Performance and ease of use in a search interface is often one of the highest concerns clients have when deploying Alfresco. Back in April 2016, we presented how to Do More with Your Alfresco Deployment with a configurable search interface. For this post in our 2018 Share and OpenContent Management Suite comparison series, we will […]
Documentum – Webtop and OpenContent Search Comparison
Performance and ease of use in a search interface is often one of the highest concerns our clients have when building an ECM system. Back in 2012, we did a Search comparison between Webtop and OpenContent Search (then called HPI). As part of our 2018 Making Documentum Better blog series, we thought we’d update the […]
Federated Content Management – Enterprise Search with a new moniker?
One troubling point we continue to see in our industry space, whether it be content management providers like Nuxeo, ASG or even analysts like Gartner, is a continued push around the benefits of a federation search, often as an alternative to migration. This post will explore federated content management with a comparison to a very […]
DynamoDB and AWS – How to build your own ECM capabilities for massive scale and performance
After the successful 11 Billion Document Benchmark with DynamoDB, we had a discussion with a couple of the major analysts as well as a nice shout-out from Jeff Potts on ECM Architect. We received a ton of great feedback on the scale of what we were able to accomplish along with lots of discussion specifically […]
Documentum Searching – D2, Webtop, HPI, and xCP
As we have mentioned on this site multiple times, performance and ease of use in regards to searching is one of the most frequent concerns as it relates to use of Documentum. During our review of D2, we thought it would make an interesting blog post as well as video to compare searching across the […]
Documentum Search – How to get around the user request of “I just want a search like Google”
Often times Documentum users, frustrated with Webtop Search or Advanced Search will request “Can we just have a Google Search?”. This post will provide input to Documentum developers on how to best address this ongoing request. While this post is specifically focused on Documentum developers, lessons learned about interface design apply to our Alfresco and […]
Documentum D2 vs. HPI – A Closer Look at Search
Earlier this year, we posted about HPI Search compared to Documentum Webtop and D2 as well as our thoughts around some of the technical issues with D2. For this post, we thought we’d take a closer look at the options for search with D2 as compared to HPI.
Alfresco – ADF and OpenContent Search Comparison
As we’ve mentioned previously when comparing search in Alfresco Share to the OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS), performance and ease of use in a search interface is often one of the highest concerns clients have when deploying Alfresco. As we’ve recently started comparing the new Alfresco Development Framework (ADF) with OCMS, naturally our first inclination it to […]
Alfresco – Building a Search Interface – ADF vs. OpenContent Management Suite
In previous posts, we looked at comparing the Alfresco Development Framework (ADF) to OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS), specifically the search, contributor, and folder interfaces. For this post, we are going to turn our attention to building an application on each of these platforms. Specifically, we’ll look at how clients can build an Alfresco search interface.
Do More with Your Alfresco Deployment with HPI – Configuring Search
One of the first questions for any Alfresco implementation is: “how will users search and access documents?”. As longtime readers of the TSG blog will know, we typically recommend against the user “I just was a Google Search” approach. Most of our clients want to target certain document types/scenarios and search on key attributes to […]
Document Control – Common Best Practices
We had an open-forum discussion on Document Control at the most recent Midwest Documentum User Group meeting. The discussion focused on feedback from various members of the group as well our experience over the years. We received positive feedback that the open discussion format, with multiple people participating, was insightful and are planning on using a similar […]
Documentum Performance – Search, Retrieval and Inbox
I was talking to a client last week that was struggling with their Documentum system performance. This client had recently brought in Documentum Consulting, and having been unsuccessful in improving performance, was concerned that there might be nothing left to do. This post will focus on innovative things TSG has done for clients in regards […]
Do More with Your Alfresco Deployment – HPI vs. a Custom Search Interface
In the previous post in this series, we compared searching in HPI vs. out of the box interfaces like Share. However, we have seen multiple TSG clients attempt build a search interface from scratch. In this post, we will discuss why it is better and faster to leverage HPI for Alfresco search rather than “rolling your own”.
Enterprise Document Search – A Publishing rather than Crawler/Federated Approach
I met with a client yesterday that was struggling with a typical ECM issue in regards to how to provide for searches against multiple ECM environments. While ECM vendors love to pitch the “one repository to rule them all”, most ECM users have content in a variety of different solutions that have evolved over time. […]
HPI Search Compared to Webtop and D2
This blog is the first post in a series that will consist of multiple short posts that touch on a number of differences between TSG’s HPI solution and the Webtop and D2 interfaces. For the first post, we will discuss searching for content. Users of ECM systems are often willing to put up with some […]
Documentum Search Application Performance Tuning – Part 1
Typically Documentum users will have heard Ed speak at Momentum or EMC World in the past in regards to system performance and Documentum. For this post, we are going to take a different approach and talk about Documentum Search APPLICATION Tuning for system and USER performance. All of the concepts relate to our Alfresco and […]
Documentum – Making it Better with an OpenContent Search Consumer Portal
One of our most popular methods to make Documentum better for our clients is to implement a consumer portal application based on Open Content Search. This consumer portal is typically a simplified search and retrieve interface based on a read-only cache of documents and metadata outside of the Documentum repository. TSG has implemented multiple consumer portal […]
Documentum xPlore Deployment – Lessons Learned from Pharma Implementaion
We’re working with a large Pharmaceutical company to install Documentum xPlore as a replacement for FAST. We’ve just finished the QA environment deployment, and we’re planning for the Production deployment in mid-April. For this post, we are going to discuss the cutover strategy as well as some lessons learned from the project.
