Alfresco Facebook Platform
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Employees are increasingly communicating on social networking platforms – outside the control of the corporate IT department. Corporations must choose either to ban social networking software use or to harness the potential to communicate more effectively with their community of customers, partners and employees.
A recent McKinsey survey reported that 37 percent of large enterprise IT respondents are currently funding social networking projects.
From an enterprise perspective, organizations require the ability to publish to a Facebook audience as effectively as to a Web site audience. From an employee perspective, social networking provides a ready-made knowledge-management platform for their workers, which will increase adoption rates to the levels that knowledge management was always meant to achieve.
In response to customer demand, the Alfresco Facebook Platform has been designed to ECM enable social computing tools. The platform allows content-oriented Facebook applications to easily be developed using the content services provided by Alfresco's core platform.
The Alfresco Facebook Platform enables enterprise content to be uploaded and shared with customers and employees in a controlled, secure and audited way. New platform functionality includes:
- Application registration
- Facebook authorization and single sign-on
- FBML support
- Facebook model support including:
- Friends
- Application Friends
- Users
- Mini Feed
- News Feed
The Alfresco integration with Facebook provides a platform for employees to access and utilize organizational information effectively with tools they know and like.
The Alfresco Facebook Platform was developed using the Alfresco Web Script Framework which has been extended to support Facebook capabilities. No Java, compilation or other advanced development activities are required; just scripting.
An example of an application developed using this solution is the Alfresco Documents for Facebook, which provides a secure environment for users to:
- Upload documents
- View My Documents, All Documents or Recently Added Documents
- View documents from colleagues and friends through the Facebook news feed
