Exploring the discipline of Enterprise Content Management
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Our last release of Alfresco Community Edition was at the end of March, so I should update you on our progress towards the next release. You have probably seen our announcements about releasing a number of modules to Enterprise Edition, but we have also been busy on enhancements to Alfresco Community Edition. Our plans ...
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Alfresco 5.0.c was released last December. The biggest complaint with Alfresco 5.0.c was our unfortunate (and accidental) removal of the administration consoles for workflows, models, and tenants (tracked as ALF-21133). This prevented a lot of installations from upgrading from 4.2. It took us longer than we expected, but Kevin ...
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This fall has been a hectic time as we juggled Summit and the preparations for the release of Alfresco One Enterprise Edition 5.0. In the middle of Summit, our team completed the scheduled 5.0 features and got Community Edition 5.0.b out the door in order to receive feedback.
Unfortunately we failed to communicate about some ...
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As we near the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 5.0, Community Edition has evolved a lot. Community Edition 5.0.a was an opportunity for the Engineering team to get feedback on the improvements in the 5.0 source tree. Though it was a solid release, there was still a lot of new development to complete on the ...
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At Alfresco, we often refer to "the Dropbox problem". It doesn't look like anyone has written a clear explanation of what that means, so I will do the honors.
Dropbox is a very popular service for cloud-based file storage and sharing, coupled with a simple way of keeping files synchronized across all of a user's ...
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This is my next article providing an introduction to Enterprise Content Management (ECM). This article introduces the most important standard for building content solutions: Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS). When a developer is given a task that involves content, it will save time and energy to leverage the CMIS standard when interacting with that ...
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In my last ECM post, I provided an introduction to the discipline of Enterprise Content Management. Many developers confuse Web Content Management (WCM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM). When they are told about a content repository, they think of the tool they use to build web sites instead of the tool they use ...
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In my role as a developer evangelist at Alfresco, I regularly speak with developers who have never heard of the tool and are not familiar with the concept of content management. This short post will provide enough of an introduction that you will know what capabilities these tools provide, and when to research more ...
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YCombinator’s Hacker News recently linked to an interesting post entitled “What every computer science major should know”.
I think it’s a pretty good list, but like others I have seen, it has a hole around the knowledge domain of Content Management, Content Modeling, and Information Architecture.
There are some core tools that every software engineer ...