Introducing Alfresco Community Edition 3.2

Alfresco Community Edition 3.2

Designed to Improve Compliance, Productivity & Integration


In addition to enabling mobile content management, streamlining email management and supporting open specifications and standards - including CMIS and IMAP - Alfresco Community 3.2 also lays the groundwork for records management support for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 certification in September 2009.



Reducing costs, improving integration, increasing innovation and supporting regulatory requirements top the list of priorities for IT executives in 2009, according to a recent report issued by Forrester Research*.

Alfresco has responded to each of these industry demands in developing enhancements to Alfresco Community Edition 3.2.


New features in Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 include:

* Enhanced Records Management – Laying the groundwork for supporting Records Management (RM) in readiness for DoD 5015.2 certification in September 2009, Alfresco RM will enable companies to support the strict legal requirements needed to manage vital company information.

Functionality will include:
- metadata management,
- YUI-based forms,
- lifecycle management,
- CMIS-based query access,
- email capture, import/export facility and
- auditing.

* Mobile Access – The Smartphone client provides support for mobile devices (including Apple’s iPhone), providing the first ECM designed to enable mobile collaboration for business processes on the go.

Users can now search, view and edit content, activities and tasks from anywhere. Rather than delivery by desktop application, the client interface is designed for the new Smartphone form factors.


* Email Client Access & Archiving via IMAP Support – Simple ‘drag and drop’ allows users to share key messages with colleagues and team members without contributing to the ever-growing volume of forwarded email.

Alfresco’s unique transparent IMAP standard protocol support provides full access to repository services without a client install and can be accessed from mobile devices.

The virtualized repository support enables users to manage and archive emails within the corporate content repository.



* CMIS/Interoperability Support – Alfresco Community 3.2 offers full support (SOAP Web Services, REST and Query) for version 0.61 of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification, providing the most complete implementation of CMIS to date and allowing CMIS compliant clients and repositories to interoperate and share content across information silos.


* Extranet Collaboration – Alfresco Community 3.2 is scalable to tens of thousands of users, is cloud-ready for EC2 and other cloud service providers and supports content collaboration outside the enterprise or in the cloud.

* WCM Authoring and Deployment –
Huge performance increases to improve deployment of web site content to external web sites through highly-parallel web site deployment and publishing.

Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 is immediately available for download from http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_Community_Edition

1. Community Edition V3.2

2. Agenda
●Focus of 3.2
●Product Release History
●Alfresco 3.2
●More Information
●Downoad

3. Market Trends
Focus of 3.2
●Reduce IT Costs
●Improve Integration Between
Applications
●Use IT to Increase Innovation
●Support Regulatory
Applications
  69% > 6
Repo’s

4. Rapid Innovation
In Open Source Time
06/2005 Preview Release – Repository and Web Client
10/2005 Release 1.0 – Document Management & CIFS
12/2005 Release 1.1 – Enterprise Security
02/2006 Release 1.2 – Developer - JSR-170, Templating & PHP
06/2006 Release 1.3 – Platform for ECM Apps – Scripting & Scalability
09/2006 Release 1.4 – Business Process – jBPM & Records Mgmt, Kofax Integration
01/2007 Release 2.0 – GPL, OpenSearch, WCM
07/2007 Release 2.1 – Web Scripts and Office Integration
02/2008 Release 2.2 – Web Farm Management, Email Integration, JMX
07/2008 Release 3.0 – SharePoint Protocol Support, Collaboration Social Computing, CMIS
01/2008 Release 3.1 – Enterprise Deployment and Support
07/2009 Release 3.2 – Extranet, Email, CMIS, Foundation RM DOD 5015.2, Mobile

5. New in Release 3.2
●Share Extranet Collaboration
●Email Client Access
●Email Archiving
●Records Management Infrastructure
●CMIS
●WCM Authoring and Deployment
●Mobile

6. Alfresco Share Extranets
●Content Collaboration
outside the enterprise or in
the cloud
●Scalability to tens of
thousands of users
●User, Group and Site
administration for extranet
●New types and aspects
support
●Easy AJAX-enabled forms
system
●Enhanced people profiles
for sharing, invites and
collaboration
●Favorites and Galleries
●Cloud-ready for EC2 and
other cloud services

7. Image Gallery
7

8. New Forms System
8

9. Peoples Favorite Sites
9

10. Dashboard
10

11. Moderated Sites
11

12. Group Access to Sites
12

13. Group Admin
13

14. User Admin
14

15. Aspect Support
15

16. Type Support
16

17. Really Simple Content Management
17
CIFS/WebDAV
Shared Drive
IMAP
Email
Zero Footprint
Drag and Drop
Native UI

18. New IMAP Integration
Open repo
inside of Mail
Drag and Drop
for Retention
Browse and
Access Content
Get Full
Metadata
(Template
Controlled)
Works with
most email
clients with No
Plug-ins!

