Acquisition adds industry expertise and out-of-the-box solutions to Alfresco Boston, March 17, 2020 – Alfresco Software, an open source content services provider, today announced a strategic move to acquire long term partner, Technology Services Group (TSG), a Chicago based Enterprise Content Management software and services firm. TSG provides expert advice, services and solutions – including […]
Alfresco Interface Options – Comparing OpenContent, ADF and Share – Summary
Over the last two years, TSG has posted multiple times regarding differences between the OpenContent Management Suite, the Alfresco Application Development Framework and Alfresco Share. While all approaches interact with the Alfresco repository, there are some subtle differences to consider. This post will share a summary of our previous posts for those looking at Alfresco […]
Elastic Services for ECM – TSG OpenContent Roadmap
Recently, TSG has seen increased interest in our Elasticsearch capabilities, particularly as it related to our 11 Billion Document Benchmark on AWS. As part of our product roadmap this quarter, TSG is announcing the formalization of our OpenContent Elastic Services as well as some new features that we are adding to our work with the […]
FileNet AWS Cloud Native? Thoughts on recent announcement
IBM recently announced a new Quick Start capability for FileNet to run in AWS. This post will share our thoughts and try to better explain the “cloud native” concept with a comparison between FileNet’s offering, Alfresco’s offering and TSG’s own DynamoDB offering with some detail on how the three different offerings run in Amazon Web […]
Print to Repository – OpenContent Print Driver Support
TSG has been working with a client recently that needs the ability to print directly to the repository. This post will present both the old way of printing to the repository as well as our new OpenContent Print Driver to allow printing to the repository with a consistent web-based indexing user experience.
Mobius Content Services Migrations with OpenMigrate
TSG has recently seen several existing and new clients looking to migrate content from Mobius Content Services to other Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platforms. Reasons for migrating include consolidation of disparate ECM systems, the desire to move to a NoSQL ECM such as TSG’s DynamoDB and Hadoop solutions, and the need to regularly extract content […]
ECM 2.0 – One-Step vs. Two-Step Migrations
As clients are preparing for 2020, TSG has seen an uptick in the number of requests for OpenMigrate support for migrating from legacy repositories (FileNet, ImagePlus, Mobius, CMOD…..) to a new modern ECM 2.0 repository. TSG will typically recommend a “one step” migration where OpenMigrate can both retrieve documents from the legacy repository and store […]
Federated Content Management – Enterprise Search with a new moniker?
One troubling point we continue to see in our industry space, whether it be content management providers like Nuxeo, ASG or even analysts like Gartner, is a continued push around the benefits of a federation search, often as an alternative to migration. This post will explore federated content management with a comparison to a very […]
ECM 2.0 – Cloud for Metadata and On Premise Document/Object Storage
We have recently had some interesting discussions with clients in regards to storage of documents and objects on premise with cloud options for the meta-data. One of the advantages of the TSG solutions is that we can support a variety of alternatives for both on premise as well as cloud based document and object storage. […]