This book is designed for system administrators, and experienced users or developers who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free, many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any up-front cost, often without management approval. This book assumes a degree of technical confidence, but does not require specialist system administration or developer skills in order to get a basic system up and running.

Alfresco is particularly suitable for IT consultants who want to or need to set up a flexible enterprise Content Management System for their clients, whether this is for demonstration, development, or as a mission-critical platform. This book gets you to that result quickly and effectively.

This book also helps business users to make decisions about migrating from an existing proprietary ECM to Alfresco 3.

This book is not a developer's guide. However, various examples in the book will help developers to extend Alfresco's functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.

Although no knowledge of Alfresco is presumed, exposure to HTML, XML, JavaScript, and related web technologies will help users to get the most from this book.