As we have posted in the past, Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure offering has been a very attractive option for companies looking to outsource some, or all, of their infrastructure. Microsoft, while a little late to the market, has put together a comparable suite of tools to Amazon’s AWS offerings, including a very robust Hadoop […]
Alfresco – Amazon Web Services or On-Premise?
One of our clients is replacing IBM/FileNet with Alfresco. As this will be a new Alfresco installation, the client is considering building out an Alfresco infrastructure within one of their data centers or within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. This post will share our analysis of the pros and cons of both approaches.
ECM Disruptors – Open Source, The Cloud, Software as a Service and Big Data – What are clients doing?
When it comes to new technology, one Accenture partner once shared an interesting analogy comparing new technology to teenager vices. Everyone is talking about it, few are doing it, and those that are doing it aren’t doing it very well. For this post, we will discuss TSG’s ECM clients, The Cloud, Software as a Services […]
ImageWare from Cannon – Migration to Alfresco in the Cloud
As summarized in our series of migration posts, many of our clients are moving to Alfresco from legacy ECM solutions. For one of our current clients, we are moving from an onsite Canon ImageWare solution to Alfresco hosted within the Amazon Cloud. This post will share our experience migrating from ImageWare to Alfresco and include some specifics […]
Documentum Migration to Alfresco – Making one small mobile/cloud step first
Having already addressed here Why Clients are migrating from Documentum to Alfresco, the major issue most long-time clients have with moving from Documentum to Alfresco is how to take that first step. Legacy Documentum users often have terabytes of documents stored in Documentum and contemplating a move to any platform would be costly and resource […]
Documentum to Alfresco Migration – SaaS and the Cloud
With an increased pressure to control IT costs, we are seeing more and more clients not only migrating from Documentum to Alfresco, but looking for other ways to reduce spending via Software as a Service (Saas) in the Cloud. While we have already discussed the cost savings of Alfresco as well as ways to leverage solutions, […]
Predictions for EMC Documentum in 2013
EMC made many significant announcements in 2012 (D2, xCP, D7) that has impacted their user base. Now that the dust has settled, we are making the following predictions as we look forward into 2013:
Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conclusion
The Salesforce.com Dreamforce convention is winding so we thought we would share our thoughts on what we observed and heard over the past week. As always, the convention offered a lot of fanfare and excitement mixed with tons of useful knowledge from the over 800 sessions. For the most part we are convinced that the […]
Integrating Solutions in the Cloud with Alfresco
As our clients move to a cloud-based architecture one of the most significant benefits in deploying Alfresco is the ability to leverage its APIs and integrate it with complementary products providing complete solutions. The range of APIs within Alfresco is significant: CMIS, REST, JavaScript, Java Foundation, and JSR-168 Portlets. There are also several ways to […]