Congratulations to JavaRanch Alfresco3 ECM Book Winners

This week, all the authors of the book (Munwar Shariff, Vinita Choudhary, Amita Bhandari, and Pallika Majumdar) were on JavaRanch to promote the book "Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management".

This promotion was held in the EJB and other JEE Technologies forum which can be found here: http://www.coderanch.com/forums/f-11/EJB-Other-Java-EE-Technologies
The winners who received a free copy of the book are:
Jessica Sant (21685)
Paras Jain (93558)
Navin Porwal (213234)
Alaa Nassef (164104)

Congratulations to the winners.
More details can be found at:http://www.coderanch.com/t/459352/EJB-Other-Java-EE-Technologies/java/Winners-Alfresco-Enterprise-Content-Management
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A New Book on Alfresco 3 Share is released

Packt and CIGNEX are pleased to announce a new book that guides readers to customize, use, and administer websites using the Alfresco CMS platform. Written by a team of four Content Management experts from CIGNEX, Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation gives users a clear understanding about how to integrate external applications such as Liferay Portal, Adobe Flex, iPhone, iGoogle, and Facebook to meet their Content Management needs.

Alfresco is one of the most popular Java-based Content Management System. Alfresco 3 is its upgraded version which includes Alfresco Surf, a new N-Tier Architecture, which delivers scalability and accommodates more users on existing hardware resources. Alfresco 3 offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) by providing an Open Source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, and Interwoven.

This book guides users through creating smart, collaborative content repositories and shows how to use Alfresco 3 to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes. The book explains how administrators can set up Alfresco 3 for multiple business units as a single-instance multi-tenant environment.

Readers will learn to work and co-ordinate with membership accounts, including LDAP integration and single sign-on. Using Alfresco 3, readers will be able to automate version tracking and share network folders. They will also be able to manage business documents with version control, library services, content organization, and advanced search. Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help developers to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.

This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users, and business owners who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. It assumes a degree of technical confidence and does not require specialist system administration or developer skills to get a basic system up and running. This book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: book website.

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It's time to UPDATE the Alfresco ECM Book

For the past 25 months (since the first version of this book is released), the open source content management software has entered into mainstream business.

The adoption of Alfresco has grown exponentially with over 1.5 million downloads of the software, with over 50,000 live sites and with over 150 applications in Alfresco Forge to download.

The book was written for the version 1.4 and since then the software is upgraded many times. The Alfresco product is matured and improved with lots of new and exciting features. The current version 3.0.1 and the upcoming version 3.1 offer new concepts which are very significant to the end users.

I think it is a high time to upgrade this book.

We (at CIGNEX) implemented Alfresco at many large enterprises such as Activision, Sesame Street, Medco, Electronic Arts and Cross Country Healthcare. Some of these Alfresco deployments serve over 10 TB of data to millions of users in a clustered and high-availability environment. We have integrated many 3rd party applications with Alfresco.

Documenting our experience & expertise on Alfresco implementations will be a great value addition to the book.

We will provide updates about the upcoming book...VERY SOON.

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Alfresco WCM article on Packt website

A nice article about Alfresco's WCM features is at:
http://www.packtpub.com/article/alfresco-web-content-management-2-0-part1

Alfresco 2.1 (the new release) includes many enhancements to Web Content Management module.
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Alfresco Book Review by EMC Documentum expert

Pawan Kumar, Principal @ doQuent, and the author of "Documentum Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide" has done a review of Alfresco Book.

Summary of the Review:

This book is definitely a must-have for anyone implementing a solution using Alfresco. It is a handy reference for performing various tasks on the Alfresco platform. If you are new to content management in general then you may need additional resources to make effective use of the information available in this book.

I liked the changes he had suggested in his review. I will follow them in the next update.

Read the complete review at:
http://doquent.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/book-review-alfresco-by-munwar-shariff/

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Alfresco Case Study - Presto

Presto's unique digital delivery system is a combination of Presto Service and the HP Printing Mailbox. It allows users to receive email, photos, and newsletters from a variety of well-known publishers without the need for a computer or an Internet connection.

CIGNEX Created a Flexible, Easy-to-Use Content Management System to power newsletters for Presto's printing mailbox service. The Presto CMS is developed on top of Alfresco, an Open Source enterprise content management platform. The architecture supports high availability, high performance, and replication support across multiple servers.

Read the case study at http://www.cignex.com/site/resources/library/case_studies

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Learn, Customize and Use Alfresco ECM in 60 minutes

It’s happening! The Open Source Content Management System (OSCMS) Summit is being sponsored by Yahoo! The OSCMS summit takes place on March 22nd and 23rd in Yahoo Campus in Sunnyvale, California.

As an Author of the book Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation, I am presenting a 60 minute packed session covering the complete cycle of planning, implementing and customizing your ECM installation. My colleague at CIGNEX, Harish Ramachandran is helping me out with the live Demo.

Our presentation is on this Thursday (March 22nd, 2007) from 1:45pm to 2:45pm.

Alfresco offers true Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging. Unlike most other open source CMS which offer only the web content management, Alfresco provides a wide range of solutions to Enterprise customers with an impressive roadmap.

The topics which are going to be covered are:

• Working with users and membership accounts
• Using Alfresco as a Smart document repository; working with automatic version tracking and control, and accessing the repository from the Web, shared network folders, or CIFS
• Making content easy to find using search, content categorization, and metadata
• Automating document management tasks with business rules and complete workflows
• Working together using Alfresco’s collaboration and syndication features to create effective working groups
• Customizing the user interface, creating your own dashboard layouts; presenting content in custom ways relevant to your business
• Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing

With real-life examples from CIGNEX project implementations.
If you are attending the conference, hope to see you in the conference.

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