‘Alfresco’ posts
Alfresco Drupal CMIS Integration Available
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 23 Feb 2009
Optaros, in conjunction with Acquia and Alfresco, has made available a set of Drupal modules that integrates the popular community platform, Drupal, with the leading open source content management repository, Alfresco. We’ve released the integration as two modules. The first, simply called CMIS API, is a module that knows how to make RESTful CMIS calls | View post »
Enterprise Collaboration: Alfresco Share Screencast, Part Two
Posted by John Eckman on 19 Feb 2009
In this screencast (see Part One here) Jeff Potts walks through some additional functionality in Alfresco Share, including: How new share “sites” (collaboration spaces or communities) get created How sites can be customized, including adding and removing dashlets from sites As promised, Jeff also shows us some custom components which demonstrate the types of custom | View post »
Enterprise Collaboration: Alfresco Share screencast, Part One
Posted by John Eckman on 12 Feb 2009
One of the joys of working at Optaros is the opportunity to work with colleagues like Jeff Potts, who you may know from his blog (ECM Architect) or as the author of Packt Publishing’s Alfresco Developer Guide. I asked Jeff to add his expertise to the Labs blog by way of a demonstration of Alfresco | View post »
Alfresco Surf 3.0 Code Camp: Do-It-Yourself
Posted by Optaros on 05 Feb 2009
Did you miss the Alfresco Surf Code Camps? I’ve got you covered. With Alfresco’s blessing (they wrote most of the content, after all) I’ve uploaded the Optaros Alfresco 3.0 Surf Code Camp instructor presentations and class labs to slideshare.net. You might start by looking at the agenda to get an idea of the order you | View post »
Open Source Solution by Optaros Makes the Grade for AQA
Posted by Noreen Vincent on 04 Feb 2009
The UK Optaros open source consulting team jointly worked with AQA to determine the technical architecture and implementation roadmap for the Examiner Extranet. Our lead architect on the project, Maurice McBride summed up the decision to select Alfresco as “ideal” as it fit soundly into the open source technical stack determined which permitted AQA users | View post »
Is Alfresco ECM 96% cheaper than legacy ECM vendors?
Posted by Optaros on 09 Jan 2009
If you are evaluating ECM solutions, particularly if you are interested in cost, you need to take a look at Alfresco’s TCO Whitepaper. In it, Alfresco uses licensing numbers they snagged from the United States government to compare the first year costs of their solution with EMC/Documentum, OpenText, and Sharepoint. When the whitepaper came to | View post »
Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008
2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the | View post »
Alfresco 3.0 Enterprise now available
Posted by Optaros on 31 Oct 2008
Open source CMS Alfresco has made its Enterprise 3.0 release available today. This is a significant release. It includes the new web application development framework, Surf, a new client for team collaboration called Share, support for multi-tenancy (separating the repository into multiple logical repositories for multiple “tenants”), and a draft CMIS implementation. I haven’t confirmed | View post »
Alfresco Developer Guide released
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 29 Oct 2008
I can finally answer the question, “When is the book coming out?”. The answer: Today. The Alfresco Developer Guide is now available for immediate shipping from Packt‘s web site (also, download a free Bonus chapter of the Alfresco Developer Guide). There are a lot of people who made this thing happen including an awesome team | View post »
Alfresco Surf 3.0 Code Camp: Catch a wave in NYC
Posted by Optaros on 28 Oct 2008
Optaros and Alfresco are co-hosting a Surf 3.0 Code Camp in New York City on November 10th. The purpose of the camp is to get attendees up-and-running with Alfresco’s new web application development framework, Surf. The camp will run all day and into the evening. I’ll be leading the camp by taking you through some | View post »