19. Working with Email
Email Client Access
●For those who live in email
●Full access to repository services
without client software
●Implementation of the IMAP
standard protocol
●Supports access from Outlook and
other email clients
●Supports mobile access from
Blackberry, iPhone and other
mobile devices
●Configurable presentation of
content and metadata
●Complementary to the new Mobile
share
Email Archiving
●Supports Records Mgmt and
Email-based contribution of
content
●Based upon IMAP standards
implementation
●Drag and Drop classification
●Rule-based filing
●Server-based organization and
metadata extraction
●Configurable attachment handling
●Independent of email client and no
software download

20. Really Simple Records Management
20
Shared Drive
UI
Email
UI
Web 2.0 RM
UI
Documents
Records

21. Open Source Records Management
●Based upon Share and
SURF
●New metadata
management
●New YUI-based Forms
System
●New Life Cycle
Management
●Import / Export Facility for
RM
●CMIS-based Query Access
●Email Capture
●Auditing
●Industrial-strength Workflow
Supporting Compliance,
Regulation and Retention

22. Record Visualization
22
Browse in-line
without
Application
Full Metadata
and Record
Status
Take Common
Records
Actions
Records are
URL-
addressable

23. Forms, Metadata & Life Cycle
23
New Forms
System
All URL-
addressable
New
Metadata
Types
Full RM Life
Cycle Data

24. DoD 5015.2 Scheduled for Sep 2009
24
Based on Share
Record
Disposition &
Holds
All the
Advantages of
Share
New Forms
System for
Share

25. Coming Soon (in August)
New Records
Site
Web 2.0-style
Query Tools
New
Reporting
Tools

26. Simplifying and Economizing
Records Management
●100% Open Source Stack
●Shared Drive and SharePoint Protocol ease of use
●Native IMAP implementation for simple email integration
●Easy data modeling for special data requirements
●Rules processing for auto-filing, metadata collection and rendition
generation
●First CMIS-enabled records mgmt solution for federated access
●Activities tracking for easy monitoring and mobile access
●One-tenth or less the cost of traditional solutions

27. CMIS Content Application
  
CMIS Interoperability

28. Core Use Cases
●Collaborative Content Creation
●A set of users wish to work collaboratively to create one or more documents or
web pages.
●Need: Authentication, Security, Versioning
●Portals
●Aggregated interface to viewing content from multiple sources.
●Need: Query
●Mash-ups
●Composite applications that integrates data/functionality from one or more
sources.
●Need: Query, RESTful Access (call via URL)
●Search
●Support for “unified indexing” search engines
●Need: Change logs, ACL discovery

29. CMIS
First implementation
Most complete implementation
REST and Web Services
Query
Full-text
Complete server implementation for
current v0.61 spec
Open source test suite of 100 tests
Development platform of choice
– open source
Integrations to Drupal, Joomla,
Confluence
Active participation on OASIS
committee
Two committers in Apache
Chemistry
Joomla Integration
Confluence Integration

30. CMIS Query Language
●Syntax - SQL-92 Subset + Extensions for
●Multi-Valued Property
●Full Text Search
●Folder Membership
●Semantics - SQL-92 + Extensions + Relational View mapping
●Relational View to CMIS data Model
●Table, Row, Column to
●Object Type, Type Inheritance, Objcet Property, Versioning
●ANY
●Ability to query multi-valued properties common in properties such as keywords
●IN_FOLDER() and IN_TREE()
●Ability to find documents and recursively descend a folder hierarchy
●CONTAINS() and SCORE()
●Ability to search text inside the content and relevance ranking of results

31. CMIS Query Language
●SELECT Name, ObjectId
●FROM DOCUMENT
●OR
●SELECT Name, ObjectId
●FROM DOCUMENT
●WHERE Name="doclib.png"
●OR
●SELECT ObjectId, SCORE() AS Relevance, Destination, DepartureDates
●FROM TravelBrochure
●WHERE CONTAINS( ‘CARIBBEAN CENTRAL AMERICA CRUISE TOUR’ )
●AND ‘2010-1-1’ < ANY DepartureDates
●ORDER BY Relevance DESC

32. www.cmisdev.org

33. Integrated Enterprise
Web Content Platform
Documents
Records
Web Content
Contribution
Approval
Publication
Production Web Site
Live Test /
QA Web Sites
Published
(External)
Pluggable Delivery
Channels
Common Services
Common Repository
Clustered
Authoring &
Deployment
Parallel
Deployment
Change Set
Driven
New
New Clustering
Options New
New Live
Preview
Improved
Rendering

34. New in Web Content Management
•New Web Clustering Architecture for Authoring and Deployment
•Benchmarked for Reliability and Scaling
•Parallel Deployment Engine
•Multi-threaded processing for high performance update of web sites
•Instant Preview against Test Server
•View in changes, including code, in context
•Pluggable Deployment Architecture to multiple delivery
environments
•Deploy to file systems, other Alfresco servers or external delivery channels
•Improved Rendering and Transform of Web Content
•Native Support for Local Includes, XSL, Freemarker, Web Scripts and more…

35. Going Mobile
●From Webapp to
Components
●Mobile Form Factor
●Documents
●View
●Review
●Create
●Search
●Collaboration
●Invite
●Share
●People

36. RoadMap
July 3.2
Alfresco Community Edition
Alfresco Enterprise Edition
Mid July 3.2 B1Mid Aug 3.2 B2
Sept 3.2 + RM
Sept 3.2Nov 3.2 + RM

37. Download
www.alfresco.com/32

38. New Installer

39. Questions
39

40. Community Edition V3.2
Monday, August 17, 2009

41. 17/07/08
iPhone Visuals
My Alfresco Recently Modified

42. 17/07/08
iPhone Visuals
Document Preview Activity Feed

43. http://drupal.aiim.alfrescodemo.com/

44. http://joomla.aiim.alfrescodemo.com/

45. © Copyright 2007 by EMC, IBM, and
Microsoft. All rights reserved.
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CMIS Query Language
Syntax
SQL-92 subset + Extensions for
•Multi-valued property
•Fulltext search
•Folder membership
Object Type, Type Inheritance,
Object, Property, Content Stream,
Versioning
Table (Object Type, Type Inheritance)
Row (Object)
Column (Property)
Relational View
CMIS Data Model
Semantics
SQL-92 + Extensions
+ Relational View mapping