Comments on: Alfresco Share Heart SharePoint http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/ Investigations Into Enterprise 2.0 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:40:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jim Brown http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Jim Brown Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:35:21 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-341 Jay, Why didn't they just use SharePoint if they wanted SharePoint functionality? Jay,
Why didn’t they just use SharePoint if they wanted SharePoint functionality?

]]> By: Jay Hariani http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Jay Hariani Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:12:12 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-340 Lisa - Community supported software can have both upsides and downsides. If you would rather not dig deep into the technical underpinnings of the application, or aren't satisfied with the community support options that are available, I'd suggest paying for professional support. Lisa – Community supported software can have both upsides and downsides. If you would rather not dig deep into the technical underpinnings of the application, or aren’t satisfied with the community support options that are available, I’d suggest paying for professional support.

]]> By: Lisa Hillmann http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Lisa Hillmann Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:28:04 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-339 Jay - while we are waiting for the client roll-out, we have been beta-testing our own Alfresco Share platform for the project. The Labs version seems to have better functionality than the Enterprise version, but it is really buggy. Parts of the sites seems to break at random (i.e. one of the wikis has stopped accepting edits, it will no longer let you search the sites). And the community of users and Alfresco programmers on their forums are not particularly active or responsive. Any thoughts? Jay – while we are waiting for the client roll-out, we have been beta-testing our own Alfresco Share platform for the project. The Labs version seems to have better functionality than the Enterprise version, but it is really buggy. Parts of the sites seems to break at random (i.e. one of the wikis has stopped accepting edits, it will no longer let you search the sites). And the community of users and Alfresco programmers on their forums are not particularly active or responsive. Any thoughts?

]]> By: Dan Keldsen http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Dan Keldsen Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:16:39 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-337 Jay - thanks for the response, much appreciated. Lines up with my sense as well. Neither good nor bad news, simply that the general focus is internal facing, more ECM than WCM. Best, Dan Jay – thanks for the response, much appreciated. Lines up with my sense as well. Neither good nor bad news, simply that the general focus is internal facing, more ECM than WCM.

Best,
Dan

]]> By: Jay Hariani http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Jay Hariani Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:34:48 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-336 Dan, my sense is that Alfresco WCM is still more closely integrated with their old interface - you don't see much of it in Share except for the ability to publish blog posts internally and externally. In regards to where the it gets positioned, I'd say that Alfresco lends its self especially well to the role of an internal platform. The flexibility of the tool allows it to take on some fairly one-off internal processes, approval routings, etc. The social media features that they've added in Share push it even further in this direction. Dan, my sense is that Alfresco WCM is still more closely integrated with their old interface – you don’t see much of it in Share except for the ability to publish blog posts internally and externally.

In regards to where the it gets positioned, I’d say that Alfresco lends its self especially well to the role of an internal platform. The flexibility of the tool allows it to take on some fairly one-off internal processes, approval routings, etc. The social media features that they’ve added in Share push it even further in this direction.

]]> By: Dan Keldsen http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Dan Keldsen Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:09:08 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-335 Jay - your sense for the WCM side of Alfresco's capabilities? And further, are you seeing Alfresco use within your clients as purely inward-facing (intranets?) or customer-facing? (or some combo of course - but primary use cases are my interest) Cheers, Dan Jay – your sense for the WCM side of Alfresco’s capabilities? And further, are you seeing Alfresco use within your clients as purely inward-facing (intranets?) or customer-facing? (or some combo of course – but primary use cases are my interest)

Cheers,
Dan

]]> By: Jay Hariani http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-306 Jay Hariani Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:42:56 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-306 I'm a big fan of Confluence - I worked to deploy it at my firm. But, the client's requirement in this case was more around managing a large set of Word, Excel, PDF and image documents, and less around creating content online (where Confluence excels). SharePoint + Confluence may have fit the bill, but wasn't looked at specifically. I’m a big fan of Confluence – I worked to deploy it at my firm. But, the client’s requirement in this case was more around managing a large set of Word, Excel, PDF and image documents, and less around creating content online (where Confluence excels). SharePoint + Confluence may have fit the bill, but wasn’t looked at specifically.

]]> By: Saqib Ali http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Saqib Ali Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:34:41 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-299 In understand that Sharepoint might be an overkill for some businesses, but there are other collaboration suite (e.g. Confluence) that have connectors for Sharepoint. Was an analysis performed to compare these alternate opensource solutions? I am new to this area, and am looking for a collaboration suite (wiki, blog, bookmarking etc) for a non-profit organization with minimal IT support. Your guidance will be appreciated. In understand that Sharepoint might be an overkill for some businesses, but there are other collaboration suite (e.g. Confluence) that have connectors for Sharepoint. Was an analysis performed to compare these alternate opensource solutions?

I am new to this area, and am looking for a collaboration suite (wiki, blog, bookmarking etc) for a non-profit organization with minimal IT support.

Your guidance will be appreciated.

]]> By: Jay Hariani http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Jay Hariani Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:02:37 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-273 Hi Austin - Sure. The client was very positive about the way the product's capabilities and ease of use. The biggest challenge will be overcoming the organizational issues related to increasing transparency and knowledge sharing. They are moving forward with the implementation - the implementation is slated to start around the first of the year. They felt like it met the vast majroity of their needs. Since they were expecting MOSS-esq functionality, and Alfresco provides SharePoint's features as a subset of their overall feature set, it got close. One of the compromises with Alfresco is that, although it provides SharePoint client support, SharePoint developers can't develop against the platform. This will be a shift for any organization that has invested a significant amount of money in building applications that run on top of SharePoint. The larges technical challenges will be getting Active Directory integration to work and integrating Alfresco's internal search with other enterprise search products, at least in my opinion. Hi Austin – Sure. The client was very positive about the way the product’s capabilities and ease of use. The biggest challenge will be overcoming the organizational issues related to increasing transparency and knowledge sharing.

They are moving forward with the implementation – the implementation is slated to start around the first of the year.

They felt like it met the vast majroity of their needs. Since they were expecting MOSS-esq functionality, and Alfresco provides SharePoint’s features as a subset of their overall feature set, it got close.

One of the compromises with Alfresco is that, although it provides SharePoint client support, SharePoint developers can’t develop against the platform. This will be a shift for any organization that has invested a significant amount of money in building applications that run on top of SharePoint.

The larges technical challenges will be getting Active Directory integration to work and integrating Alfresco’s internal search with other enterprise search products, at least in my opinion.

]]> By: austin wheelock http://www.e2oh.com/2008/10/27/alfresco-share-heart-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-272 austin wheelock Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:15:40 +0000 http://www.e2oh.com/?p=66#comment-272 Thanks for sharing more about the Alfresco beta you implemented recently. Can you offer up the response from the client? Are they moving forward with this implementation? Does it meet all their needs? Were there compromises in functionality? What were the gotchas in Alfresco's product, if any? What was the biggest challenge technically (not user related)? Thanks for sharing more about the Alfresco beta you implemented recently. Can you offer up the response from the client? Are they moving forward with this implementation? Does it meet all their needs? Were there compromises in functionality? What were the gotchas in Alfresco’s product, if any? What was the biggest challenge technically (not user related)?

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