Building Best Publishing Platform Alfresco & Drupal Integrated Solution to Achieve Scalability, Speed, Simplicity, and Superior User Experience Date: December 5, 2013 Rajesh Avatani Practice Lead - Alfresco CIGNEX Datamatics Chirayu Joshi Senior Consultant - Alfresco CIGNEX Datamatics
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Building Best Publishing Platform
Alfresco & Drupal Integrated Solution to Achieve Scalability, Speed, Simplicity, and Superior User Experience
Date: December 5, 2013
Rajesh Avatani
Practice Lead - Alfresco
CIGNEX Datamatics
Chirayu Joshi
Senior Consultant - Alfresco
CIGNEX Datamatics
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Agenda
• Content Management & Publishing
• Publishing Platform
– RAPIDO Solution: Integrated DM & WCM
• Business Benefits
• Alfresco & Drupal Integrated Solutions Examples
• Q & A
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Content Management & Publishing – - Today
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Business Unit#1 Content Processing
& Approval
Business Unit#2 Content Processing
& Approval
Internal Content Authors,
Designers & Writers
External Content Authors,
Designers & Writers
System A – Check Content
DB
System B – Modify Content
DB
System C – Amend Content
DB
Print Vendor
Other Channels
Laptop & Desktop
Smartphone & Tablet
Content Layer Presentation Layer
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Current Challenges – Content Mgmt. & Publishing
• Various Disparate Content Management Systems
• Lack of Content Access & Transformation
• Absence of Media & Content Reuse
• Complex Process to follow
• Challenge in Content Packaging & Distribution
• Inefficient Multi-Channel Content Publishing
• Delay in On-Time Delivery of Content
• Expensive Multi License Management
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Optimal Content Mgmt. & Publishing
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Business Unit #1
Business Unit #2
Business Unit #N
Business Unit #3
Internal Content Authors,
Designers & Writers
External Content Authors,
Designers & Writers
Automate
Compliance
Track
Modify
Workflow Engine
Print Vendor
Other Channels
Laptop & Desktop
Smartphone & Tablet
Manage Publish Capture
Content Layer Presentation Layer
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Rapid Automated Powerful Integrated Dynamic Open Source
• Workflow • Collaboration management • Version control • Document management
• Locking, check in/out • Offline briefcase synchronization • Taxonomy and categorization • Search - full text advanced search • Soft deletes and recovery support • Full audit control
• Open protocols(FTP / WebDAV, CIFS)
Alfresco positioned as “Visionary” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content
Management
RAPIDO: Integrated DM & WCM
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Presentation Layer
Drupal is great at
• Multichannel presentation of content to Mobile, Browsers
• SEO friendly • User friendly interface with
In-context page editing • Collaboration, Social media &
Commerce • Controlled publishing • Analytics • Quick and easy setup • Large active community to support
Capture Publish
Drupal positioned as “Visionary” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
& Social Software
Manage
Content Layer
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RAPIDO Features - Integrated DM & WCM
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Advanced Search (Taxonomy/Tagging based)
Scalability, Security, Performance
Managed Cloud Hosting (Resilient & Scalable)
Community Collaboration (across stakeholders)
User Management (Roles & Permissions, SSO)
Integration with other Enterprise Applications (Open Source, Legacy, Proprietary)
Microsites, Multilingual
Responsive Theme
Commerce
SEO, Social Media
Analytics
Web Content Management Document Management
Workflow/Rules Engine
Versioning
Categorization
Content Templates/Modeling
Meta Data, External Apps (MSOffice, Google, iWork, Adobe)
Enterprise Content Layer
Content Presentation Layer
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RAPIDO - Integration Flexibility
• PHP CMIS Wrapper
– Written by Richard McKnight
– Contributed to Apache Chemistry
– Used by Drupal, Wordpress, SugarCRM
– http://chemistry.apache.org/php/phpclient.html
• Drupal CMIS API
– Query, Browse & Sync modules
– Good for managing documents in Alfresco and then surfacing them in Drupal
– Ideal platform to build on
– Richard McKnight’s CMIS PHP Wrapper
– Used by 277 sites
– http://drupal.org/project/cmis
• Drupal CMIS Views
– Built for Alfresco Team later extended
– Takes a folder path and returns a PHP object
– Allows blocks of CMIS content to be themed by Drupal
– Built on the Drupal CMIS API
– Used on Alfresco Team, Partners and forthcoming dotcom
Media Publishing Sites, Event Publishing Sites, Mobile Sites
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RAPIDO Benefits
• Scalability
– Integrated DM & WCM
– Managed Cloud Hosting
– Integration Flexibility with MSOffice, iWork, Google, Adobe
• Speed
– High Performance
– Faster Content Approval Process
– Faster Search
• Simplicity
– Content Categorization & Versioning
– Advanced Security
• Superior User Experience
– Faster Page Load Time
– Easy to Find Content
– Multi-lingual Support
– Mobile-ready Sites
– Usage Statistics
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Success Stories
Business Benefits through Alfresco + Drupal Adoption
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Publishing Platform - Integrated DM & WCM
• Client Overview – An event and marketing services company that serves business
professionals and consumers in the Fashion, Licensing, Life Sciences industries with its portfolio of 134 events, 30 publications, over 200 electronic products and Web sites, as well as educational and direct marketing products and services
• Challenges – Flexibility -
• Legacy media sites built using JSP Servlets causing dependency on IT team for content publication
– Distributed content causing redundancy
– Absence of structured workflow
– Need for zero downtime
– Security
• Missing field level security based on profile
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Publishing Platform - Integrated DM & WCM
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Publishing Platform - Integrated DM & WCM
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Share Configuration
Micro Sites
Themes
Analytics
Site Administrators, External Users
Content Authors, Internal
Users
Visitors
Integration
Workflow Interface
BPM Engine
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Architecture - Integrated DM & WCM
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User & Group Management
Authentication
Content Management
Work Flow
CMIS Services
Content CMIS Queries
Alfresco Repository
Content Creator
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View, Article, Blogs
View Issues
View Magazines
CMIS Services
Manage Contents Content
Drupal DB
Website User
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Drupal CMS
Alfresco Share
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Demo
Integrated Solution – Alfresco + Drupal
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Realizing Benefits
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Scalability
• Integrated DM & WCM – 50+ site migration planned
– Managing 500,000 legacy articles
• Managed Cloud Hosting – Move various sites and domains to cloud
• Alfresco based Toolkit: Migration from Documentum
• Contract Management Solution (Alfresco)
• Smart Document Processing Solution (Alfresco)
• Drupal Themes
• CQUAD – Drupal Magento Connector for e-commerce
website
• Drupal-MongoDB Connector
Brief Snapshot
Alfresco APAC Partner of the Year, 2010
Alfresco North America Partner of the Year, 2010
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Free Assessment Offer
• This assessment enables companies to maximize existing IT assets and build a roadmap of the vetted Open Source technology options to: – Reduce software costs up-to 70%
– Help generate opportunities for growth and service
• The FREE Assessment Offer Includes: – Situation Analysis