Features
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Features that users like
Shared drive interface
- Web content authors can access and contribute content via a shared drive interface
- Use your tool of choice for authoring and viewing with no additional installation or training
- Widespread user adoption through the simplicity of the shared drive
Sandboxing, staging and virtualization
- Simply preview in-context changes to any web page or web application
- Reduce the risk of error with simple a virtualization of changes against a live site
- Publish your complete change set to the staging area and virtualize the staged area
Multilingual management
- Multilingual translation workflow support
Features that developers like
Alfresco Surf platform
- NEW! Lightweight web application platform that allows developers to quickly build their presentation layer using web scripts – no server restarts!
- NEW! Reusable library of presentation elements including pages, templates, components, themes, chrome, forms and navigation.
- NEW! Out-of-the-box Site Dispatcher that is preconfigured to work seamlessly with the Alfresco repository, enabling the presentation of Alfresco content and authentication against Alfresco users.
- NEW! A rich configuration environment enables Surf components to “talk” to multiple back-ends including non-Alfresco repositories via JSON, XML, ATOM and CMIS.
- NEW! Enables developers to take full advantage of rich browser presentation libraries including Yahoo! UI and Adobe Flex.
- NEW! Fully compatible with Alfresco WCM sandboxes, virtualization and deployment.
Shared drive interface
- Use your tool of choice, such as Dreamweaver, for web interface development with no additional installation or training
- Existing web applications can be dragged and dropped into the repository
REST architecture
- Use a URL interface to rapidly and simply mashup Alfresco gadgets, and other web applications, across multiple technologies
Preview and Test web applications
- The ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, JSF, Tiles, Struts, Groovy and .NET
Web site templating and branching
- Rapid creation of new sites from existing templates and the ability to baseline major site updates by branching existing site
Reuse of assets
- Simple updating and sharing of content across web projects
Integrated code and content management
- Single repository for code and content
Integration with enterprise portals
- Standards-based JSR-168 and REST-based integration
XML authoring and multi-channel publishing
- Form authoring using industry-standard XML schemas
- Automatic user interface rendering based on the XForms standard
- Automatic creation of multiple formats for multiple channels
Features that administrators like
Configuration for deployment on web farms
- Advanced deployment rules for scalable, three-tier web application architectures with partitioned, replicated deployment
J2EE architecture
- Highly scalable, clustered architecture using commodity software and hardware
Versioning and rollback of whole sites
- Simply rollout a new site with automatic site versioning
- Legal compliance: simply and immediately rollback to the exact state of a website at any point in time
- Disaster recovery: simply rollback to the last know stable version of the site
Content lifecycle management
- Controlled and audited content development through creation, review, approval, timed launch, expiration, retention and archiving
Change set management
- Transactionally publish a set of changes to one or more web sites
Security
- Security and user management with users, groups and roles
- Single sign-on through NTLM or LDAP
Integrated enterprise content management
- Integrated transformation services: Office to ODF/PDF, PowerPoint to Flash
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