book gets you to that result quickly and effectively.

Author(s)

Munwar Shariff

Munwar Shariff is the CTO and VP of Business Development at CIGNEX. CIGNEX is the leading provider of open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for businesses and government agencies.

He has worked as the chief architect and manager of engineering teams for 15 years in the areas of system software, Internet applications and mobile commerce applications for customers in the United States, Japan, Germany, and India.

He is an expert in Content Management Systems (CMS). Since co-founding CIGNEX in late 2000, he has successfully delivered more than 50 CMS applications using various open source technologies. He has written a number of articles on open source CMS, he is an experienced trainer, and a frequent speaker at conferences related to this topic.

Munwar earned his MS in Digital Electronics and Advanced Communications from REC Surathkal, India. Munwar is the co-author of the book on Plone Open Source Content Management System called Plone Live.