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Alfresco Capability Profile

InfoAxon’s Alfresco

Integration Capabilities

InfoAxon’s Alfresco Integration

Capabilities

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Alfresco ‘Turbo-charged’ By InfoAxon

Powerful Open Source Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration are becoming more and more vital, even to small and medium organizations. As

the amount of content produced increases, demands from knowledge workers to intelligently store, manage, share and benefit

from organizational knowledge raises manifolds. That‟s where familiar solutions within organizations such as shared drives and

simple workflow quickly become inadequate.

Alfresco applies open source technology to address these issues and offers complete range of collaborative content

management capabilities ranging from document management, records management, image management, and web content

management coupled with web2.0 collaboration.

Alfresco is world‟s leading Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Platform. Since its first release in 2005,

Alfresco has rapidly evolved into a full-blown ECM platform and a leading open source alternative for enterprise content

management such as Microsoft SharePoint.

InfoAxon & Alfresco – ‘Whole Solution’ to your content & knowledge

management needs

Organizations are looking for flexible, open and cost effective platforms to manage the productivity of their Knowledge Workers and

to meet the demands of external stakeholders such as partners, vendors and customers.

Three trends are unmistakable:

Move from traditional ECM suites to flexible Open Source Platforms

Driving Innovation with more of Open source

Lowering costs using Open source intelligently

Alfresco is leading the change with above trends.

InfoAxon has deep understanding and expertise around Integration of Alfresco ECM Platform with other open source products /

frameworks and also extending Alfresco to incorporate your business use cases.

While most organizations interested in open source content management would pick Alfresco like any other product the fact

remains that the solution around Alfresco requires integration of some key other open source or proprietary technologies. Our

Alfresco Integration services provide an innovative „Whole Solution‟ to your business problems by either enhancing Alfresco further

or by integrating it with other open source frameworks such as Portal, BI, CRM etc. This is a unique differentiator which InfoAxon

brings to the market converting Alfresco as a technology to a proper KM platform for your enterprise.

Our existing Alfresco based implementations has resulted into business solutions which could be quickly customized and enhanced

for your business scenario

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Knowledge Management Platform „fusionKM‟

Collaborative Document Management Platform „AxonShare‟

Document Scanning and Processing

Integration of Portal Frameworks with Alfresco: Alfresco Liferay Integration

Advanced Reporting in Alfresco Share

Search Engine Enhancements & Federated Search.

Content/Repository as a Service.

Alfresco With InfoAxon: Reduce Risk,

Maximize Opportunity

Using its unique combination of Alfresco expertise and deep

understanding of open source model, InfoAxon helps organizations

conceptualize, design and deploy open source collaborative content

management solutions. This has far reaching effects in

ensuring the achievement of business outcomes through a proper

Solution rather than just product deployment.

InfoAxon‟s „Alfresco Integration‟ services help organizations extend the

value of their Alfresco deployments by ensuring proper

design, architecture, enhancements and integrations with other

enterprise applications to deliver production grade Alfresco

solutions.

InfoAxon has proven expertise in delivering following solutions leveraging Alfresco:

Knowledge Management

Web 2.0 Collaboration using Alfresco Share

Document Management

Records Management

Digital Assets Management.

Integration with Portal, Reporting, Social Network frameworks such as Liferay, Pentaho, BIRT etc.

InfoAxon has successfully delivered collaborative content and knowledge management solutions leveraging Alfresco across industry

verticals such as:

International Development & Government

Financial Services and Insurance

Retail and Manufacturing

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Solution Design & Architecture:

InfoAxon brings its expertise and know-how in Alfresco framework coupled with deep understanding of open source development

model, to ensure that the right design & architectural foundation is put in place first based on customer‟s business and IT roadmap.

InfoAxon offers following:

Solution conceptualization

Information Architecture Design

Scalability, Performance and Capacity Planning

Security Model Design

Content Modeling

Business Ontology / Taxonomy Design & Development

Workflow Design, Business Process Management (BPM) using jBPM

Collaboration Flows & Structure

Interface Design & Flows

Alfresco Integration & Development

Like most solutions, Alfresco ECM implementations are not one-size-fits-all and

typically requires integration of some key other open source or proprietary

products / frameworks / components to provide an innovative „Whole Solution‟

to business problems.

InfoAxon works closely with its customers to ensure the right solution is

designed for a given business problem / scenario. InfoAxon provides following

services:

Pre-built Integration with:

Portal Frameworks – Liferay, JBoss

Business Intelligence & Reporting – Pentaho, BIRT

Groupware – IBM Lotus

Enterprise Applications – CRM, ERP, CMS

3rd Party Applications – Document Scanning, Imaging and Processing

Enterprise Authentication - LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, Sun

Directory Server

Single Sign On (SSO) - CAS

Custom Integration & Development leveraging:

REST Services and/or Web Services

Repository as Service

Java, JavaScript APIs

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Platform independent data

JSON

XML

ATOM

Platform Independent Protocols

HTTP

REST

SOAP

Alfresco Customizations & Enhancements

There are occasions when Alfresco ECM could be deployed as Solution in itself without much integration and further development.

