Hopefully, this chapter has given you several ideas about how Alfresco can be used to implement DM, WCM, and custom content-centric applications by walking through examples of each. The details may still be fuzzy, but the goal was to introduce the major components and capabilities of the Alfresco platform.
In this chapter, we discovered in which kind of use case Alfresco is a good fit. The potential and flexibility of Alfresco can be used to solve a variety of different content-related business problems. Then, we introduced the different configuration points that you can use in your organization without writing one line of code. Even if Alfresco provides you a lot of capabilities, we'll discover in the rest of the book how it can be customized and extended based on the fictitious consulting firm that we created called SomeCo. Next we covered the major open source components included in Alfresco, and the different protocols and standards that can be used to integrate Alfresco in your ecosystem.