Federated Search and Content Services – Is a Publishing Approach better?
Over the last couple of years, some ECM vendors have been touting a Federated Search model to “cure” the issue of access to document content contained in legacy ECM systems. Whether from an ECM vendor like Nuxeo or supporting software vendor like Simflofy, the marketing message of getting access to multiple repositories from one search hearkens […]
Content Service Platform Scaling – How Good Key Design and NoSQL can avoid the need for Elastic/Solr or other indexes
TSG has implemented multiple large document solutions in our Alfresco, Documentum and NoSQL (DynamoDB and HBase/Hadoop) practices with volumes in the hundreds of millions and sometimes billions of documents. Our most recent FileNet Migration had 4 Billion Documents and in 2019 TSG successfully benchmarked 11 Billion documents internally on DynamoDB. This post will highlight the […]
OpenContent Search
Finding Value in Content – Configurable Search Interface to Make Content Accessible OpenContent Search provides a no code configurable interface to find and retrieve documents from a variety of different repositories including Alfresco, Documentum, AWS/DynamoDB, Azure/HDInsight, Solr, HBase/Hadoop or Google/BigTable. Simplifying the User Experience To many document repositories are built for complex “do all” document […]
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 […]
Enhancing Alfresco Share with HPI 2.1 – Search and Document Display
TSG will be conducting a Webinar with Alfresco on February 11 (Recording Posted) on how to enhance or extend Alfresco Share with HPI 2.1. This post is the first in a series of posts on how HPI 2.1 can work with Share and will focus on Search and Document Display.
Documentum Search – Why the Google appliance just doesn’t cut it
Many experienced Documentum customers have attempted to leverage the Google appliance as an alternative to Documentum Search or as part of an Enterprise Search effort. One of our clients presented their experience at our user group meeting. This post will discuss their findings.
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.
Alfresco Deployment – No Code vs Low Code
One of the trends we are seeing with our Alfresco clients is a desire to move away from custom interface coding to more configuration or no code approaches. This post will highlight the differences between coding approaches for Alfresco Share and the Alfresco Development Framework (ADF) and configuration approaches with TSG’s OpenContent Management Suite.
Documentum Full Text Search with Lucene – Honoring ACL Security
The last post discussed the results of an HPI Lucene Search test compared to a Webtop FAST Search as part of a proof of concept for a client looking to provide a consumer interface. As we have often mentioned on this forum, we continually see clients looking for a better search interface than Webtop, as […]
Documentum and SharePoint – Key differences for document control applications
We have recently begun working with a couple of clients on potential migration efforts from Documentum to SharePoint for their document control applications. In preparing for these efforts, we are in the process of upgrading OpenContent, OpenMigrate and even parts of HPI to run on either SharePoint or Documentum. For this post, we thought it […]
OpenContent Search – Search Overview and Attribute Search
This short video overviews search in OpenContent Search and highlights attribute searching
FAST Administration and Search Tools
While helping a client troubleshoot some FAST full text indexing issues with their Documentum 5.3sp6 environment recently, I came across some tools that proved to be helpful during the troubleshooting process.
SharePoint and Alfresco Search Alternatives
Similar to our recent post and whitepaper on Documentum and SharePoint integration, this post will present similar options for Alfresco users. We recently posted an example of SharePoint and Alfresco integration in our Learning Zone. This post will present a recap of possible solutions to compare and contrast the alternatives.
Alfresco Content Accelerator for Policy & Procedure Management
Take Control of Policies and Procedures with Alfresco Maintaining and managing thousands of policies, procedures, forms and other operational documents is an enormous challenge, especially with frequent updates, re-approvals, and redistribution in response to the ever-changing corporate standards, industry requirements, legislation, and marketplace events. Those challenges are multiplied exponentially when policies and procedures are managed […]
Enterprise Content Management Predictions – 2015
This post will give some thoughts in regards to the futures of ECM and what we would expect in 2015. In looking back, we neglected to do a predictions last year. See our post detailing our 2013 predictions for Documentum. This post will compare our thoughts and predictions in the past for the previous two […]
No Code Interfaces for Content Service Platforms – Why Now?
