2010 seems to be the year many of our Documentum clients are deciding (or considering) to migrate to Alfresco. For this post, we will try to address the reasons leading to this trend. This will be the first of several posts on the subject with follow-up posts providing more technical, application and industry examples. First […]
Coming Book Review: Documentum 6.5 Content Management Foundations
I’ve never done a book review before and I was flattered to be contacted and asked to review Pawan Kumar’s new book Documentum 6.5 Content Management Foundations. With some of the most well known and respected Documentum community contributors as technical reviewers
HPI – Expansion to support Contributors and Power Users
I am working with a client that will roll out HPI (TSG’s open source High Performance Interface) as their main Documentum interface for their contributors and power users. Typically users that simply need to search, view, and print documents use HPI as their main interface while power users have typically used Webtop or another custom interface.
Migrating From Documentum with OpenMigrate: Best Practices
Migrating out of a full-feature ECM solution like Documentum can introduce a number of challenges; OpenMigrate can help resolve the problems.
Documentum – Top 12 Tips
Every couple of months we like to step back and offer a “What’s next” post in regards to our thoughts on what Documentum customers should be considering with their implementations. For this post, we will highlight our thoughts based on a thorough review of EMC World and our client briefing discussions.
Documentum Offline Viewer – Conflicting Date Display
As we mentioned earlier in the year, we have many clients looking to push content out of Documentum for consumers. We are currently deploying this type of application for a client with specific requirements in how to display the date in the consumer interface. For many of our web applications, we leverage client utilities (YUI, […]
Potential of SAP acquiring Documentum
A couple of weeks ago at EMC World, TSG surmised that the partnership between SAP and Documentum (IIG – Information Intelligence Group of EMC) might be the first step in a potential acquisition by SAP of IIG. For those not familiar with the SAP relationship, the new partnership allows SAP to sell the following new […]
D6.5 Upgrades and Complex Passwords
Recently a client that uses Documentum WebPublisher went live with a D6.5 SP2 upgrade. All the appropriate planning was done in preparation for the launch as detailed in this prior post. The upgrade in the development environment exposed some updates that needed to be made to supporting DFC based applications, but the upgrade process itself […]
Open Source Scanning For Documentum and Alfresco – Introducing OpenCapture
Over the years, TSG has worked with many different clients on projects that utilize a scanning tool to ingest content into a repository. While products like InputAccel and Kofax are great, especially when dealing with centralized, large volume or bulk scanning models, many clients desire a more quick and seamless approach that utilizes the web and cost-effective scanners […]