About the Book
This book distils the hands-on approach of the training courses into a concise, practical book. The emphasis is on getting up and running fast and discovering the scope and power of Alfresco 4 incrementally through practical examples. Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help developers to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.This book is designed for experienced users, business owners, or system administrators 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 upfront cost, often without management approval. You need to have a degree of technical confidence, but you do not require specialist system admin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running.Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help you to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.
About the Author :
Munwar Shariff, as a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at CIGNEX Datamatics,brings over 20 years of industry experience and proven technical leadership.He oversees the enterprise architecture solution team and provides strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing technology-based services and solutions. Defining initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of pioneering technologies are his areas of expertise.He is an entrepreneur, open source technologist, and author of the following four technical books:•PloneLive•Implementing Alfresco• Alfresco3 WCM• Alfresco3 ECM. He contributes to the open source community by journaling submissions on open source CMS, and has been a featured speaker at AIIM USA, JBoss World,DAM Conference, Plone Conference, Linux World, Gilbane, CTC, Yahoo OSCMS, Saudi Government, and CA World.Munwar has also served on board at the Plone Foundation and is currently a board member at CIGNEX Datamatics. Snehal Shah has served as project manager and technical leader to various engineering teams in CIGNEX Datamatics to provide solutions for customers around the world. He works as a Senior Consultant with 8+ years of experience in the areas of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Portal Implementation, and Integration using various open source technologies. For the past 3+ years at CIGNEX Datamatics, he has rolled out various Alfresco deployments for Document Management, Web Content Management, and Alfresco Share. He was involved in project management activities, architecture decisions along with lead architects, and development of complex modules. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from the Deemed University, DDIT, India. He was also involved as Technical Reviewer for two books - “Alfresco 3 Cookbook” and 'Alfresco Share'. Rajesh R Avatani leads the Alfresco Practice Lead in CIGNEX DATAMATICS. He has a Masters degree in Computer Application. He has around 10+ years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked with companies like CARITOR, I-FLEX, and CAPEGIMINI.He is well versed with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle and has strong hands-on experience in leading and implementing Java, J2EE, Object Oriented Architecture based projects, and Alfresco based ECM Solutions. He has around 5 years of experience in Alfresco. He has mainly worked on Alfresco integration projects as a Technical Architect and Project Manager, in other terms, as a Techno Manager.He has worked on projects where Alfresco was integrated with Liferay, Drupal, and other web applications. He has also implemented the Contract Lifecycle Management System developed on Alfresco. He has successfully implemented Alfresco based ECM solutions for various industries into healthcare, finance, insurance, banking, education, and so on. Jayesh Prajapati is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. He has extensive experience in implementing Enterprise Web Applications using J2EE technologies. For the past six years, at CIGNEX Datamatics, he has rolled out numerous Alfresco deployments wo Vandana Pal is a software engineer and author. She currently works as senior consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics.
She has extensive experience working with Enterprise Digital Asset Management and Content Management Systems. She has worked with various deployments of Alfresco in various domains, such as media, finance, and healthcare, for different organizations across the world. She has hands-on experience working with architecture design, performance tuning, security implementation, integration, and the orchestration of complex workflows in Alfresco.
She has more than 7 years of experience in software engineering. Her journey in this field began when she started working with different open source technologies and found them interesting. She holds a bachelors of engineering degree in information technology from Gujarat University, India.
Vandana has also coauthored Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation. Vinita Choudhary is a senior consultant at CIGNEX. She has extensive experience in working in a variety of environments with cross-functional, multi-cultural teams as a business analyst and has provided feedback on usability and functional gaps in process flows and proposed solutions. She has re-organized existing repository of documentation, written guidelines for document creation, filing and change control, wrote reference and training material for software developers and published the same. She is involved in providing presales support to the sales team and has worked on process streamlining for the company and various documentation aspects. Vinita holds a Masters in Computer Applications degree from Gujarat University, India. Amita Bhandari is a senior consultant at CIGNEX. As a senior developer, she has rolled out numerous Alfresco deployments world-wide. She has extensive experience in implementing Enterprise Web Applications using J2EE technologies such as JSP, Servlets, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, Web Scripts and MVC Frameworks. She has worked with clients in media and gaming, healthcare and e-governance. She trained many students in Java and advanced Java technologies. She holds a Masters in Computer Applications from Rajasthan University, India. Pallika Majmudar
