Product News & Updates
Activiti Business Process Management Initiative
The Activiti Business Process Management Suite is an open source Apache licensed BPM engine with native support for BPMN 2.0. Tom Baeyens, project founder of JBPM and BPM expert, has joined Alfresco along with his fellow architect Joram Barrez to oversee the effort. Read more in John Newton's blog.
Featured Contributions
CampusDocs, an Alfresco partner, has contributed two new projects, PDF Form Generator and Bulk Property Update Tool to the Alfresco forge. The PDF Form Generator module transcribes text data files onto a PDF template to create populated PDF forms. The module currently works with properties files only but additional formats such as csv, xml and tab delimited will soon be supported. The Bulk Property Update Tool uses properties files to update object properties in a designated Alfresco repository. The tool can be configured to identify unique objects based on a combination of properties/indexes and update specified properties.
Join us on May 28th for Tech Talk Live to see a live demo of both of these projects.
WeWebU, another Alfresco partner, has recently released OpenWorkdesk, a CMIS-based, open source ECM application with an intuitive Web 2.0 front end. Even users who do not have prior ECM system experience can use state-of-the-art ECM functionalities with minimal training. It can be used for all CMIS-based ECM systems such as Alfresco ECM. To learn more and to download the source see http://www.openworkdesk.org.
Alfresco App Now On Apple App Store!
Zia Consulting has developed a native iPhone and Android application that allows mobile access to an Alfresco document repository. This application runs against the most recent Alfresco releases; no additional software needs to be installed on the servers and no configuration of Alfresco is required. The app is available on the Apple iTunes Store and the Android Market. You can find out more information about the Apps and Zia Consulting at http://www.ziaconsulting.com.
Alfresco Books
Professional Alfresco: Practical Solutions for Enterprise Content Management It's here, the latest guide to Alfresco 3.2 written by the technical team who designed and developed Alfresco. You can order it now.
Alfresco Developer Guide by Jeff Potts of Optaros is a must read for anyone interested in gaining an understanding of how to create custom applications on the Alfresco platform. You can find a sample chapter in the Content Community.
Alfresco 3 Web Services by Ugo Cei and Piergiorgio Lucidi. This is the latest book on Alfresco covering applications using Web Services, WebScripts and CMIS. By the end of this book, you will be able to put together your knowledge about CMIS and the Apache Chemistry toolkit to develop a complete working application that uses Alfresco, via CMIS, as a back-end storage. Additionally this book also covers the Web Services security profiles— the best practices for Web Services to promote better interoperability.
Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation by Munwar Shariff, Vinita Choudhary, Amita Bhandari and Pallika Majumdar of CIGNEX, published by Packt publishers. This is the latest book on Alfresco covering Alfresco 3.1 features such as Alfresco Share, Multi-tenancy, SharePoint services and integrations with Facebook, iGoogle and Liferay.
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More Product Information
Product Roadmap - Updated roadmap with highlights of upcoming Community and Enterprise release plans through 2010. Please let us have your feedback.
Community Alfresco Plan of Record - Schedule of planned releases, plus historical record of past Alfresco releases.
Enterprise Alfresco Plan of Record - Schedule of planned Enterprise releases, plus historical record of past Alfresco releases.
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