1. Integrating Alfresco with Liferay Portal
for Document-Centric Use Cases
June 16th 2011
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2. Agenda
• Benefits of Enterprise Portals
• Benefits of ECMS as it relates to Portals
o Focus on Document Management
• Liferay & Alfresco
o Benefits
o Existing integration work
• Case Studies
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3. Rivet Logic Overview
• Award-winning professional services:
o Intranets, Collaboration and Community Platforms
o Enterprise and Web Content Management
o Next Generation Websites
• Using Leading Open Source Software
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4. Rivet Logic-Awards and Honors
Gold Partner Partner of the Year
East Coast Training Partner Overall Innovation Award Winner
Innovator of the Year
Innovation Award Winner
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5. Why consider deploying an
Enterprise Portal?
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6. Motivation
• Portals are enablers
• One solution serving very
different users
• Application aggregation
• Single Sign-On
• Social Networking
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7. Use Case 1 - Intranets
• What is an Intranet?
• Examples:
o General Employee Intranet
o HR Portal
o IT Portal
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8. Use Case 2 - Extranets
• What is an Extranet?
• Examples:
o Customer Portal
o Vendor Portal
o Supplier Portal
o Student Portal
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9. Why is an ECMS crucial for any
Enterprise Portal?
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10. Some Facts We All Know
• Enterprise content exists mostly in documents
• Documents are the most popular means of
sharing information
o MS Word Docs
o Spread Sheets
o Presentations
o Etc.
• Managing documents is not easy
• Enter Document Management Repositories
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11. Document Management
• Every enterprise portal has documents
• Document Management challenges:
o One source of truth
o Versioning
o Editing
o Document lifecycle constraints
o Search
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12. EDM vs DM
• When do you need Enterprise-wide Document
Management?
o Identify Document Management Scope
• Local vs Enterprise-wide
o Enterprise-wide Document Management implications:
• Document Management needs to be centralized
• Security is key
• Put the “Enterprise” in Enterprise Document Management
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13. ECMS Characteristics
• ECMS is:
o Enterprise-Grade
o Feature Rich
o Easy to fit in
o Centralized and Shared
o Secure
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14. Liferay as an Enterprise Portal
Executives
Customers / Vendors Employees
Full Collaboration and Over 60 OOTB Portlets
Social Networking
Suite
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15. Alfresco as an ECMS
Web Applications Enterprise Portals Web Services
Business
App Server Process
Engine
CRM
Portal Server
Virtual File System
High Availability
FTP
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16. Alfresco as an ECMS
• Key Alfresco Features:
o Smart Spaces
o Rules/Actions
o Document Archival
o Rich Content Modeling
o Records Management
o Customizable Workflow
o Service Oriented Architecture
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17. Alfresco / Liferay Integration
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18. Alfresco / Liferay Integration
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19. Alfresco / Liferay Integration
• Clear integration path
• Community contributions from both sides
o Alfresco
o RAAr (by Rivet Logic)
o SCAr (by Rivet Logic)
o STAr (by Rivet Logic)
o Liferay
o Alfresco portlets (by Alfresco)
o AWPr (by Rivet Logic)
o Alfresco search portlet (community)
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20. Alfresco / Liferay Integration
• Alfresco makes it easy to integrate
• SSO Framework
• Multiple remote interfaces
• REST
• Web Services
• CMIS
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Highly customizable
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21. Alfresco / Liferay Integration
• Alfresco Portlets expose:
• Content & Document Management
• Records Management
• Web Publishing and Shared Workspaces
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22. Alfresco Portlets
My Tasks
Document
Library
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23. RAAr
• Remote Alfresco API rivet
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24. SCAr
• Seam Client for Alfresco rivet
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25. AWPr
• Alfresco Web script Portlet rivet
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26. STAr
• Secure Token Authentication rivet
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27. Case Study:
US Dept of Education / CCSSO
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28. CCSSO
• Liferay for presentation
• Alfresco for document management
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29. CCSSO
• Documents
and
metadata in
Alfresco
• Web script
portlet to
expose
documents
in the portal
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30. Summary
• Enterprise Portals need a robust ECMS
• ECMS’s and Enterprise Portals are different
solutions
o Integration work is required
• ROI is achieved when:
o Technology stack is best-of-breed and enterprise-grade
o Liferay / Alfresco combination provides best value
o Already existing development is utilized
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31. Q&A
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