‘ECM’ posts

Drupal communities at AIIM

Posted by John Eckman on 11 Oct 2010

Photo by galawebdesign – http://www.flickr.com/photos/galawebdesign/2315810343/in/pool-644862@N21/ It wasn’t so long ago that Drupalcon was in the upstairs rooms at the BCEC while AIIM met downstairs in the cavernous expo hall. The contrast between the suits and huge corporate sponsors at AIIM and the open source designer/developer culture of Drupalcon was pretty palpable that year, and the [...]

Kaltura-Alfresco Integration Screencast

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Oct 2009

Here’s yet another great demo from my colleague Jeff Potts. This time it’s an integration of Alfresco with Kaltura, the open source video management, mashup, browser-based editing, and viewing platform. This would let you use Alfresco workflow with video assets, and then publish them to Kaltura for distribution outside the organization. (We’re using a Kaltura | View post »

Multiple Communities, Multiple Platforms?

Posted by John Eckman on 13 Apr 2009

Found this interesting comment in a blog post by Tony Byrne from CMS Watch on the

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 »

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 »

Open Source Content Management Panel at Gilbane Boston

Posted by John Eckman on 25 Nov 2008

Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel on Open Source Content Management at the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference – “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” The panel is scheduled for Thursday, December 4th, from 3:30-5:00pm. The panelists will be: Nate Aune of Jazkarta (Plone / Zope / Python) Elie Auvray of Jahia Michael Wechner | View post »

Acquia Drupal officially launches

Posted by Optaros on 03 Oct 2008

Do you love Drupal but wish you could get a “certified” version and commercial support? Now you can. Acquia, the commercial company recently formed by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson, officially launched Acquia Drupal this week (press release). Acquia Drupal is a commercially-supported distribution of Drupal. It includes Drupal Core plus a handful | View post »

SUN T2000/T5000 and Alfresco – not a good combination

Posted by Optaros on 01 Oct 2008

A recent analysis reports that several Alfresco installations have had performance issues using SUN T2000 infrastructure environment. The conclusion and recommendation of this analysis is to use UltraSPARC Vx, Intel or AMD processors infrastructure instead. T2000 and T5000 are from the same family. The T2000 has been designed for being highly performant in the treatment | View post »

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Jeff talks about the unique position of Acquia in relation to Drupal as an “organic open source” project: | View post »