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Cloud Computing: Alfresco Team Simplifies Collaboration

By P. J. Connolly on 2012-01-27


Alfresco Team is a package of powerful collaboration tools that can be quickly deployed for a small workgroup or pilot project, but one which can easily scale to fit one’s needs. It works well with the Alfresco Mobile tools for Apple iOS, which themselves open up entirely new ways for businesses to capture and use images and sound. Alfresco Software is attempting to address the small and mid-range customer with Alfresco Team, based on the Alfresco Enterprise architecture used by nearly 2,000 businesses, including Home Depot, Michelin and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. It can be deployed in a traditional premise-based environment running Linux or Windows, or on an Amazon EC2 instance. Alfresco Team offers solid enterprise-class content management features including version tracking and granular user access. Coupled with the Alfresco Mobile tools for iOS, which allow the capture of audio, still images and video, Alfresco Team offers a first-class collaboration environment that meets the budget of the smallest organization. Alfresco Team Makes Collaboration Simple

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View From the Top


The user dashboard in Alfresco Team can be customized with a variety of useful features, which are packaged as dashlets that can be arranged on screen as desired.

At-a-Glance Document Management


The document library in Alfresco Team offers an at-a-glance view of content and the document hierarchy; document properties can be modified from this dashboard or one by one.

Catalog Documents With Ease


Alfresco Team’s document library offers powerful tools for tagging and manipulating content. The browser-based interface can allow direct editing, or check out the document for offline use.

Layered Access for Security


Alfresco Team lets site administrators assign users to various roles, depending on how they need to interact with content.

External Users Are Welcome


Alfresco Team makes it easy to bring in outside help to work on a project. Users are given one of the predefined access roles at the time the invitation is extended.

Create Workflows Quickly


Alfresco Team comes with a selection of predefined workflows for document review and approval. These can be done by individual users or as a group process.

Telling Users What They Need to Know


Alfresco workflows capture a healthy amount of detail, and display it in an easily digested format.

View the Work of Users


It’s an easy matter to see what a user’s been up to in Alfresco Team, which provides a dashboard view of recent work in the document library.

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