IntroductionIn this article we will have a look at how you can build a content and process solution on top of the Alfresco Content Services (ACS) 6.0 and Alfresco Process Services (APS) 1.9 components of the Alfresco Digital Business Platform (DBP). The user interface will be built with the Alfresco Read more...

IntroductionThere is a new authentication architecture available in the latest releases of the Alfresco products. More specifically we are talking about the ACS 6.0, APS 1.9, and ADF 2.4 product releases. It is still Early Access (EA) functionality not yet supported, so don’t use this in production. Read more...

We want to see this space grow with contributions from the community, here are a few ways to get involvedhare a SolutionDo you offer a solution using a relevant technology (AI, Blockchain, voice, AR etc.) that you want more in Alfresco and the wider community to know about?Submit it here and we'll Read more...

In this document we'll keep track of the existing Alfresco partner solutions making use of AI, blockchain, voice/gesture control, VR/AR etc.The diagram below (click to expand) shows high-level use cases and the solutions we have so far identified within each category. In time we'll build out more de Read more...

Input & UIVoice driven Alfresco app with Amazon AlexaVoice driven ADF appNatural Language Processing and Enterprise SearchCognitive Video ViewerAutomation & EnrichmentImage & Text Analysis with AWS Rekognition & ComprehendProcess Services & the IoTAlfresco Photo Analyzer ModuleIn Read more...

Common Use CasesHere are some of the common use cases around content and process with potential for emerging tech. Some of these have a number of established solutions, others don't. We'll be sharing more of the gaps we see soon.  Read more...

In this post we'll highlight projects using emerging technologies to improve governance services with Alfresco. This will grow over time as more projects emerge from both Alfresco and the community. Got a project you'd like featured? Let me know!Alfresco & BlockchainBen Chevallereau talks about Read more...

In this post we'll highlight projects using technologies to automate workflows and enrich content metadata, for example: Text analysis, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, image & video tagging.  This will grow over time as more projects emerge from both Alfresco and the community. Got a proj Read more...

In this post we'll highlight projects using technologies around new ways of inputting data and creating user interfaces, for example: Voice control, natural language processing, VR & AR. This will grow over time as more projects emerge from both Alfresco and the community. Got a project you'd li Read more...

Long ago, perhaps 6 or 7 BC (before children, my oldest is 9), I made the adventurous/stupid decision to buy a very used boat off of eBay.The 1986 Bayliner’s previous owner was a duct tape kind of guy: quick fix now, real fix later, (but later never comes).I am not a duct tape kind of guy.My (beauti Read more...

Today I have released a handy little tool called Sweeper!This tool checks your AWS accounts for services that are still running that may be costing your organisation money.A great use case is orphaned elastic load balancers. Without any instances attached they aren't balancing any traffic, but they Read more...

I’m the Product Manager for search and analytics at Alfresco and I often get asked about what we’re working on around search and analytics so I thought it was time to log our current thoughts.   I’ll try and post regular updates and I would always encourage you get in touch if there is something you Read more...

Hello AgainHi, I’m Ray Gauss.  You may remember me from such blog posts as “DAM Standards” and “Metadata… Stuff”.I’ve worked in Engineering on many areas of the Alfresco product portfolio and have fairly recently transitioned to the role of Architect for Platform Services, a new team whose self-proc Read more...

Having reliable pipelines to build, test, compile and ship your products are, in my opinion, the backbone of a software organisation. Having good developers is one thing but if you don't have the pipe that gets that product "out there" for the customers to see as soon as humanly possible then you ha Read more...

Welcome to the Alfresco platform community! We're currently offering a platform trial in our  section. We would love your feedback, so please review the guides, download and install the platform, and complete the quests! Read more...

Yesterday we, in Alfresco DevOps, successfully released our new control system for the creation, deployment, allocation and management of Alfresco CS (Content Services) Trials.These trials last for two weeks, allowing you the ability to experience ACS before committing to a purchase.All you need to Read more...

As of yesterday, we opened up two repositories.Firstly our in-development Online Trial Serverless Architecture. This can be found at GitHub - Alfresco/online-trials-architecture This new system is a replacement of our current deployment method and revolutionizes our present approaches to deployments Read more...

This article was originally posted in my personal blog here.SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) provides a mechanism to check configurations, vulnerability management and evaluate policy compliance for a variety of systems. One of the most popular implementations of SCAP is OpenSCAP and it i Read more...

Delivery Pipelines; When you think pipeline you usually think "I put something in one end and get something out of the other". True, but it's what happens whilst in the "pipe" thats the exciting bit. You can add as many or few gateways/checkpoints/hurdles as you believe is possible. Whatever you fee Read more...

By Martin Whittington, Software Engineer DevOps. 7th July 2015Disclaimer: This work and the technologies are not related to any Alfresco products.There isn’t a great deal of documentation or “best practices” that best describes how ReactJS could or can even receive updates via web-sockets.I trawled Read more...

By Martin Whittington, Software Engineer DevOps. 23rd July 2015Disclaimer: This work and the technologies are not related to any Alfresco productsI claim to be a full-stack developer. I’m happy to work on UI all the way back to server side code. But working on what I call the “OS” layer is something Read more...

Cloudformation is wonderful. Its a wonderful way of designing your infrastructure with code (JSON, YAML). But it does have its limitations and there is feature disparity between the template DSL and the AWS cli. Considering the work that's gone into implementing this system, I'm not surprised but it Read more...

Docker is really under the spotlight at the moment so we had a look at it to determine how it could help in our Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline.This article intends to show where we started and what the benefits we are getting from Docker. Our infrastructure:Bamboo CI Server16 Linux build agent Read more...