Alfresco Content Management Community Edition

When I worked Pre-Sales here at Alfresco I had, on occasion, the chance to talk about integrating Alfresco with a GIS (Geographic Information System). I don’t have a lot of experience with these types of systems (actually none) but I always believed that integration was possible. (It falls into one of those categories where we [...] Read More

This week Documentum changed its name to the “Information Intelligence Group”. Mark Lewis, president of the newly named Information Intelligence Group was quoted in Fierce Content Management saying ” he can’t worry about naysayers” “He has to do ... [More] what’s best for the company and he believes if he maintained the status quo, his company could have become [...] Read More [Less]

For a recent customer engagement I was asked to write a web script which they’ve agreed to let me share it. The script was written to give them: A list of content that had been modified from a point in time until “now” (The time of execution). Specify a specific space or recurse the child spaces for the named [...] Read More

Alfresco has launched a new open source project, Activiti Business Process Management Suite along with the Spring Source division of VMware, Signavio and Camunda. We are also very pleased that Tom Baeyens, project founder of JBPM and BPM expert, has ... [More] joined Alfresco along with his fellow architect Joram Barrez. They bring a wealth of business process experience to a clean slate to build a next generation BPM system that will be licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. This combination can have profound implications for both the business process and content management spaces. Read More [Less]

Alfresco has launched a new open source project, Activiti Business Process Management Suite along with the Spring Source division of VMware, Signavio and Camunda. We are also very pleased that Tom Baeyens, project founder of JBPM and BPM expert, has ... [More] joined Alfresco along with his fellow architect Joram Barrez. They bring a wealth of business process experience to a clean slate to build a next generation BPM system that will be licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. This combination can have profound implications for both the business process and content management spaces. Read More [Less]

A relatively unknown capability of CMIS 1.0 is Renditions. In the content management world, the term ‘renditions’ typically means a facility to generate and retrieve alternative representations of content or a document. CMIS formalizes only the ... [More] retrieval of such alternative representations. Although this may seem limiting, it does standardize common use cases such as the [...] Read More [Less]

While Alfresco WCM contains a sophisticated deployment engine, the options for initiating deployment are rather more limited, comprising the manual “Deploy Snapshot” function in the Explorer UI, and the automatic “Auto Deploy” function that can be ... [More] configured in the Web Project Settings and then requested by an author at submission time. While these options are useful, [...] Read More [Less]

One of the new features in Alfresco 3.3 is a new interface for managing content rules in Alfresco Share.  Not only is this an improved user experience as compared to the content rules wizard in the Alfresco Explorer interface, but it also includes new functionality as well, which I’ll describe here.  But first, let’s start [...] Read More

Earlier today, Mary McRae of OASIS, announced that Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) v1.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard. “Congratulations to the OASIS CMIS TC, and the community of implementers, developers and users who ... [More] have brought the work successfully to culmination.” As previously reported, Alfresco 3.3 implements the CMIS v1.0 standard. Read More [Less]

I’ve been working on CMIS at Alfresco for a very long time. After more than two years of specification definition, product development and preview releases, I can finally say “go ahead, build your applications on Alfresco CMIS, it’s ready for use”. A ... [More] few weeks ago, we released Alfresco 3.3 Community which introduced CMIS 1.0 among many other [...] Read More [Less]