At TSG we get questions all the time in regards to “How are your consulting engagements different between Alfresco and other ECM offerings like Documentum, FileNet/IBM and SharePoint.” For this post, we will explore how we have been successful with Alfresco Consulting initiatives and point out some of the differences to commercial ECM consulting.
Alfresco Consulting – Documentum Disruptor #2
We posted an article last week on how Alfresco and SharePoint were Disrupting Documentum. The term disruptor is from the Innovators Dilemma business book and it relates to how difficult it is for one company to continue technology innovation over time and newcomers disrupt the industry. In a phone discussion with one of the responders, […]
Documentum Alternatives and Disruptors – Alfresco or SharePoint?
I was at a Documentum client this week that is reviewing their ECM strategy as part of planning for 2012 and 2013. Given a somewhat difficult relationship with EMC due to a contentious software audit, the client wanted to review alternatives and consider a Documentum migration to a new ECM system as an alternative to […]
Documentum, SharePoint, OpenSearch and cross-repository searching
Because clients often leverage SharePoint as their company Intranet, many consider configuring SharePoint as a search portal for external repositories. This approach allows users to use one central interface for searching and retrieving content. While Documentum provides the MyDocumentum for SharePoint product to provide search access to Documentum, we are seeing more clients wanting a […]
Documentum and Momentum EMC World 2011 – Recap
With the conference officially ending Thursday, this post will summarize our posts for the week along with our overall thoughts.
My Documentum for SharePoint Web Parts
For a recent client, we installed the latest release of My Documentum for SharePoint (MDSP). This post will discuss our thoughts on the tool and our implementation experience.
Documentum/Momentum EMC World Prep
The agenda for Momentum, the Documentum portion of EMC World, has recently been posted (http://www.emcworld.com/images/Momentum_2011_Agenda-master4webpage.pdf). For this post, we thought we would highlight things we (TSG) or our typical clients attend. Overall, EMC has divided the sessions into “tracks” focused on Architecture/Best Practices, ECM, Software Developer, Information Governance, Case Management, User Group, Capture and Labs.
Whitney Tidmarsh leaves Documentum, General Manager of Box.net
First broken by Word of Pie at AIIM that she was leaving EMC, multiple sites are reporting that Whitney is now with Box.net including Silicon Valley Business Journal and PR-USA.Net. This post will discuss the changes at Documentum/IIG and discuss Box.Net as well as cloud content management offerings in general.
Enterprise Search – Content Management Thoughts
Many clients are struggling with the concept of Enterprise Search. While the last post discussed ways to improve search results, this post will discuss thoughts and experience with a recent client focused on Enterprise Search.