The document provides an overview of Alfresco in 2011. It summarizes Alfresco's focus on developing a consumer-like user experience for enterprise content management, adding social features like following users and content popularity ratings, and improving scalability and performance. It also outlines Alfresco's strategy to provide their content management platform in both public and private cloud options and develop mobile and tablet apps and integration.
4. It all started in a little Eastern
European country
You are instructed to destroy
the Western economies by
doing absolutely nothing!
Tell them you lost
the budget in
SharePoint!
5. While Western leaders argued…
You think your
fancy Mr Bond
can save the
world again!?!
Bah!!!
6. Masterminds were at work…
My evil plan is working!
All this indecision leads
them to using
SharePoint!!!
7. Enter Bond…
Free the funds!
M! What do Free the data!
you want me And crush that pointy,
to do?! baldy head!!!
19. A Year of Hard Work and Accomplishment
Productive Consumer-like More Social
“We are excited to join forces with Alfresco to
drive the benefits of Social Business Software to
our customers. Alfresco provides a proven
enterprise content management system.!Jive
taps into the Alfresco system to ‘socialize’ the
content, facilitate collaboration, and make it
available in the activity stream. Access and
interaction with Alfresco content becomes
seamless in Jive.!!This makes content
management more searchable, ratable, likable,
Rich Media Connected to Super-scale
commentable, and most importantly, more
social.”
favorite apps - Matt Tucker, Co-Founder and CTO of Jive
20. New User Experience
New UI and HTML5 enhancements give a consumer-like
experience to enterprise content management.
21. Social Features in Alfresco 4
• Follow influential users
• Status updates – “what are you working on”
• “Like” content & sort/search on popularity
• Proactive & customized notifications
• New activity feed & dashlets
• Integration to Jive
22. Social Publishing in Alfresco 4
• Content + Status Updates
• Publish to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn YouTube right
from Alfresco
o Extendable to other channels (i.e. Slideshare)
• Social becomes part of content workflow
• Track publishing history
23. Cloud-Scale Performance
Improvements
Alfresco 4 is the culmination of
everything we have learned by scaling
to tens-of-thousands of users and
hundreds of millions of content items.
• Apache Solr
• Clustered protocols and CIFS
• Elastic Transformations
• Streamline transactions
24. Scalability, Performance, Reliability
Share Share • Linearly scale with
Share Share
Server UI Scale-out Server more
Server nodes with 3x
Server
more nodes
• Ingestion and Writes
Repo Repo Repo
Simpler XActs Server
2x faster Server
Server
Repo
Server Clustered Protocols • At least 25% less load
Shared Index
on repo from
Index Solr Solr Solr
transform and
Engine Permissions indexing
Transform Elastic Transform • Big
Transformqueries much
Transform
Engine Transformation Server faster
Server Server
• Scale at least 300m
Database Query Paging Database Database 1B benchmark in
with Database
Server Server 1H2012 Server
Server
25. Best of Breed BPM Social Workflow
• Designed by Tom
Baeyens
• BPMN 2.0
• New user/social-centric
Task Model
• Apache-licensed
• Complete suite - Engine,
Modeller, Console and
User Tools
• Integrate with social
feeds and discussion
• Cloud-ready – Shared
Nothing, NoSQL data
26. Alfresco Web Content Foundation
Java Portal PHP Web Java WEM Custom App
Web Quick
Start Templates
Use case: Use case: Use case: Use case:
web-based Public website or Web Experience Home-grown
portal community site Mgmt on Java web app
Full Featured
JSR-168 CMIS Integration RESTful APIs
Alfresco Platform
27. Web Content Services –
Concentrating on Content
Multiple Web Sites, Multiple Devices Web Audience
Controlled Public Website
Intranet Release
• Metadata Search • Tagging
and • Thumbnails • Comments
Alfresco Content App Server Deploy • Previews • Structure
• User Gen. Content • Menu
SharePoint Shared Drive
Emulation Emulation
Office to Web
Bus. Workflow
Framework REST-
Web Quick
based
Renditions Start Templates
Collaboration Transfer
Transformation
Office to Web Framework
Web Content Creation Tools Web Dev Tools
Alfresco Microsoft Google Web Spring JavaScript
Share Office Docs Editor Tools / Roo FreeMarker
Marketing Web Team Development
28. Replication – Distributed Web
Deployment
Intelligent movement of content and metadata
Intranet Extranet Cloud
HTML HTML
HTML
Master Local Content Copy Local Content Copy Local Content
On Premise Private Cloud Public Cloud
Multi-Tenant
28
29. Turns your iPad or
iPhone into a corporate
content workhorse
In partnership with
46. Social Business Systems
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2 secs ago
competitor updates,
technical solutions, etc.
