Aca corporate presentation 2011 (keynote)

DELIVER BETTER SOLUTIONS FASTER

HAVING FUN IN A GREAT AND FOCUSED TEAM,
SUPPORTED BY THE BEST TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES;
THAT’S HOW WE DELIVER BETTER SOLUTIONS FASTER.

ACA IT-SOLUTIONS

Thursday 24 January 13

ACA IT-Solutions | Quickscan

Using open technologies and an agile approach, we implement future
proof enterprise class solutions to support our clients’ core business.

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Content & Document Management

Employees
53

35 Collaboration Platforms
18 Enterprise Portals
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1999 2001 2003 2005 2007
Turnover (x 1.000 euro)
Identity & Access Management

8.000

6.000
Software development
4.000
Requirements modeling
2.000

1999
0 Project Management
2001 2003 2005 2007

© ACA IT-SOLUTIONS WWW.ACA-IT.BE DELIVER BETTER SOLUTIONS FASTER


ACA IT-Solutions | References
100% of our projects run in production.



ACA IT-Solutions | Partners



Alfresco | introduction

Web Content Management
Document Management
Collaboration Platform
Content Platform



Alfresco | Market Momentum
1.8 million downloads
130,000 Community members

50,000+ Sites in production

150 Applications on the Alfresco Forge

900+ enterprise customers
100 new clients per quarter
73% of business via partners
Finance, Insurance, Administrations

Recreation, Media, Press

Industries & Services

Community base in 182 countries

Huge Market Adoption
More web activity than Filenet, Documentum, Opentext and Interwoven



Alfresco | Platform



Alfresco | Document/Records Management
Shared Drive Web 2.0 Email
UI UI UI

http
WebDAV/CIFS imap

JCR
Documents CMIS (REST, WebServices)
Other
Records JavaScript API (WebScripts) Applications
... e.g. Portal

Shared Services

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Alfresco | Features that users like

Simple Check-In/Out and Version Control Rules for content applications

OpenSearch Tagging

Integration with enterprise portals Shared drive

Integration with Microsoft Office Sandboxing, staging and virtualization

Multilingual management Reuse of assets



Alfresco | Features that developers / administrators like

REST architecture
Content Services

JEE architecture - Spring Based Zero-footprint clients

Interfaces for CIFS, WebDAV and FTP Security

Integrated workflow and Data management and
content lifecycle management Transformation Engine

Support for standards Collaboration Services

Lightweight Web Scripts
Workflow Services



Alfresco | Technical Landscape

Based on Java platform (Version 1.5 onwards)
Spring framework used for dependency injection & cross
cutting aspects
JSF
Alfresco uses many OSS components and integrates them
Rhino XSLT in their platform
Hibernate Internal API
Spring
Framewor Hibernate The API is structured around services
Service; lowest API level you interact with
Java EE platform
NodeService, FileFolderService, AuthenticationService,
…
Customizable and injectable using Spring



Alfresco | Technical Landscape

HTML ATOM RSS JSON
WebScript:
‣Lightweight scriptable REST Framework
‣Java/JavaScript Based
‣Used by Alfresco to create extensions
‣Fundamental Component of the SURF Web
Framework

Content Web Script HTML ATOM RSS JSON
Runtime
Repositor
y
Navigation FreeMarker (View)
Search
WebScript Runtime (Controller)
Security
...
Content Rendering Content Services (Model)
Services Services



Alfresco | Extensions

Share
Alfresco Share ‣Collaborative Content Management Platform
‣Build around personalized pages with Dashlets
‣Support for Wiki, Profiles, Social Tagging,
Personalized Dashboards, Communities,
Calendars, Activity Feeds, Document Previews, ...
‣Based on Alfresco Surf/WebScripts

Web
Content Script
Repositor
y
Navigation

Search

Security
...

Conten Renderin
t g



Liferay | Introduction

Portal Server



Liferay | Introduction
Liferay is considered the leading open source enterprise portal solution using the
latest in Java and Web 2.0 technologies.
Popular use cases include:
Web publishing & content management
Intranet / Extranet
Collaboration platform
Social network
EAI framework - Mashups
Standards Based
JSR-168/JSR-286



Liferay | Overview



Liferay | Portal Features

Out-of-the-box portlets Single-Click Configuration

SOA Framework Dynamic Drag & Drop

Secure Single Sign On (SSO) Work From Your Desktop

Granular, Role-Based Authorizations Search & Tagging

Multi-language Support
Personal User Pages

Communities & Organizations



Liferay | Community Centric Model

Community Portal Wide

Roles
Private/Public Pages

members Users
roles/permissions
Community Roles

User Groups

Announcements & Alerts Blogs Email Calendar Polls Feeds Instant Messaging

Activity Tracking Message Boards
composed of WIKIs Document Library & Image Gallery Web Publishing Drag-
Private/Public Pages Portlets Search Engine Optimizati

and-Drop Site Maps Search & Tagging
Community Administration Communities
& Organizations Personal User Pages



Liferay | Collaboration Features

Wikis Activity Tracking

Message Boards Instant Message

Blogs Email

RSS Shared Calendar

Announcements & Alerts
Polls



Liferay + Alfresco Integration

Liferay Portal - Site Centric
‣Strong focus on Collaboration and Security
‣Powerful and Scriptable Community Features
CMIS ‣Customizable by the end-users
Liferay Portal REST (WebScripts) ‣Great for aggregating data from multiple sources
Alfresco Web Services
...

Content
Repositor Afresco - Content Centric
Applications y Clients
‣Strong focus on Content and its life-cycle
CMIS CIFS
‣Can handle large amount of data
WebDAV WebDAV
WS-* ‣Customizable datamodel, workflows, tasks, ...
FTP
REST ‣SupportHTTP
for multiple delivery channels
ATOM/RSS ...
Java
...



Example Intranet built @ Randstad with Agile development
Facts
2,819.20 Visits/day
5 GB data
10K Content Items



Example PAAS portal @ Belgacom with Agile development



Agile project approach

rapid delivery of high-quality software development iterations
frequent inspection and adaptation collaboration Agile process adaptability
small increments with minimal planning minimize the overall risk
documentation is produced as required by stakeholders
Agile cross-functional and self-organizing teams review progress
working software as the
optimizing the return on investment

primary measure of progress alignment with customer needs
and company goalscontinuous integration pair programming test
driven development code refactoring Agile eliminate waste
improve quality collective ownership guaranteed
success



Iterative process



Advantages

VISIBILITY BUSINESS VALUE

Agile approach

Traditional approach

ADAPTABILITY RISC



Agile - Voortgangsrapportage via burndown chart



Budgetbepaling | Budgetindicatie



Contact
ACA IT-Solutions Hasselt ACA IT-Solutions Weert (Nl) Clovislaan 82
B-1000 Brussel
Ilgatlaan 5C (TISA)
B-3500 Hasselt T +32(0)2 734.02.65
Emmasingel 48-50 F +32(0)2 734.61.80
T +32(0)11 26.50.10
F +32(0)11 26.50.11 6001BD Weert

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