Amita Bhandari - Alfresco Share

Amita Bhandari is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has extensive experience in implementing Enterprise Web Applications using J2EE technologies. For the past 5 years at CIGNEX Datamatics, she has rolled out numerous Alfresco deployments world-wide in the areas of Document and Web Content Management.

She has trained many students in advanced Java technologies. She has worked with clients in media, gaming, healthcare, and e-governance. She worked on performance tuning projects, where Alfresco was deployed in a clustered and load balanced environment. She has implemented Single Sign On for easy communication between two systems. She is an experienced trainer on Alfresco.

She holds a Masters in Computer Applications from Rajasthan University, India. She has authored two technical books on open source CMS Alfresco 3 Web Content Management, Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management and has also worked as a Technical Reviewer for the book titled Alfresco 3 Web Services .

Vinita Choudhary is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has extensive experience in working in a variety of environments with cross-functional, multi-cultural teams.

Vinita is a Business Analyst with extensive experience of having provided recommendations for upgrade to accommodate client product and solution offerings in the short and long term, as well as providing a future solution roadmap. She is involved in providing pre-sales support to the sales team and is actively involved in various pre-sales activities. She has gathered experience in working with clients from a variety of cross-functional domains. She has been a keen contributor to the company blog and has also prepared a variety of marketing collaterals like case studies, whitepapers, technical and corporate presentations.

She holds a Masters in Computer Applications degree from Gujarat University, India. She has co-authored two books titled Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management and Alfresco 3 Web Content Management .

Pallika Majmudar is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has strong hands-on experience in Java-based technologies, such as J2EE, Object-oriented Architecture and Design Patterns, Frameworks, web services, and web scripts.

She has architected and led many content management projects for customers in the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India. She has implemented Alfresco based solutions for clients across verticals like media, healthcare, hi-tech, and communications.

She has earned a Masters degree in Computer Applications from Gujarat University, India. She has co-authored two books on Alfresco titled Alfresco 3 Web Content Management and Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management .

We thank our CEO Paul Anthony and all the employees of CIGNEX Datamatics for making this book a reality. We would like to thank Manish Sheladia, Chief Delivery officer; Munwar Shariff, Chief Technology Officer at CIGNEX Datamatics and Veilumuthu Ramanathan, Vice President - Delivery for their encouragement and continuous support.

Our consulting team at CIGNEX Datamatics helped us with real-time examples which provided us better user perspective. We are thankful to them. We thank our sales, presales, inside sales and marketing teams for giving us an opportunity to provide Alfresco based solutions to many customers.

We sincerely thank and appreciate Usha Iyer, Acquisition Editor at Packt Publishing for giving us the opportunity. We thank Shreerang Deshpande, Lead Technical Editor; Shubhanjan Chatterjee, Project Manager and to the entire team at Packt Publishing. It is a pleasure working with them.

Our special thanks to our families and friends.

Piergiorgio Lucidi is an open source ECM Specialist and a Certified Alfresco Trainer at Sourcesense. Sourcesense is a European open source systems integrator providing consultancy, support and services around key open source technologies.

He works as a Software Engineer and he has 8 years of experience in the areas of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), system integrations, web, and mobile applications. He is an expert in integrating ECM solutions in web and portal applications. He regularly contributes to the Alfresco Community supporting newbie and expert users.

He contributes in the Apache Software Foundation as a Committer of the project Apache ManifoldCF and he is the Project Leader of the CMIS and Alfresco connectors. He is a Project Leader and Committer of the JBoss Community, he contributes to some of the projects of the JBoss portal platform.

He is a speaker at conferences dedicated to Java, Spring Framework, open source products, and technologies.

He is an Author, Technical Reviewer, and an Affiliate Partner at Packt Publishing. He wrote the technical book Alfresco 3 Web Services in collaboration with Ugo Cei. As a Technical Reviewer he also contributed to the book Alfresco 3 Cookbook . As an Affiliate Partner he also writes and publishes book reviews on his website Open4Dev (http://www.open4dev.com/).

I would like to thank Packt Publishing for another great opportunity to work again on a very interesting project about Alfresco.

Adit Patel has done his Master's in Computer Applications. He has successfully handled complex projects for enterprise customers by implementing Enterprise Content Management systems. He has helped many enterprise customers migrate from a proprietary/legacy content management system to a more efficient and scalable enterprise content management system Alfresco. He holds in-depth knowledge and experience of Alfresco architecture and implementations.