Features that users like |
Personalized Dashboard
- Simply configure a custom view of what’s most important to you across your projects. Track internal and external feeds in one place.
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Shared Site Dashboard
- View a project site profile, activities, virtual team members, calendar and useful links in one place.
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SharePoint Protocol Support
- The first ECM to offer Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support.
- No additional client installation required
- Lower cost and allows choice of hardware, database, operating system, application server and portal products.
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Site Activity Feed
- Simply stay on top of what is new or changing in a project site, track the “who, what, when and where” activities on content that is added or edited, comments, new team members and critical calendar dates.
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Search for People and Experts
- Create personal profiles
- Simply find experts or people in similar roles to connect to and share knowledge
- Create a virtual team of experts, colleagues and ex-colleagues inside and outside of the enterprise.
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Reuse Best Practice
- Retain and share knowledge more effectively
- Simply find similar projects and reuse best practice, content and project structures
- Find experts who worked on similar projects
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Search across all Sites
- Securely find useful content as simply as searching Google across all sites, wikis and blogs
- Search on content and rich meta-data via document properties or tags
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Create Content in your editor of choice
- Use the authoring tools you are familiar with – Office, blogs or wikis.
- Save version, share and audit content
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Publish to defacto Blogs and Wikis
- Create and review content in the team blog and publish to WordPress and TypePad
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Discuss
- Create discussions on sites, documents or topics
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Content Tagging
- Tag content and share access to these tags
- Search and filter on social tags
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Site Calendar
- Personal calendar and virtual team calendar rollup with iCal integration
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Share Content in a Document Library
- Share access to content via thumbnails
- View content even without the editing software with a Flash document viewer
- Simply check-in/out a document to prevent others from writing to it at the same time
- Simple version control
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Features that developers like |
Lightweight Web Scripts
- Rapidly develop lightweight, Web Script components using JavaScript and Freemarker
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REST Architecture
- Rapidly and simply mashup Alfresco applications and other web gadgets through a URL
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CMIS Support
- A draft implementation of the proposed Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification is included to provide a platform for developing and testing new applications. The proposed CMIS standard is currently undergoing OASIS committee stage review is backed by all of the leading ECM vendors.
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Use Existing Skills
- Utilize internal developers without the need to recruit .NET and C# developers
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Features that administrators like |
J2EE Architecture
- Highly scalable, clustered architecture using commodity software and hardware
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Zero Footprint Client
- No client installation is required for mass rollout internally or to a Community
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Security
- Security and user management with users, groups and roles
- Document level security
- Single Sign-On through NTLM or LDAP
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Integrated workflow and content lifecycle management
- jBPM integration with task manager via a dashboard
- Controlled and audited content development through creation, review, approval and distribution
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Flexible N-Tier deployment
- Support more users on less hardware with less cost and simple partitioning of software – database, repository, web application services, client access
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