27 May

What's New in Alfresco 4.0

The enterprise workforce has changed and Alfresco understands that a new approach to content management is needed in this user-focused mobile corporate world. That is why Alfresco has created a new approach to enterprise content management with the cloud connected content program. This new valuable tool is built on Alfresco’s strong foundation of proven content management platform that has been used at over 2000 enterprises in nearly 60 countries.

The new 4.0 version of Alfresco features the ability for tablet users to access and edit content from any device, anywhere. Social network users easily like, follow and view content activity streams. This new systems also allows for easy social media content publishing.

Alfresco 4.0 integrate with productivity applications such as Microsoft Office, GoogleDocs as well as other popular productivity suites. Alfresco users can also collaborate with other outside their firewall with the new Cloud connects.

 The new Alfresco Enterprise 4 platform has been used in areas with over 100 million documents and thousands enterprise users.  A great many number of partners and their customers built content rich customized applications by using Alfresco.  There have been significant performance improvements such as four times faster content uploads and ten times faster dashboard queries from users.

The new scalability options mean that Alfresco 4 scales up or out with numerous new deployment options. The extensibility enhancements allow developers to easily customize and extend the Alfresco Share application using new configuration options and custom drop-in extensions. The web-based administration tools featured in Alfresco 4.0 helps clients to manage their content repository, users’ directory, social publishing channels and subscription right from the new web interface option.

Other new functionalities in Alfresco 4.0 :
•    Apache SOLR support
•    Drag and drop upload
•    Activiti Workflow
•    Social Channel Publishing

As Alfresco service provider, Softbless provides their clients with full service document management systems expertise. This exceptional partnership offers their clients a great deal of content enterprise management options that will truly make it possible for exceptionally well designed work efficient programs in the ever changing workforce of today and the future.
3 Apr

Alfresco Training - End User and Administrator Training, 23-24 April 2012

Summary
Alfresco is web based Enterprise Content Management/Document Management System, initiated by John Newton since 2005, one of the Documentum Co-founders. Alfresco has been entered into the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management category. Today Alfresco has been implemented in more than 5000 companies.
Alfresco is able to handle large-scale content management to millions of content. This training will equip participants about the concept of Enterprise Content Management, and the concept of Alfresco in particular, including the use and administration of Alfresco.

Schedule
Training will be held on : 23-24 April 2012 at 9AM-5PM

Location
Training will be held at PT Softbless Solutions office, Komp Perkantoran Mitra Matraman Blok A2 no 11, Jl Matraman Raya no 148, Jakarta Timur.

Facility
Participants will get manual, snack, lunch, and certificate from Softbless.

About trainer
  • Tiur Lumban Gaol, Softbless, is a Certified Alfresco Trainer, has 3 years experience in Enterprise Content Management implementantions including ELO Document Management System and Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System..
  • Togu Muara Sianturi, Softbless, has been involved in numerous projects Alfresco implementation, specializing in infrastructure configuration for Alfresco.

Investment
The training will cost Rp 3.250.000.
Early Bird Fee : Rp 3.000.000, for payment before 17 April 2012
Payment must be received 3 days before the training

Capacity
Maximum capacity : 8 persons.

How to register
  • Fill in registration form on : https://www.softbless.com/content/Alfresco-training-registration
  • Tranfer payment to :
    • BCA, Account No: 3428777877, PT Softbless Solutions
  • Payment must be received 3 days before the training
  • Cancellation fee :
    • 100% > 4 working days before training day
    • 50% <= 4 working days before training day

Syllabus     

Training for  End User (Day 1):
  • Alfresco Concept Introduction
  • Space and Content Ownership & Management
  • Rules, Aspect, Category Concept
  • Permission Access
  • Versioning
  • Simple and Advanced Workflow
  • Simple and Advanced Searching

Administrator Training(Day 2):
  • Installing and setting up Alfresco
  • Configuring the repository
  • Configuring the file system
  • Troubleshooting the system
  • Maintenance, Migration and Security
  • Exporting and importing
  • Backing up and restoring the system
  • Security and permissions
  • Bonus - Alfresco Customization for : Domain Model

Contact Person : 
For more information, please contact :
  • Tuti Izzati, email : tuti@softbless.com, phone : (021)85918058-59, HP : 085715848086
  • Tiur Lumban Gaol, email : tiur@softbless.com, phone : (021)85918058-59, HP : 0818181183

Remarks : 
Participants must bring their own laptop with wireless connectivity. Softbless does not provide PC for participant

27 Mar

The Benefit from ECM Implementation

What are the benefits for implementing Enterprise Content Management (ECM)?


