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Monday, April 6, 2015

My thoughts on Alfresco

Sl.No
Features
1
Hierarchical folders
2
Well managed permissions to the level of folders/contents
3
Activiti workflow engine integrated, which is BPMN 2 complaint engine.
4
Social Features - More collaborative platform as we can comment the contents/files,favourite content,like content, share content
5
Social Channel Publishing - Contents can be pushed to external channels like facebook,twitter,youtube
6
Multi file upload support
7
CMIS support is available
8
Dynamic Filters - Filter the list of files based on Tags, Recently added/modified, Files you/others are editing
9
Version Control - Simple update process, major/minor versions, version comments, and version history
10
Thumbnails - Automatic generation for wide-range of formats including MSOffice, OpenOffice, Image, and PDF
11
Flash Previews - Full Flash-based document preview, no download or client application launch required
12
Multi-Select Operations - Move/Copy multiple items in a single operation
13
RSS Feed for recent changes
14
AJAX driven UI built using the Yahoo YUI Library
15
Drag & Drop file upload feature
16
Can be used as the multi tenant environment
17
Search can be done with the help of solr
18
Document preview- no need to download the document to see the contents
19
google docs integration to work with documents
20
LDAP/AD/SSO integration
21
Bulk ingestion tool available
22
Synchronization with a cloud instance of Alfresco
23
JMX connectivity for remote monitoring and management of Alfresco
24
Clustering can be done
25
User dashboard to see the recent activities, his documents ,his site documents. Dashboard can be customised






Sl.No
Feature not sophisiticated
1
Archival is not sophisticated ,even though we can store the old contents in slower file system using content store selector
2
No e signature facility available. To be achieved using custom development
3
Reporting is not sophisticated
4
Audit log is not sophisticated needs custom configuration/coding
5
Encryption of content while storing in the disk is not sophisiticated
6
No automated backup restore steps, it should be taken care by admins