Supporting Alfresco Deployment on AWS cloud
A Fortune 100 insurance company was facing challenges with its Alfresco implementation and needed to migrate the existing environment to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to enable easy document management, collaboration and support audits and compliance inquiries requirements.
Business Challenge
The client needed a flexible and agile AWS Cloud environment for its Alfresco implementation that improves document management and enterprise collaboration.
Technology Components
AWS Cloud, RHEL, Alfresco, MySQL, Elastic Bamboo, Java, SharePoint, BMC Remedy
Approach
Analyzed servers needed for the new Alfresco content repository at development, QA, staging and production phases.
Migrated the content from Alfresco 4.2 to Alfresco 5.0.3 version on Amazon EC2 as per client’s priorities.
Enhanced Alfresco internals for performance and scalability to support the migrated content types
Provided application integration (Web Services APIs) support for LOB applications and third party systems.
Provided two weeks of post go-live (Hypercare) support per phase and knowledge transfer to the client’s enterprise content management (ECM) support team.
Transformational Effects
Provided a low-cost cloud solution which complies with regulations, acts and mandates
Enabled easy file sharing and collaboration
Equipped the client’s systems with powerful document management features
Developed and streamlined task management and workflow
Provided complete IT control of security and access
Provided choice of full SaaS or private AWS instance
Enabled powerful metadata and full-text search features
