Zia Consulting Named Alfresco Platinum Partner

System Integrator Reaches Key Milestone Leveraging CMIS-enabled Content Management and Collaboration Solutions from Alfresco

LONDON—January 27, 2010— Alfresco, the open platform for social content management, today announced that Boulder, Colorado-based systems integratorZia Consultinghas achieved Platinum Partner status in recognition of its successes in implementing Alfresco’s enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. With this announcement, Zia joins a prestigious group of 10 platinum integrators in Alfresco’s community of more than 270 channel partners.

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"Zia Consulting is a shining example of the excellence our Platinum Partners bring to each Alfresco-based project and is a worthy recipient of this designation,” said Bill Robinson, vice president of the Americas, Alfresco Software. “With broad experience implementing ECM, collaboration, web publishing, and records management solutions from Alfresco, Zia truly exemplifies what we look for in our partners through their dedication to and involvement in the Alfresco open source community.”

Zia Consulting services a range of markets including the public sector, government, manufacturing, and publishing industries with innovative ECM, WCM, records management, and collaboration solutions built on Alfresco’s open platform for social content management. Zia’s extensive Alfresco experience includes revampingthe City of Denver’s document management systems to centralize document and content applications across over 70 separate agencies.

The Alfresco experts at Zia have also made significant contributions and developments around the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS). Zia’s Director of Enterprise Integration, Ryan McVeigh, is a technical editor and secretary on the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee. Additionally, Zia has contributed a Spring Framework tutorial created to demonstrate how users can version content in a CMIS repository. Zia also developed some of the very first CMIS-based native content management applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Called Fresh Docs, these are open source apps run against Alfresco and several other CMIS repositories.

"Alfresco has been instrumental in assisting us with executing a simple, but effective business plan and we look forward to continued success and growth,” said Mike Mahon, CEO, Zia Consulting. “To be designated as a Platinum Partner represents not only the great work we’ve shared with Alfresco, but also the way in which the Alfresco community has accepted us with open arms. It is truly the life-blood of the organization and a fundamental driver in Alfresco’s continued success.”

Alfresco’s system integrator partner program offers new partner benefits that enable system integrators across the Americas to build new practice areas and generate consistent revenue streams around Alfresco ECM and WCM technologies, including:

• Turnkey enablement including both sales and technical training;
• Lead sharing for services and resell opportunities;
• Partner Solution Showcase to promote applications developed on the Alfresco platform;
• Joint business planning and dedicated resources for business development activities;
• Joint marketing opportunities and assistance;
• Speaking opportunities at Alfresco and industry events;
• Access to an Alfresco Enterprise subscription and technical support; and,
• Access to Alfresco portal for knowledge-base sales and marketing materials.

Zia Consulting recently presented atAlfresco’s Content.Gov 2011event in Washington DC, and showcased a series of case studies on the City of Denver’sConsolidated Content Management Program. This presentation highlighted Denver’s switch from paper-based contract management to an electronic process that streamlined the contracting process by implementing citywide workflows, electronic signatures and improved auditability. Zia will be hosting a webinar, Easy Records Management with Ephesoft and Alfresco on February 10th. For more details and to register please visit theWebinar Event homepage.

For more information on Zia Consulting’s services for Alfresco, please visithttp://www.ziaconsulting.com/products/

To learn more about Alfresco’s partner program, visithttp://www.alfresco.com/partners/program/

To try Alfresco please visithttp://www.alfresco.com/try/

About ZIA Consulting

Zia Consulting, Inc. is based in Boulder, CO. Zia’s focus is to provide insightful technical expertise in Content Management, Enterprise 2.0 Application Development and Mobile Application Development at the enterprise level. Find out more about Zia’s services athttp://www.ziaconsulting.com

About Alfresco Software

Alfresco (www.alfresco.com) is the 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 40 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.

Zia Consulting Media Contact

Mike Mahon
Zia Consulting, Inc
mike@ziaconsulting.com
303.443.4004 x203

Alfresco Media Contact

Linsey Krauss
Lois Paul & Partners
Linsey_krauss@lpp.com
(001) 512-638-5316

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