In 2012, the Executive Office of the President of USA, Barack Obama issued a memorandum that defined the end of the road for paper-based workflows. The NARA 2019/2022 Deadline, as it’s known in the industry, expects government agencies to fully convert to digital...
While looking for a replacement for an Alfresco Workdesk solution for our client at USDA, I heard from a co-worker that Alfresco had released their next generation UI Framework, aka Alfresco Development Framework (ADF), to replace their Share framework. After...
It’s no secret that cyber security threats loom over federal agencies. According to the report the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued 2 months ago, three out of four federal agencies are at risk from cyber attacks. From 96 federal agencies that...
Background Our company is currently engaged in a series of projects that require us to secure and harden our solutions based on requirements put forth by various organizational and recognized standards ranging from the Department Of Defense (DOD) Secure Technical...
In this video Deja Nichols walks you through creating a legal hold within Alfresco Records Management. For more information about Alfresco Records Management, contact our experts today.
In this video, Armedia Records Management expert Deja Nichols will show you how to use various search features within Alfresco Records Management. Looking for help with your Alfresco Records Management solution? Contact our experts today to learn how we can help!
In this video, Armedia Records Management specialist, Deja Nichols, will walk you through the Un-filed Record features within Alfresco Record Management. Interested in learning more about how Armedia can help you with Alfresco Record Management? Contact us today to...
In today's video blog, Deja Nichols will walk you through how to create a rule within Alfresco.
In today's video blog, Armedia's Records Management specialist, Deja Nichols, will show you how to create a disposition schedule in Alfresco Records Management. Stay tuned for more videos!
In this video, Armedia's Records Management expert, Deja Nichols, gives you an overview of the Alfresco Records Management Module. Stay tuned for more from our Alfresco Records Management video blog series!
In this video, Armedia's Records Management expert, Deja Nichols, gives you an overview of the Alfresco Records Management Module. Stay tuned for more from our Alfresco Records Management video blog series!
Recently our team has been asked several questions about how to best utilize Alfresco Records Management for their various government and business needs. In response to that, our in-house Records Management specialist, Deja Nichols, will be posting a series of...
I recently needed to make a change to have Alfresco 4's Activiti call an object managed by Spring instead of a class that is called during execution. Couple of reasons for this: A new enhancement was necessary to access a custom database table, so I needed to inject...
In the 1st part of this blog “Alfresco Records Management; An Approach to Implementation - PART 1,” I went over the business case and planning phase for a medium-sized agency that wanted a seamless records management configuration, leveraging Alfresco’ s Enterprise...
Implementing Records and Information Management (RIM) can be a juggling act. Many record managers are faced with several major issues in applying RIM best practices to their businesses. In this two part blog, I want to go over how I helped implement a...
Enterprise Alfresco 4.1.2 has two methods that control content and metadata indexing to facilitate search capabilities that apply to all content nodes. In this blog, we will explore the two methods, experiment with changing out-of-the-box capability, and verify those...
In case you missed today's webinar in which we walked through our ArkCase solution framework with Alfresco Records Management, here are the slides from the presentation!! Acm and seamless records management integration webinar 3-4-14 from Armedia LLC ArkCase is...
Part of a solution that is being implemented for a current client involves implementing a custom retention framework. Before you ask, no, Alfresco RM was not chosen. Now that question is out of the way, testing retention is painful. The reason why I say this,...
Reporting is on every manager’s mind. “How can I provide the real-time facts about the progress of my department?,” “How do I get the funding I need?,” “How can I be sure changes in my organization are getting done correctly?” These are some of the questions we have...
Thank you to everyone who turned out for our presentation this morning at Content.gov!! In case you missed the presentation, here are our slides from the event. For more information about ArkCase, CLICK HERE to learn about our upcoming webinar! Content gov2014 armedia...
In my last blog, I introduced a complete backup and restore strategy for Alfresco and a custom application that has synchronized data (Alfresco holds repository documents, Application DB holds application specific data). PROBLEM BACKGROUND: Another issue I ran into...
