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Zia Consulting to Sponsor and Present at Alfresco DevCon 2018
Alfresco DevCon 2018 will bring together top developers and industry experts to discuss the latest in enterprise content management. Zia Consulting has signed on as a sponsor of Alfresco DevCon 2018, January 16–18 in Lisbon, Portugal. This international conference is...

Getting Up and Running With the New ADF Example: Alfresco Content App ASAP
This week, Alfresco released an example Application Developer Framework (ADF) project called Alfresco Content App. While there are still some very important features missing like advanced search capabilities and a solid metadata editing experience, there are already...

Tips for a Healthy Alfresco Implementation: Hosting Environment
Over the past eight years, Zia has delivered many successful Alfresco health checks. Because every environment is unique, as are the desired outcomes from the analysis we perform, there is no single solution to apply across the board. However, there are some issues we...

Managing a Remote Alfresco Instance Using Local jconsole Over SSH
Often times, we would like to use jconsole to manage a remote Alfresco server. If we can SSH to the server, it is possible to tunnel the jconsole connection through SSH. If the remote server has an X server it is possible to use the `-X` flag to SSH to tunnel X...

Video: Capturing Digital Transformation
Many people merely think of capture as a means of turning paper into electronic documents. At this time, around 75% of companies are not paper free. Collaboration is still a part of the digital world and people must be able to process documents and drive business...

MBA 2017 Recap
We’re excited to have had the MBA 2017 Annual Expo in Colorado. We had so many visitors to our booth where they played our Process is Right games, congratulations to our winners! They also saw a demo of our mortgage document automation solution, updated for TILA-REPSA...

Poor Man’s Cruft Removal for Spring Based Projects
You've inherited a long running Alfresco development project. Years of code changes have created an accretion of unused classes from bulk additions of reused packages, code changes leaving bits and pieces behind, etc. You're pretty sure that you're spending a lot of...

Using Spring Security to Authenticate Users With Active Directory
I was recently working on a project where there was a need to create custom web services that would connect to Alfresco and other back end systems. For a variety of reasons, it was decided to use Spring Boot as the framework for implementing these web services. One of...

Signature Detection with Ephesoft and Recostar Design Studio
Use Case: A signature is a simple, yet important, component of a legal document. A single pen stroke can be the deciding factor making an agreement enforceable or powerless. When automatically processing documents, signature detection provides valuable information...

Join us in Denver for the 2017 Mortgage Bankers Association Expo
We’re excited to have the 2017 Mortgage Bankers Association Expo right in our own backyard October 22–25 at the Colorado Convention Center. At our booth, we will have demonstrations of our document automation solutions, updated for TILA-RESPA documents. Visitors to...