Alfresco 4.0 will be released to the Community at the end of September. This presentation covers the highlights of the features and functionality coming with the release.

1. Get Ready forAlfresco 4.0Paul Hampton

2. Features that make Alfresco easier to use Features that provide Social Content Management support Features that make Alfresco easier to deploy and manage

3. Usability

4. Question? How do you make it easier to… add content find content and use content?

5. Uploading Content Support drag and drop upload Drag from desktop Drop on to folders Improved parallel upload Support drag and drop move Drag files to the folder tree, folders or the breadcrumb HTML5 enabled browsers Get D&D move screen shot off Paul HH

6. Finding Content Sort folder view By name, type, rating… Inline edit of properties Name Tags Screen Shot Folder sorting and inline edit

7. Viewing Content Redesigned UI More room for preview Toggle actions, properties, tags, etc. Support more formats Preview Video and Audio Support for Apple iWorks files

8. Site Administration Drag and drop setup of components Rename components Brand sites Improved help Default text Help bubbles

9. Other Enhancements Improved calendar Create from template TinyMCE link to page Geotag linked to Google maps Google Docs

10. Social Content Management

11. Social Features – Followers Follow influential people Use search to find people to follow Activities – what are they doing Private following list Find out who is following you

12. Social Features – Ratings and Commenting Ability to ‘like’ content Sort content by ratings Find highly rated content Comment counts Rewind version tree

13. Social Features – Notifications Proactive notifications Uses HTML templates (localized) Can be customized (in repo) Activity feed, following and WF tasks Personal preferences Op-in/out New activity dashlet Multiple options New filers

14. Social Features – Publishing Support two types Content Status updates Support for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr Can be extended Define ‘Channels’ Multiple channels for each service Publish

15. Social Publishing Administration Define the channels Define credentials Java API to build automation User Select content New action ‘Publish’ Select channel(s) View publishing history

16. Administration

17. Web Administration License warnings Admin console Tag and category managers Channels and Workflow management Community Enterprise

18. New Index Server – SOLR Replace Lucene More scalable solution Separate SOLR index server Remove load from Alfresco servers SOLR index used for search

19. Lucenevrs. SOLR I I I I I DB FS DB FS SOLR

20. SOLR Support Customer can choose either Lucene or SOLR Typical upgrade process Install Alfresco 4.0 Configure SOLR Run SOLR index Switch off Lucene Fine grain control over what gets indexed ‘Eventually Consistent’ Client support Alfresco Explorer Alfresco Share WebDAV FTP MS SharePoint CIFS RM will follow 4.0

21. Activiti Workflow Designed by Tom Baeyens (founder of the open source BPM engine jBPM) Option to use Activiti, jBPM or both Apache licensed with support for BPMN 2.0 standard Designer for Enterprise

22. Activiti Admin Deploy

23. Processes

24. WCM Web Quick Start Publish to file system Also DM to file system Multilingual web site support Mark an asset / section as translatable Edit the locales available on a particular website See the translations of a given asset / section Create a new translation of a translatable asset / section Edit a translation of a translatable asset / section

25. Something for the Developers Forms Service Action forms – Configuration only forms Extensibility Config to switch on and off features / menus Drop in custom extensions to the UI (admin UI) OpenCMIS with Surf/Share Allows for simple upgrades in the future Model Management Configuration based display of properties in list view Multilingual label support (constraints) Encrypting properties Example: RM now and extension

27. Availability End September 2011 Alfresco Community 4.0 Mid December 2011 Alfresco Enterprise 4.0 Alfresco Team 4.0 Q1 2012 Alfresco Records Management 4.0

28. Alfresco 4.0 Easier to Use Supports Social Content Management Easier to manage and deploy

29. Mobile

30. Mobile Features Find content Browse sites and folders Search View content View file information Download to device Open in app Favorites Send content to others Comment Upload content (WebDAV)

31. Questions? Paul Hampton Paul.Hampton@Alfresco.Com