Alfresco Cloud is not Alfresco

[flefoll]

Ok,
Alfresco Cloud is only in Beta, my comments are therefore conditionals,
but I believe Alfresco company knows the weakness of their own product,
The pointed limitations are unfortunately based on a real knowledge of their own product…

1) Alfresco Cloud is not alfresco, it's "Share only".
Do not expect putting some custom webscript, some scripted action or some custom RSS template…

2) Going a little bit further than simple flat document management ?
Not at all, replication, WCM/Web Quick start or media/social export are not available…

3) Google Doc integration ?
I said no…

4) Records management ?
If they decides to put it available, it's well hidden until now…

5) CMIS, SOAP or REST API ?
No, you will not use Alfresco Cloud to feed or to be feed by anything else…

6) Share Surf extension into your own tenancy (sorry, “network” in Alfresco Cloud naming) ?
No, be happy with default client's interface, do not extend or override anything…

I wasn't expecting unrealistic possibilities, like deploying your own custom transformer,
or having the possibility to use my local Share webapp (which should have been possible with an other design, and would have been much more interesting !).
And I really understand why they done these limitations.

Nevertheless, to me, it's exactly as officially claiming their real product is definitively not adapted in its rich features to massive deployment.
No ?

Regards,

Francois

[dgildeh]

Hi everyone,

I'm just catching up on the forum posts here. I wrote a blog on this discussion around the time the first post in this topic was made:

http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/alfresco-in-the-cloud-faq/

The Cloud will evolve into the full featured offering of its own over time, but in the mean time the Cloud has been designed for the following use cases which compliment Alfresco Enterprise with the new Enterprise Sync. connector to extend Alfresco across the firewall, or to be used stand-alone for general collaboration and file sharing:

• B2B collaboration/file sharing


• Mobile device access to content outside the firewall


• Integration with other Cloud services such as Google Apps, and in future Salesforce.com

We will feed in other popular features into the Cloud product over time to meet the demand and use cases users require on the Cloud. However Cloud has to be more 'out of the box' than Enterprise (which can be customised and extended unlike Cloud) so the way we deliver features to users needs to be more use case driven than feature driven.

Thanks,

David

[rdanner]

If you’re thinking about Alfresco Cloud as a simple collaboration application or a simple cloud based content store it’s time to rethink.

http://blogs.rivetlogic.com/rdanner/2013/02/28/alfresco-cloud-is-much-more-than-meets-the-eye/