Author Archives: Francesco Corti

12 Jun

Alflytics 5.0 Early Access release

Welcome Alflytics!

 

At the past Beecon 2017, the new release (5.0) of the integration between Alfresco and Pentaho has been announced. Together with a rebranding from the previous project named A.A.A.R.

Today Alflytics is completed and released as Early Access version. The enhancements are numerous. Below the main ones:

  • Rebranding from A.A.A.R. to Alflytics.
  • Complete rewrite of the whole solution.
  • HyperSQL, PostgreSql and MySql support.
  • Multi-value properties support.
  • Support for categories and tags analytics.
  • Alfresco custom models support.
  • Does not require any installation or customization on Alfresco.
  • Supports Alfresco v5.2+.
  • Requires Pentaho Analytics platform 7.1.

 

What’s now? Join the Early Access Program

 

Now it’s your turn to use it (check the full manual here), but I would like to invite you to join the Early Access Program to test it in your environment and make it more stable and ready for the GA release.

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05 Dec

How to install Pentaho Business Analytics platform 7

Few weeks ago, close to the annual Pentaho Community Meeting, the Pentaho Team released the brand new Pentaho Suite v7 with a complete restyle of the layout (of course, this is only one of the improvements). This a good opportunity for me to update the step by step tutorial on how to install the Pentaho Business Analytics after the one about the past version 5.

This tutorial describes the default installation using the HSQL database for the security storage. If you want to know how to install it using MySql database instead, I suggest to check into the Official resources or in several articles around the web.

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05 Dec

How to install Pentaho Data Integration 7 (aka Kettle)

Few weeks ago, close to the annual Pentaho Community Meeting, the Pentaho Team released the brand new Pentaho Suite v7 with a complete restyle of the layout (of course, this is only one of the improvements). This a good opportunity for me to update the step by step tutorial on how to install the Pentaho Data Integration (aka Kettle) after the one about the past version 5.

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21 Nov

The simplest Alfresco client using Material Design and Ajax

How is supposed to be the simplest client over Alfresco?

I’m quite sure the answers could vary in number depending on the framework, technology and complexity. In this post is shared an example of possible client over Alfresco REST API, assuming some involved technologies like Google Material Design and Ajax.

Curious to see the source code and cannot wait anymore?

Take a look at the simplest-alfresco-rest-client project on GitHub.

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12 Oct

A.A.A.R. live long and prosper

logo-aaarIt was 2012 when I started to think, and then develop, Alfresco Audit Analytics and Reporting. In few words, the idea was to integrate Alfresco ECM with Pentaho, one of the most famous Open Source Business Intelligence Platform.

Since 2014, A.A.A.R. was released into the official Pentaho Marketplace and today it is at its 4th version, with several succesfull installations and positives feedbacks from both the Alfresco and Pentaho Communities. The counter says that around 20.000 downloads has been done from the Sourceforge repository, in less than three years… not bad, I say!

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As you probably know, A.A.A.R. is completely Free of Charge, and I am (proudly) the principal developer. In other words, A.A.A.R. is a case of success, even if it is not an official solution developed and supported by Alfresco.

Starting from October 2016, I joined Alfresco (as a Company) with the role of Product Evangelist… and this is a nice stuff… but:

Which is the implications for the A.A.A.R. project?
Which is the future of the A.A.A.R. analytics solution?
Will A.A.A.R. became an official Alfresco thing?
Will I continue to support, maintain and evolve A.A.A.R.?

In this post I would like to clarify these questions, to avoid any misunderstanding connected to my new role.

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05 Oct

Being a Product Evangelist at Alfresco

Starting from the 3rd of October, I began a new challenge as Product Evangelist at Alfresco. The role is not a new entry for the famous ECM, because Ole Hejlskov covered it with success for more than one year, with the title of “Developer Evangelist” (tasks and responsibilities are more or less the same). During the on-boarding period, before joining Alfresco, one main question was in my mind:

What a Product Evangelist does in Alfresco?

What a Developer Evangelist generally is?

The confirmation that these questions should be clarified, came when I shared the news with some friends, working as developers. Only few of them knew what a Product or Developer Evangelist does in concrete. Only few of them knew which is the mission of a Product or Developer Evangelist.

To cover this , after studying the few documentation over the web, I started to write this post, sure that, sooner or later, it would be useful for the developers to clarify my role into the Alfresco ecosystem. Last but not least, writing this article, has been useful for me too, to rationalize the challenge, the tasks and the responsibilities.

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05 Sep

Alfresco Development Framework in action

AngularIt was the end of june when the new Alfresco NG2 Components were announced as a new Alfresco Development Framework for developers. Today the framework is on its version 0.3, not mature for production enviroments yet, but very interesting for developers because it introduces an Angular 2 solution, for the development of your Alfresco customized front end.

In this post I would like to share some personal experiences using ADF in practice. I was wondering how the A.D.F. works and how to debug the source code… waiting to understand how to add a custom Angular 2 component. The approach is the same of several posts in the past: a step by step approach to make it work.

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22 Aug

How to setup your Angular 2 development environment with Eclipse on Ubuntu

During the approach of Angular 2 I have found a nice official documentation about the language and how to develop the very first project. On the opposite, no official documentation seems to be developed yet, to describe how to setup the various and possibile Angular 2 development environments, in particular using Eclipse. Ok, Eclipse seems to be not elected as the “best” IDE to develop on Angular 2, but a lot of developers are using it. To cover this need I would like to share in this post, the step-by-step setup of the first Angular 2 project, using the famous IDE.

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