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Does Alfresco Share need an iPhone interface?
Posted on February 26th, 2009 3 commentsAlfresco ist currently designing an iPhone client for their collaboration platform Share. Thus I get an iPod touch from Alfresco as price for winning the Alfresco Developer Challenge a year ago I’m very interested in this stuff.
Here are the wireframes of the user stories at slideshare.
But I’m not sure if this is a real must for Share…I’m not sure if the user NEED this client. Of course Alfresco will gain a lot of marketing momentum offering an “iPhone-Enterprise-Collaboration” app. Does Sharepoint have sth. like that
BUT, from my point of view there are other 1st prio features enterprise customers really need:
- supporting custom Types, Aspects and Metadata (docLib & search)
- group based site membership (& more permission stuff like, SiteCreatorGroup etc.)
- combination of Share & MS Sharepoint protocol usage within MS Office
- Support of Rules inside of Share
Most of these features are part of the Alfresco roadmap. Specially the support of custom types & aspects within Share is a real MUST.
I’m doing ECM-Projects since a while and I cannot remember a project where we used only basis types and metadata.
To sum up:
It’s cool that Alfresco is always developing new stuff, that’s why I love it. But from my point Share is lacking some features which should be done before going onwards with other new apps.