• Tools (mostly content):
o 58% concurrent editing or wiki
o 55% staff-facing blogs
o 54% departmental forums or
newsgroups
o 42% bulletin boards
o 28% activity streams
AIIM Survey conducted February 2011
47. Mobile Support Next time, an iPhone
or I kill you!!!
• 92% of Fortune 1000 are
testing or deploying iPads
–Tim Cook, Apple 10/4
• 22% providing mobile
browser access to
information portals
• 68% provide no browser
or mobile access
• Slow migration a problem
for 33% of largest orgs.
AIIM Survey conducted February 2011
48. Cloud
• Gartner: Cloud is
highest CIO priority
• 64% would consider
using a private cloud for
ECM
• 30% said public cloud
is possible in future
• 6% currently using
internal corporate cloud
• Set to double, but
outsourced corporate set
to treble (particularly
smaller orgs.)
AIIM Survey conducted February 2011
50. Well, it’s not Berlusconi…
You don’t think he is
planning is come
back do you?!!
51. Our opportunity
Alfresco has the opportunity to enable a new
era of business productivity in a tablet world...
o A powerful content platform that serves as a content-hub
for the enterprise
o A set of cloud services integrations that enables “cloud-
connected-content”
o A focus on driving the new tablet content experience –
with apps open standards
o Built on a foundation of transparency, openness
innovation
53. Alfresco Cloud
Our initial cloud offering positioned for:
o B2B Collaboration, Mobile, SharePoint Alternative
All the power of real Content Management
• Life Cycle, Rules, Metadata, Search
Hosted on Amazon in EU, US
54. Private / Public Option
Connection
Public Cloud Private Cloud
(On-Premise)
Allow Enterprises to control what content they open up to the
Cloud, where the content is located and keep an on-premise
backup of content from their cloud applications
55. Alfresco’s Mobile Strategy
• The right content to the right person on the right device
• Devices controlled by users, content access controlled by
company
• Apps controlled by users and/or company, depending on
security needs
PLATFORM OPEN STANDARDS
A robust, secure APPS To provide app choice –
content Alfresco apps
WebDAV CMIS
for easy
management
access to
platform
+ content
collaboration
+
Alfresco Enterprise
features;
Alfresco Team
open source
apps for
customization
56. Mobile and Tablet Platform and
Applications
• Optimized for Tablet
• Content and Workflow-
oriented apps
o Federated Search
o Federated Workflow and
Action
o Federated Browsing
o Viewing, Commenting and
Annotation
o Some Editing
• Integrated with key
mobile apps
• Open HTML5 Platform
for Content
Applications
57. Alfresco Focus: Process as a Service
Foundation for new B2B Cloud Apps
Mobile New
Content Consumer
Process Apps Apps
Alfresco Activiti Focus The Process Store
Cloud Workflow Engine (Free or Purchase)
Project
DropBox ECM
Alfresco “Pangu”
Enterprise
58. Integrate into the Cloud Ecosystem
Empower Organizations to keep control of their
content in a Cloud World without forcing their users to
change the way they work
59. Cloud-Connected Architecture
Tablet Mobile Web
Mobile-ready Applications
Activity
Tasks Search Browse
Feed Alfresco
Ecosystem
Alfresco Public Platform
Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco
Cloud Focus Connect
Alfresco Alfresco
Directory Commerce Private
Cloud
Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS) Data
Store Alfresco
Alfresco Community
Enterprise
62. For the Next 12 Months
• Cloud in November – Team in the Cloud
• Mobile applications, especially Tablets/iPad
• Integration with Cloud Platform and Social
Ecosystem
• Replication and Synchronization
• Simple API and Citizen Developer Platform
ASAP
• Cloud-connected Workflow-oriented Content
Application
63. Safe for another 12 months…
I am sure that we
Well, that’s another have no more
crisis solved! problems for a
while!!!
64. The Future
• Alfresco is a first and foremost a content management
company
• Open Source is critical for building trust and removing
lock-in
• Tablet and Mobile represent a huge new opportunity
• Cloud enables new use cases and frees the
organization
• Private and Public option
• Enable the Citizen Developer to support the new
Enterprise
• With our customers, our partners and our community
we will invent the future