About the Alfresco Connector

The BA Insight Alfresco Connector enables users to index and crawl documents from your Alfresco v7.x Content Services on-premise repository using the Alfresco Rest API.

Overview

Alfresco comes in three editions:

  • Alfresco Community Edition is free software, LGPL licensed open source and open standards.

  • It has some important limitations in terms of scalability and availability, since the clustering feature has been removed from the community repository and is only available in the enterprise edition.

  • Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially & proprietary licensed open source, open standards and enterprise scale. Its design is geared towards users who require a high degree of modularity and scalable performance.

  • Alfresco Cloud Edition is the SaaS version of Alfresco.

Features

  • Support of unstructured content, structured data, large documents, and attachments.

  • Very high throughput, supporting large implementations. Many Alfresco customers have millions of documents or even hundreds of millions. Just 1 million documents indexed at 1 document/second would take over 11 days for a full crawl!

  • The architecture minimizes the impact on the source system to ensure there is no impact on the performance Alfresco.

  • Adherence to Alfresco’s security schema, only surfacing the content that users are permitted to see.

  • Alfresco retains the master information and the search index is only a representation. Users work on the original document when they click on search results.

Limitations

  • Filtering by "Aspects" is not supported.