Munwar Shariff is an experienced software trainer for CIGNEX Technologies Inc. He has trained many users, administrators, and developers in Alfresco and many other CMS systems. This book distils the hands-on approach of his training courses into a concise, practical book. The emphasis is on getting up and running fast and discovering the scope and power of Alfresco 3 incrementally through practical examples. This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users, and business owners 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. The book assumes a degree of technical confidence but does not require specialist system administration or developer skills to get a basic system up and running. Alfresco is particularly suitable for IT consultants who want or need to set up a flexible enterprise content management system for their clients, be that for demonstration, development, or as a mission-critical platform. This book gets you to that result quickly and effectively. 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.
Amita Bhandari
Amita Bhandari is a 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, EJB, and MVC Frameworks.
She has worked with clients in media and gaming, healthcare, and e-governance. She has trained many students in Java and advanced Java technologies. She holds a Masters in Computer Applications from Rajasthan University, India.
Munwar Shariff
Munwar Shariff is the CTO and VP of Business Development at CIGNEX. CIGNEX is the leading provider of open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for businesses and government agencies.
He has worked as the chief architect and manager of engineering teams for 15 years in the areas of system software, Internet applications and mobile commerce applications for customers in the United States, Japan, Germany, and India.
He is an expert in Content Management Systems (CMS). Since co-founding CIGNEX in late 2000, he has successfully delivered more than 50 CMS applications using various open source technologies. He has written a number of articles on open source CMS, he is an experienced trainer, and a frequent speaker at conferences related to this topic.
Munwar earned his MS in Digital Electronics and Advanced Communications from REC Surathkal, India. Munwar is the co-author of the book on Plone Open Source Content Management System called Plone Live.
Pallika Majumdar
Pallika Majmudar is a consultant at CIGNEX Technologies. She is very experienced in Java/J2EE domain including frameworks such as Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Web services, and Web scripts.
She has worked on various CMS applications for customers in United States, Hong Kong, and India. She has implemented Alfresco for clients across verticals like Media, Healthcare, Hi-Tech, and Communications. Pallika earned her Masters in Computer Application degree from Gujarat University, India.
Vinita Choudhary
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.
She has re-organized existing documentation repositories, written guidelines for document creation, filing and change control, written reference material for software developers, and published the same. She is involved in providing pre-sales support to the sales team and has worked on process streamlining for the company and various documentation aspects.