However the solution requires customization of existing Alfresco functionalities and some enhancements to create a Solution

fulfilling the needs of the customer.

InfoAxon has deep understanding of Alfresco internals and have done several customizations and enhancements, some of which

have been committed into main Alfresco Codebase such as Alfresco Ajax based Calendar.

InfoAxon provides following services:

Alfresco Explorer & Share Customizations

JSF, Spring, SURF, YUI, XFORMS

New & customized Dashlets, Pages, Site Templates

UI changes and branding

Custom Tasks and Workflows in jBPM

Action Handlers

Task Assignments

Notifications

Business Rules

Alfresco Enhancements:

Using Web Scripts via REST based services, Aspects

Embedded Reporting with Alfresco Share – Charts, Graphs, Automatic PDF

conversion

Embedded PDF Toolkit – Merge, Split, Insert PDF, PDF Watermarking, PDF Encryption, Digital Signatures

Automatic Email Tagging

Organizational Hierarchy incorporation

Permission Model Enhancements

Search Engine Enhancements

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Alfresco Solution Deployment & Support

Once the Solution has been conceptualized and developed, its important to have the right deployment on the production

environment to ensure the performance and scalability of the integrated solution.

InfoAxon has successfully delivered Alfresco solutions across the globe in several verticals, to medium and large organizations, and

catering to various problem domains which has resulted into extensive experience of production grade deployment, support and

maintenance.

InfoAxon provides following services:

Packaging of Integrated Solution as „One Single Alfresco Solution Stack‟ covering

RHEL, CentOS, Windows

Alfresco Share

MySQL, Oracle,

jBOSS, Liferay, BIRT, Pentaho

Content Migration and Upgrade Management

Production Environment Design & Architecture

Performance Tuning

Capacity Planning

Content Backup & Recovery Strategies

Monitoring

Bug Fixing

Business Continuity: SLA driven Support & Maintenance of entire Alfresco Solution Stack

Pre-Integrated Alfresco Solutions

Our existing Alfresco based implementations has resulted into business solutions which could be quickly customized and enhanced

for your business scenario

Knowledge Management Platform „fusionKM‟

Collaborative Document Management Platform „AxonShare‟

Document Scanning and Processing

Integration of Portal Frameworks with Alfresco: Alfresco

Liferay Integration

Advanced Reporting in Alfresco Share

Search Engine Enhancements & Federated Search

Content / Repository as a Service

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Document Scanning & Processing Integration with Alfresco Share

Digitization of documents offers many benefits such as:

Reduced Filing, Storage, and Distribution costs

Faster and reliable access to documents through centralized Search

Automated Workflows based on business processes

Regulatory Compliance

However in case the paper document captured electronically through scanning does not become part of the enterprise content

management system for further retrieval and business process automation, the Value of the captured document is lost. At InfoAxon

we firmly believe that Knowledge gets created only when:

Metadata gets applied to a piece of content

The content becomes part of a business process where it could be contextualized

For this it is necessary to have a Single Integrated Platform which provides an integrated capability to digitize paper document

through scanning, document separation, indexing (metadata extraction), release of electronic document into the content repository,

retrieval through single Search, and above all the electronic document becoming part of the business process workflow.

The lifecycle of the scanned document could be further managed through the use of „Record Management‟ capability of Alfresco.

Record management ensures that a record lifecycle staring from record capture, management, control to final disposition (archive,

destroy etc.) be applied to the records.

InfoAxon has integrated 3rd party OCR software with Alfresco Share which allows physical paper scanning, indexing and storage as

a workflow driven process.

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Open Source Platform for Knowledge Management

fusionKM is a Knowledge Management platform – using the platform organizations can quickly establish internal KM solution

and develop their internal business process and taxonomy. It allows organizations to create departments, networks, projects,

groups and enables users to work in a collaborative environment.

The platform is offered as an in-premise SaaS model. The whole stack is maintained and managed by InfoAxon.

Social Network Solutions in today‟s days create Networks, enables users to collaborate in a highly interactive fashion; but rarely

they are useful in terms of Knowledge Management aspects. In other words, today‟s social network platforms do not cater to a

major business problem – Knowledge Management. fusionKM enables organizations to establish a number of networks and groups

within and thus enabling all the knowledge sharing and management aspects.

fusionKM allows users to conduct single point and comprehensive search not only from the in-premise knowledge bank but also

from the wide spread internet sources. Automatic and intelligent search engine enables users to find the desired information quickly

and efficiently. The rich knowledge repository of fusionKM constitutes of Wikis, Blogs, Documents, Discussion Forums, EMails,

Media files etc.

