On May 29th, 2019, TSG and Alfresco hosted a webinar detailing an innovative solution for migrating off of FileNet onto more modern ECM solutions. Taking the approach of a rolling migration combined with offline access methods enabled users to stop running FileNet very quickly compared to a traditional “big bang” migration approach. When IBM dropped […]
FileNet – How to retire in weeks, not months – Alfresco Webinar May 29
Tony Parzgnat, the OpenMigrate Senior Product Manager, will be conducting a webinar with Alfresco May 29th on an innovative approach to retire FileNet.
Alfresco Guest Blog – How to retire FileNet quickly and avoid those large support payments.
TSG was a guest contributor to the Alfresco blog site this week.
Federated Search versus Rolling Migration
In moving our legacy repositories customers to new modern solutions, one of the major recommendations to reduce cost, risk and stress is a rolling migration. In a discussion with a client last week, there was some confusion in mixing a rolling migration with a federated search. This post will discuss the differences and how a […]
FileNet – How to retire in weeks rather than months
Many of the TSG customers and prospects on FileNet are struggling with old versions of FileNet that have lived for decades with millions and even billions of documents. For clients looking to reduce the cost of supporting FileNet as soon as possible, TSG can leverage some innovative solutions, including a rolling migration combined with offline […]
FileNet to AWS – An 80 Million Document Case Study
As part of TSG’s ongoing efforts to assist clients move from legacy ECM systems like FileNet to modern cloud alternatives, TSG has recently published a case study highlighting how one FileNet customer was able to successfully move to Amazon Web Services.
Migrating to Alfresco – Reducing Risk, Stress and Cost with a Rolling Migration
Too often, migrating to Alfresco can be seen as a massive undertaking where the migration effort means moving all the content, integrations and people to the new platform in a migrate all at once, “Big Bang” approach. Given the effort to move all the different components, along with training the users on a new system, […]
FileNet and CMOD – Will IBM finally sell them and potentially buy Box?
One of our more controversial posts over the last couple of years was back in 2017 “FileNet – Is IBM Planning on Selling it”. We had some interesting follow-up – particularly on LinkedIn from some folks at IBM that were not to happy with our analysis. At the time we stated that “we would expect […]
FileNet Support to End in 2019
IBM has formally announced that it is dropping support for FileNet version 5.2.X on April 30th, 2019. FileNet customers on 5.2.X need to decide whether to upgrade to the 5.5 version, run unsupported, or migrate to another option. This post will present our thoughts from talking with a FileNet customer working through the decision process.