Alfresco Awards Cignex As Partner Of The Year For North America And Asia Pacific

Online, April 14, 2011 (Newswire.com) - This award recognizes the contribution made by CIGNEX in helping clients across North America & Asia-Pacific achieve massive reduction (more than 50%) in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of their ECM implementations by adopting Alfresco. The award was presented to CIGNEX at the annual Alfresco Partner Conference in Orlando, Florida on 25th March.

"With over 50 Alfresco implementations globally, CIGNEX has been a key Alfresco partner since 2005. CIGNEX continues to drive best-in-class solutions and this award highlights their innovation and business velocity across North America & Asia-Pacific," highlighted Todd Barr, Chief Marketing Officer, Alfresco.

CIGNEX is a global Platinum Partner and certified training partner to Alfresco. The CIGNEX team has authored 3 books to share the best practices of deploying Alfresco ECM.

Amit Babaria, President of Americas and Executive VP for Sales & Marketing, CIGNEX commented "2010 was a very exciting year for CIGNEX. We deployed challenging solutions across ECM & Portals for leading enterprises in North America. The recognition from Alfresco as the Partner of the Year follows a similar recognition from Liferay, cementing CIGNEX's position as the leading Open Source service provider."

"We are very excited that CIGNEX has been recognized for the contribution to the growth of Alfresco in the Asia-Pacific region. Enterprises across the region have been exploring viable Open Source alternatives to traditional proprietary software to improve productivity & reduce TCO. CIGNEX & Alfresco have helped clients on both counts," said Paul Anthony, President, CIGNEX.

About CIGNEX
CIGNEX Global Holding Corporation (www.cignex.com) is the global leader in commercial Open Source & SAP Connect solutions for over 10 years providing solutions across Web Content Management, Portals & Social Collaboration, e-commerce, Digital Asset Management, Documents & Records Management, Business Process Management, Business Intelligence, ERP & CRM and SOA. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with offices in Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Texas, New Jersey, United Kingdom, India, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand and 400+ employees; CIGNEX has helped in improving client profitability by delivering commercial Open Source solutions to over 200 global customers.

About Alfresco

Alfresco is the leading open platform for social content management. The platform combines the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform, at a tenth of the cost of legacy ECM solutions. The Alfresco content platform uses a flexible architecture to provide document management, web content management, records management and social collaboration to customers and partners in 55 countries. Headquartered in London, Alfresco was founded in 2005 by a team of content management veterans including the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell.

For further information, please contact:

Amit Babaria
President & EVP - Americas, CIGNEX
[email protected]

Gretchen Miller
Director, Global PR & Social Media
Alfresco
[email protected]