Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
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About the Authors

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:

  • Plone Live
  • 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.

I take this opportunity to thank Doug Dennerline (CEO of Alfresco) and Paul Anthony (CEO of CIGNEX Datamatics) for maintaining the partnership for the past 8 years. Our consulting team at CIGNEX Datamatics presented us with the various flavors of Alfresco implementations that we would not have possibly imagined. We used those throughout the book and we are thankful to them. Special thanks to our marketing team - Nirav Shah and Madhuram Yadav for the motivation and support.

Snehal Shah has extensive experience in implementing Enterprise Web Applications using J2EE technologies. At CIGNEX Datamatics, he has rolled out numerous Alfresco deployments worldwide in the areas of Document, Web Content Management, and Share. He has also worked on applications based on Liferay and Moodle products. Prior to CIGNEX, he has worked on various J2EE-based solutions using cutting-edge technologies.

He has worked with clients in the education, legal, and marketing domain across the world. He has worked on defining the architecture for various projects that involve multiple product integrations. In his previous organizations, he was involved in deciding technology paths of the organization and involved in various internal trainings in the technical part.

He holds a Bachelor in Computer Engineering from Deemed University, DDIT, India. He has also worked as a technical reviewer for the books titled Alfresco 3 Cookbook and Alfresco Share.

I would like to thank my parents for allowing me to realize my own potential. Many thanks to my lovely wife Payal, who always encouraged and supported me to achieve this goal. My main source of motivation came from my little niece Mahi, who taught me to keep on trying for the goal we have set for ourselves despite many failures, which encouraged me to take up this challenge and fulfill it.

Rajesh R Avatani leads the Alfresco Practice at CIGNEX Datamatics. He has earned his Masters in Computer Application from Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot, India

He is well versed with all the 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.

I would like to thank Munwar Shariff for giving me the opportunity to write this book.

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 worldwide in the areas of Document and Web Content Management. He has worked on Performance-tuning projects where Alfresco was deployed in clustered and load balanced environments. He has also implemented Integrated Content Management Portal (ICMP) where Alfresco WCM is used as the central repository and Liferay as Portal. He has also implemented Alfresco WCM to serve Flex-based portals. He has worked with clients in the travel and hospitality, healthcare, academic, and high-tech domains. He has been involved in providing training on Alfresco Document Management.

Jayesh holds an MS in Computer Applications and Information technologies from the North Gujarat University, India

I would like to thank Mr. Munwar Shariff, Chief Technology Officer, and Mr. Manish Sheladia, Co-founder and Global Head – Strategic Accounts, at CIGNEX Datamatics for their encouragement and continuous support. I would also thank my consulting team, especially Faizan Shaikh and Yogesh Prajapati, at CIGNEX Datamatics who helped me implement the various examples found in this book.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my wife Hetal Prajapati, my families and friends. Without their support, this would not have been possible.

Vandana Pal is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has more than 4 years of experience in the IT industry. She has an extensive experience in implementing Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Web Content Management, and System Integration. Vandana holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from the Gujarat University.

She started her career with open source products such as Alfresco and Liferay. She has hands-on experience in implementing Alfresco-based solutions for various domains such as media, healthcare, and finance. She has extensively explored and implemented Complex workflow, UI customization, web scripts, and performance tuning in Alfresco. She has provided in-house training for Alfresco. She also has an experience of teaching Engineering students for a few months.

I would like to thank Munwar Shariff, Chief Technology Officer, and Manish Sheladia at CIGNEX Datamatics for their encouragement and continuous support. I am thankful to the consulting team at CIGNEX Datamatics who helped me with real-life examples implemented with Alfresco. I would also like to express my gratitude to my family and friends for all their support throughout.

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 is a consultant at CIGNEX Technologies. She is very experienced in Java/J2EE domain including the frameworks such as Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Web services, and Web scripts.

She has worked on various CMS applications for the customers in United States, Hong Kong and India. She has implemented Alfresco for clients across verticals like Media, Healthcare, Hi-tech and Communications. Pallika has earned her Masters in Computer Application degree from Gujarat University, India.

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