Build Best Publishing Platform with Drupal Alfresco Integrated Solution

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

CIGNEX Datamatics Confidential www.cignex.com

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


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



Rapid Automated Powerful Integrated Dynamic Open Source

Content Management & Publishing

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CIGNEX Datamatics’ RAPIDO Content Management & Publishing Solution

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Flexible Robust Backend

Lightweight High Performance

Frontend



Alfresco is great at

• 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


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


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

– http://drupal.org/project/cmis_views

• Drupal Alfresco Project

– Drupal 6

– Works with Alfresco 2.x & 3.x

– Uses SOAP

– http://drupal.org/project/alfresco

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http://drupal.org/project/cmis_views





RAPIDO Content Flow

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Automated Content Management & Publishing Workflow

Intranets, Extranets, Commerce, Partner/Vendor Portals,

Media Publishing Sites, Event Publishing Sites, Mobile Sites


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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Share Configuration

Micro Sites

Themes

Analytics

Site Administrators, External Users

Content Authors, Internal

Users

Visitors

Integration

Workflow Interface

BPM Engine


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

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Drupal CMS

Alfresco Share


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

• Integration Flexibility – MSOffice, iWork, Google, Adobe

– Analytics

• Google Analytics

• SiteCatalyst

– SEO & Social Media

– 12+ KickApps components

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Speed

• Faster Search – Content/Article

– Authors/Publishers

• Performance – Page load time: From 6 sec to 2 sec

• Content Approval & Publishing – Across various domains & microsites

– Advanced BPM workflows

• Content Management – Automated 3

rd party RSS publishing

– Content tagging using Open Calais

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Simplicity

• Content Categorization & Versioning

– Domain/Site

– User/Publisher

• Security

– Meta-data level (i.e. field level)

– User roles & permission

• Ease of Creation

– Articles/Forms

– Authors/Publishers

– Content reusability

• 35+ publishing templates

• Reports

– Most viewed

– Most accessed

• Commodity Hardware

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Superior User Experience

• Visitor – Faster page load time

– Easy to find content

– Multi-lingual support

– Community collaboration

– Mobile-ready sites

• Admin – Easy to manage all sites through a single window

– Field level/meta data level security

• Authors – Structured workflow & publishing process

– Smart tag generation using Open Calais

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About CIGNEX Datamatics

A subsidiary of Datamatics Global Services Limited

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What Does CIGNEX Datamatics Do?

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Since 2000, delivering Open Source

solutions for the enterprise through

adoption and integration to:

• Address business goals

• Increase business velocity

• Lower the cost of doing business

• Reduce TCO

• Gain competitive advantage

Portal Solutions Content

Solutions

Big Data Analytics Solutions

400+ Open Source Solutions

450+ Open Source Experts

200+ Open Source Integrations

12+ Books on Open Source

5000+ Community Contributions

Offices : America | India | UK | Europe | Singapore | Australia


Where We Can Help You

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SOLUTIONS

Managed Cloud Services Develop • Deploy • Manage

VAR/Annual Product Subscription Liferay • Alfresco • Cloudera Hadoop • MongoDB

Extended Development Center Center of Excellence

UI • Development • Integration • Customization • Migration • Testing • Training • Support (24*7)

User eXperience Platform

Portals Liferay, Drupal, JBoss,

ZK, HTML5,

MuleSoft

• Intranet • Extranet • EAI • SOA

• Social Collaboration

• Big Data Portal • Mobile Portal

Enterprise Content Management

Content Alfresco, Adobe CQ,

Drupal, Magento,

JBoss, Moodle, Ephesoft,

Liferay

• WCM • DM • RM • CMS • DAM

• e-Commerce • e-Learning • ERP • Imaging Solutions

SERVICES

Making Data Work

Big Data Analytics

Hadoop Ecosystem,

MongoDB, Neo4j, Pentaho,

Talend, Solr, Jaspersoft

• Data Integration

• Information Delivery

• Data Analysis

• Enterprise Search

Enterprise Mobility Strategy • Mobile UX • App Development • MEAP/MDM


Alfresco & Drupal Practice

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Team Size : 100+ Projects : 115+

• Alfresco Platinum Partner (US) & Gold Partner (RoW)

• Acquia “Ready” partner

• Alfresco Recognition

• 2010 - Alfresco Partner of the Year Award

• 2008 - Best North American implementation of

the year

• 2007 - WCM implementation of the year

• Community contributions, Accelerators

• 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


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

– Gap Analysis

– Recommendations/Roadmap

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Visit: www.cignex.com/freeassessment or Email: [email protected]

http://www.cignex.com/freeassessment

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For any questions please contact : [email protected]

Thank You. Any Questions ?

Making Open Source Work

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More …. Success Stories

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Portal Migration to Alfresco & Drupal

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E-Governance Portal with Flexible UI, Dynamic Forms,

Huge Backend Repository, Workflows and Notifications


Integrated Solution for Insurance Portal

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Portlet/ service Container

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Portlet API

Portlet API

Oracle

User Mgmt.

Email

Drupal Modules

Custom Modules

Forums/Events

Content Mgmt.

Blocks & Menu

Taxonomy

Templeting

MySQL

Drupal Core

Syndication Localization

Business Users

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External Feeds (AFP, PA Sports,

Others)

9Group Assets HTML, Images (Dreamweaver,

Other tools)

Hard Disk MySQL LDAP/ AD

Shared interfaces

9Group Asset Repository - Alfresco WCM (Staging Area)

Firewall

Static & D

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(Ap

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Assets + Search

(Alfresco Runtime)

9Group CMS Administrators

9 Group Dynamic sites

(Drupal)

Integrated Business Applications/Websites

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External Applications (9Group Info)

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Sports Videos & Prediction

Games (Media Server)

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File System MySQL Database

Membership Security

Shared interfaces

Content Management

Platform (Alfresco WCM)

Integrated Solution for Sports Portal

Web

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Sports Portal

(Drupal)

Firewall

CMS Admins

Ad Server

Sports News

Dynamic Ads

Ad Content

Perform (Videos)

FTP

FTP

Prediction Games

Sports Analytics (Bridge-x)

E-Commerce Engine

Sports Portal Site

External Web Sites

Technology

Build Best Publishing Platform with Drupal Alfresco Integrated Solution