TSG attended the MeR 2018 conference this past week. One consistent theme in multiple presentations was the focus on ‘good enough’ when implementing a records retention program rather than a detailed comprehensive plan that would require combing through compliance laws and policies and implementing complex retention schedules. This post will present our thoughts from the […]
Alfresco & AWS – Modernizing Records Management – Case Study from the Department of the Navy
This week Alfresco released a case study and whitepaper highlighting the process efficiency and cost savings for modernization of the Department of the Navy’s records management program. Using AWS and Alfresco, the DON TRACKER solution retired 20 separate systems and delivered a solutions responding to the Managing Government Records Directive from the Office of Management and Budget […]
FileNet – Adding a Modern Interface to a Legacy ECM
As mentioned in multiple posts, TSG has many clients stuck on Legacy ECM tools like FileNet, Documentum and OpenText. While most of the posts here are focused on how to migrate to a modern ECM environment sometimes the burden of moving all of the documents and interfaces can be too daunting. For this post, we […]
Documentum and Everteam Integration – A Better Records Management Experience
TSG has recently partnered with Everteam to build a connector that will allow easy management of records in Documentum using Everteam’s Archiving and Records Management solution everteam.records. In our de-risking Documentum RPS blog we highlight several of the complexities in using Documentum RPS and how we suggest simplifying them. While RPS is a full-featured solution, its […]
Documentum Records Management – It is time to de-risk your RPS implementation
This week we met with a client who has been evaluating Documentum RPS (Retention Policy Services) for about 18 months. The complexity of the product and its impact on database size and the audit trail are primary implementation concerns. Our client has multiple repositories and content storage of well over 700TB. The impact of applying […]
Top 5 Differences between Records Management and Document Management
Several of our clients have been wrestling with the topic of Information Governance (IG) and the difference between Records Management (RM) and Document Management (DM). We participated in several discussions while at NIRMA where the need to incorporate Electronic Document Management functionality is falling under the Records Management department. Long term, records managers are looking at Records Management solutions […]
Extending Alfresco Security Beyond ACLs
Recently TSG worked with an Alfresco client that had unique requirements around document and folder security. In addition to traditional ACL security, the client needed the ability to tag documents with metadata that would deny users access to content unless they were members of a particular group. This post will focus on our approach for […]
Alfresco Records Management – An Example of Automatic Record Filing
In this post we will continue the discussion of in-place record declaration by automatically filing a record using Alfresco RM. This post illustrates how an HR document can be automatically filed in the File Plan using Alfresco Rules. Once the user declares a document as a record, the document will be automatically linked to the […]
Alfresco Records Management – Using Rules to Make Records Filing Easy for Users
In a previous blog post we wrote about a common enhancement we often make to ECM systems to automatically file documents based on metadata values. Without development work, performing this same function in a DoD 5015.2 compliant records management system was difficult. However, with the release of version 2.2 of Alfresco’s Records Management module, highlighted at […]