The Knowledge Network

Like a social networking platform, in fusionKM, people can make friends, join any groups or communities – thus creating their

individual network. fusionKM introduces Knowledge Network which is, for a person, the whole knowledge base of his/her social

network. Now a person‟s knowledge is not limited to him profile only; but his whole social networks constitute his knowledge base.

fusionKM enables organizations to create groups, departments, locations, projects – and users contribute in these thus creating

knowledge contents. Users can be friends to each other thus expanding their knowledge network.

Organization‟s knowledge thus keeps on building in a single repository on a highly collaborative and web 2.0 enterprise portal

framework.

Solution Highlights

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

The solution is designed and architected in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA),

making it fully extensible and integrated with organizations internal and legacy

systems.

Repository as Service

The full knowledge repository can be exposed as REST based HTTP services,

making the solution ready to serve as knowledge provider to other systems.

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Business Process

The integrated business process engine can be configured to implement any workflow

processes of any industry or organization. It has integrated modules for Reporting, Timesheet,

Project Management, Task Management, Escalation etc.

Portal Full featured JSR complaint portal framework with lots of built in applications such as Wiki,

Blog, Discussion Forum, Calendar, Theme, Web CMS, Document Management, Private

Messaging etc.

CMIS CMIS complaint platform enabling interoperability between other Enterprise Content

Management Systems.

Protocols A number of industry standard protocols such as WebDAV, IMAP, CIFS, FTP etc are supported

in fusionKM making the platform pluggable to other complaint systems.

Intranet ready fusionKM is a fitting solution for organization wide Intranet setups with multiple branches,

departments and geographically distributed.

Mesh Ups

fusionKM has built in applications to integrate with several other popular information and

knowledge sources; such as Bing, Youtube, Flickr, Delicious, Wikipedia etc.

Open Platform

No limit in number of users and knowledge content size and space.

Features

Friends

Communities/Groups

Sub organizations

/Locations

Integrated Search

engine

Graphical

Representation of

Knowledge/Network

Contextualized Search

Tagging/Tag Cloud

Public, Private contents

Portal Framework

Wikis, Blogs

Discussion Threads

Dynamic Document

Metadata

Document Check-In /

Check-Out, versioning

Document

Transformation, PDF

generation

Image Processing,

Transformation

Automatic/Custom

Workflows

Private Messaging

Bookmarking

Image Gallery

Related Documents

Tree-style Folder structure for documents

Granular and Customizable

Permissioning model Notifications, Calendars, Events

Search by Synonyms

Dynamic Portal

Themes

Separate Themes and Navigations for groups, locations, communities

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Benefits

For Users

Reduces time required to complete knowledge intensive work

Increases “trust level” in information accuracy and timeliness

Eases burden on subject “experts” since users can get answers and guidance to their

questions on a self-serve basis

For Administrators

Minimal resources required for ongoing maintenance as many tasks can be scheduled for

automatic rule based execution

Security inherited from content source, so administrators do not have to worry about

unauthorized users gaining access to sensitive information

Comprehensive toolkit for building, supervising and managing the Enterprise Portal

For Organizations

Improves ROI of knowledge asset management by reusing information instead of

reinventing and searching for it

Reduces cost of retaining intellectual capital and transmitting it to new employees or

successors

Quick and Easy installation and use across the enterprise

All resources and knowledge under a single umbrella

Flexible licensing and pricing model

Based on full Open Source – Full ownership, no vendor lock-in

Full featured Corporate Intranet platform

Powerful Web CMS

for Portal pages

Public, Private,

Restricted groups

Saved Searches

Custom Taxonomies

User Folksonomy

JSR Portal

framework, Portlets

Full Text Search

CIFS document

access for Intranet

setups

Templates

Dedicated, private

space for users

The Technology

Liferay® Portal

Alfresco® ECM

Open Office

JBPM

JQuery, YUI

Lucene

MySQL

Apache Tomcat

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About InfoAxon Technologies

InfoAxon is a leading provider of enterprise services and business

solutions powered by open source. We design, architect and support

complete “Enterprise Solution Platforms” using Open Standards, Web 2.0

next generation technologies and Open Source Frameworks providing

end-to-end solutions to business problems.

India‟s First Global Open Source Integration Company

We are India's First Global Open Source Integration Company providing business solutions in areas of Content & Knowledge Management,

Web2.0 Collaboration and Business Intelligence powered by our

unique open source „Platforming‟ expertise.

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