topic Re: Is Alfresco for me? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-alfresco-for-me/m-p/191697#M144827 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>So many points…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Yes you can use Alfresco as a back end repository and use as many or as few features that are useful for your requirement.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can also put your own UI on top of alfresco and there are several different api's available to connect your UI with Alfresco.&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'll leave it to others to comment on complex workflows and muti-page forms.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>One statement that concerns me is that you would use your own schema for MIS reporting.&nbsp;&nbsp; Regardless of whether you eventually&nbsp; choose to persist&nbsp; your data within the alfresco database or your own schema it may be prudent to transfer your data from the OLTP database to a separate reporting database, typically the indexing and transactional requirements will be very different.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This consideration is not specific to Alfresco and of course depends upon the volume and nature of your MIS reporting requirement.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:21:01 GMT mrogers 2008-10-08T09:21:01Z Is Alfresco for me? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-alfresco-for-me/m-p/191696#M144826 I have started evaluating Alfresco for my project for a Goverment Agency .Here are my requirements 1) Document managemet (quite a huge nos. of documents to be uploaded/maintained)2) Record Management3) Very complex workflows 4) Metadata searching 5) NO web content Management In addition to above req Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:11:35 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-alfresco-for-me/m-p/191696#M144826 ronak_shah44 2008-10-08T06:11:35Z Re: Is Alfresco for me? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-alfresco-for-me/m-p/191697#M144827 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>So many points…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Yes you can use Alfresco as a back end repository and use as many or as few features that are useful for your requirement.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can also put your own UI on top of alfresco and there are several different api's available to connect your UI with Alfresco.&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'll leave it to others to comment on complex workflows and muti-page forms.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>One statement that concerns me is that you would use your own schema for MIS reporting.&nbsp;&nbsp; Regardless of whether you eventually&nbsp; choose to persist&nbsp; your data within the alfresco database or your own schema it may be prudent to transfer your data from the OLTP database to a separate reporting database, typically the indexing and transactional requirements will be very different.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This consideration is not specific to Alfresco and of course depends upon the volume and nature of your MIS reporting requirement.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:21:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-alfresco-for-me/m-p/191697#M144827 mrogers 2008-10-08T09:21:01Z