It's been a long time (OK, a few years) since I last wrote about ArkCase. What's been happening since then? We wrote the ArkCase framework using Spring and Spring MVC. It was successful: we supported a few customers. One customer was very large and required many...
Recently, while working with a client I went through the course of understanding their business processes. What transpired was a fairly complex process. It started out simple: Complete form, submit to manager. Manager reviews, either rejects for more...
In today’s information-centric age, government organizations face the daunting challenge of offering enhanced services to citizens while simultaneously improving efficiencies and cutting costs. Let’s face it, whether you’re talking about the Affordable Care Act, the...
The ability to search and finding the right document is one of the biggest challenges in the ECM industry. The volume of electronic documents grows really quickly and often is stored into a number of different systems and repositories. One solution to this is to use...
For federal record managers, the importance of the DoD 5015 Chapter 2 Certification is widely understood as the de facto records management standard in North America. It defines the basic requirements that must be met by records management applications acquired by the...
Did you miss our recent presentation at Alfresco Content.gov? No worries! We've posted the slides here as well as additional information about the use of Alfresco within the Federal Government. Armedia fda cstar doc man_content gov_alfresco_20130305 from Armedia LLC...
In case you missed us at Alfresco DevCon San Jose, Here is a copy of our presentation. This presentation focused on illustrating how Alfresco and other open source technologies can be leveraged for government agencies.
In our last blog we discussed the value and inherent benefits of integrating Alfresco, the open source enterprise content management platform, and Ephesoft, the open source intelligent document capture solution, in an enterprise solution. In this blog, let’s look at...
Over the past several years there has been a significant growth of interest around paperless office initiatives, as well as usage of enterprise-wide Records/ Document management solutions. However, a vast number of office-related tasks are still being conducted on...
Today’s Government IT sector is challenged with overcoming obstacles that have never been faced before. When the Freedom of Information Act was enacted in 1966, no one considered the monolithic quantity of information that would need to be accessed or the complexity...
The excitement is palpable. The benefits of a Drupal/ Alfresco integration are considerable, both from a developer and an end-user's perspective. And users of one of these open source systems have already recognized this. So, what are the two system's at play in this...
In our last blog, we talked about the benefits of case management. Now lets look at a presentation showing how the Armedia team implemented a Case Management solution. This presentation shows how Armedia implemented an open source case management solution to help...
Did you miss Alfresco's Content.gov event today in Washington, DC? Dont worry!! Here are the slides from Armedia's presentation. https://www.slideshare.net/ArmediaLLC/armedia-nci-content-govalfresco20120124v10 For more information about ArkCase CLICK...
Without a doubt, one of the biggest challenges government it solutions have had to overcome in recent years is handling FOIA requests. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is the law which requires federal agencies to provide access to documents and information that...
Over the past 12 months (or maybe longer) I have been involved with 2 separate projects involved in Alfresco integration with Daeja ViewONE Pro. Daeja ViewONE Pro is a java applet designed to allow users to apply annotations to any* document within a document...
A: To uncover my hidden assumptions! Let me tell you a story about SharePoint, Alfresco, design choices, and downloading files. My Java-based application uses SharePoint 2010 to store files. CMIS is the obvious tool for my app to talk to SP 2010, and in fact, CMIS...
If you asked me three months ago if I enjoy developing to Alfresco’s repository and Share UI (specifically Enterprise 3.3.3), it would have been a frustrated “NO…” -- Not frustration about WANTING to learn a new product, since that is always exciting and challenging,...
When you work for a while in the software you get numbed to “technologies have come and gone...” occasionally though some become commodities and others trend setters. We have seen that with many products like Apache, Tomcat, Lucene, Drupal …etc that have stabilized...
There are well over 35 proprietary document management systems, an astronomical number of homegrown document management systems, and billions of sources for information to come from. As technology changes, new and better features are added to current systems, new...
Have you ever wanted to impart information about a space, but without having to force the user to open a document, or perform a search? A custom view is a portal that can be attached visually to a space. It is a great way to convey information about a space and it's...