Efficiency

 

  • Reduce the amount of paper used will reduce storage needs, and reduce the cost space, printing, copying, filing and distribution.
  • The number of documents that are exchanged will decrease, and eventually can increase the speed of business processes.
  • A centralized document storage will allow a user to perform collaboration, reduce copies of documents, and reduce kebutuhand disk space.
  • The ability to have easy search and speed up document searches.



Reduce Storage
Scanning of documents in the form of paper, can reduce the need for storage space.

Document retrieval is more flexible
The time required to retrieve documents would be less, without leaving the desk. And storing the  documents in electronic form would reduce the risk of data loss.

Flexible Indexing
Document and image content can be stored in the ECM and can be full text indexed for searching.

Search functions more complete, fast and flexible
ECM can search for content or documents by using the word or phrase in the document or the content (better known as full text search). ECM can also do the classification for every content and documents.


Controlling Documents Distribution
Document Imaging facilitate electronic distribution of documents with colleagues and clients through a network. In document imaging, the cost can be reduced because the distribution of documents need not be done with paper, and reducing office activities such as printing and shipping paper documents.

Improve Security
ECM provides flexible control and better, especially for confidential documents. ECM provides access rights that can be arranged at the folder level, document level, group level, divisional level and individual level.

Disaster Recovery
ECM provides an easy way to backup documents in off site storage. Using ECM also reduce the risk caused by natural disasters that may occur.

No Lost Files
Loss of important documents could have a major impact and can spend lots of time to replace it. With ECM, the document remains stored centrally, so nothing is lost or misplaced. Even if one puts in the ECM, the document can still be found quickly and easily through full text searching mechanism.

Digital Archiving

 

Sumber :

www.contentmanager.eu.com/dmsbens.htm

 

27 Mar

What is ECM (Enterprise Content Management)?

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)? is a set of tools and methods that allows a corporation, agency or organization to obtain, organize, store and deliver information crucial to its operation. The fundamental objectives of

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) are to streamline access, eliminate bottlenecks, optimize security, maintain integrity and minimize overhead.


According to the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), ECM can be broken down into five major components called capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver. The purpose of each component can be briefly defined as follows:

  • Capture: Create, obtain and organize information.
  • Manage: Process, modify and employ information.
  • Store: Temporarily back up frequently changing information in the short term.
  • Preserve: Back up infrequently changing information in the medium and long term.
  • Deliver: Provide clients and end users with requested information.

Reference : http://www.aiim.org
 

27 Mar

ECM (Enteprise Content Management) Functionalities

Some functionalities that ECM covers :

  • Document management - check-in/checkout control, version control, security and library services for business documents
  • Web Content Management - ability to remove the webmaster bottleneck, managing dynamic content and content authoring, general ease of use
  • Records management - ability to comply with legal or regulatory purposes, long-term archiving and automation of retention and compliance policies such as admissibility
  • Document capture and document imaging for capturing and managing paper documents - entire scanning process from paper to electronic format
  • Document Centric collaboration for document sharing and supporting project teams - including permissions
  • Workflow for supporting business processes and routing content, assigning work tasks and states, and creating audit trails of who did what, why, when and how

Sumber : http://www.contentmanager.eu.com/ecmq.htm



27 Mar

Do We Actually Need to Implement ECM

Larry Oliver of FileHold Systems  give some hints to find out whether ECM
will suits our need or not. If these questions often appear in your mind, that mean you need enterprise content management system :

  • "How can we get rid of all this paper and reduce our filing cabinets and offsite storage costs?"
  • "Every version of this contract is different: which is the most recent version? Who was working on it last?"
  • "I can find anything on Google but I can't find the proposal I wrote last month - we need search!"
  • "I need a system that sends me a reminder and gives me access to contracts up for renewal."
  • "Why can't we have electronic workflow to share our work and avoid duplication of effort?"
  • "Everyone has access to my files. I want to restrict documents to only people I want to see them?"
  • "Why does it take forever to get 5 different approvals on a revised policy document?"
  • "How do we stay in compliance with rules regarding record retention?"
  • "Each branch office has their own files on all of the same topic - needless duplication!"

Sumber : http://www.bstormweb.com/fileholdprofile.html


26 Mar

Enterprise Content Managament in a Glimpse

Enterprise Content Management or commonly referred to as ECM is a system used to capture, organize or manage content and documents involved in the business process. ECM manage content and documents in its entire life cycle, from creation, delivery, revision, published, and then finally archived.

ECM can be used at all levels of work (ranging from marketing, operation, human resources, finance and strategic levels). Moreover, ECM also has some helpful applications of the users dealing on an information.

Some of the most common features owned by the ECM system is: content / document versioning, document workflow, full text search, access rights, collaboration.

Several ECM system that has been widely known: Alfresco (Open Source licensed), SharePoint, Documentum, Open Text.