With the release of the Alfresco Content Accelerator (formerly the OpenContent Management Suite or OCMS) this week, one of the major benefits for Alfresco, Documentum or NoSQL customers with content management interface requirements is the ability to configure interfaces/solutions with No Code. No Code is a means to deliver specific business functionality quickly through configuration […]
Alfresco No Code – Do More with OpenContent
No Code was popularized by Salesforce and other SaaS vendors as a means to deliver business functionality without the requirement of developers, allowing users to configure specific capabilities and start using the application quickly. This post will present a background and the benefits of No Code as well as present how the OpenContent Management suite […]
Federated Content Aggregation – Comparison to Federated Search and Rolling Migration
During some interesting discussions this week, the team brainstormed around federations of content and how to name a federated approach where we are doing more than just search but not bringing along all the baggage that goes with a migration. This post will introduce the concept of “Federated Content Aggregation” approach to content management. Federated […]
Documentum Search – Lucene, FAST, Verity, Google and upcoming DSS
Since the new Documentum Search Services beta program just started last week, we thought we would share some of TSG’s thoughts on full-text search and our plans to add Lucene capabilities to our open source offerings. Documentum Search Services (DSS), was tentatively called Enterprise Search Services (ESS) early in the product development. DSS promises to […]
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 […]
OpenContent Web Services
Access Your Content From Anywhere – Content Services Built to Last OpenContent Web Services provides a high performance, platform independent Web Services layer for: Documentum Alfresco AWS/S3 and AWS/DynamoDB Azure/HDInsight Google/BigTable Hbase/Hadoop OpenContent Web Services is written in Java and accessible via REST endpoints. OpenContent Web Services: Separating the Application from the Software Whether building […]
Upgrading to Alfresco 5 – New Search Features and Solr 4
The latest release of Alfresco One introduced a range of enhancements to the search capabilities in Alfresco Share. With these enhancements also came a significant upgrade to Alfresco’s back-end indexing and search engine, Solr. This article will showcase some of the new search features that are available in Alfresco 5, as well as provide information […]
Introducing Smart Communications CCM Capabilities with OpenContent Case
Chicago – October 30, 2019 – Technology Services Group, an industry leader in providing innovative content management solutions, has joined the Smart Communications partner ecosystem to help customers elevate and manage their customer communications. This partnership enables the combination of SmartCOMMTM with TSG’s OpenContent Case Management to generate, deliver and compliantly manage accurate, branded and […]
Documentum Content Server 6.7 – Primary Support Ending April 30, 2015 – What should clients do?
At EMC World 2014, Rick Devenuti shared 13 minutes into his keynote that only 25% of Documentum customers had upgraded to the Content Server 7.x after over 18 months of 7.x being available. While Rick spun this news to the positive, we had been posting since 2013 that many of our clients were hesitant to […]
Documentum and Alfresco Large Migrations – Thoughts on a Hybrid/Rolling Approach
One of the biggest challenges in rolling out new interfaces for ECM is migration from older/legacy systems. We just started working with one financial services client that, in moving toward an Alfresco and HPI 2.1 solution, has initiated a hybrid approach to allow the interface to be introduced quickly while simplifying and reducing the risk […]
Documentum D2 4.0 – Initial TSG Review
At EMC World and in subsequent marketing efforts, Documentum has created quite a buzz around the D2 v4.0 release. Documentum is promoting that D2’s powerful configuration services can deliver a modern client interface while simplifying the application implementation via configuration rather than code. Many Documentum users struggle with any new Documentum release in regards to […]
OpenContent Case
Making Content Work – Configurable Content Organization to Streamline Business OpenContent Case provides a no code configurable, stream-lined, interface to efficiently view and interact with a set of related documents from a variety of different repositories including Alfresco, Documentum, AWS/DynamoDB, Azure/HDInsight, Solr, HBase/Hadoop or Google/BigTable. Simplifying the User Experience To many document repositories are built […]
Working with Folders in Documentum User Interfaces – D2, Webtop, HPI, and xCP
When developing a taxonomy for an ECM implementation, the question of how heavily to use folders to classify content always arises. Out-of-the-box implementations of Documentum using WDK applications, like Webtop, typically rely heavily on creating new content in folders, as well as using folder trees to find documents. TSG has had a lot of success […]
Documentum Cross-Repository Searching – an integrated open source approach
We just completed a very interesting integration for one of our clients to enable searching across multiple Documentum repositories. The client was struggling with the Federated Search from Documentum and was looking for a better solution to access two separate Documentum instances with a cleaner search. This post will detail our approach and some of […]
Alfresco Share – Comparison with OpenContent Management Suite Series
Alfresco’s out of the box user interface, Share, is typically the collaboration interface most Alfresco clients leverage for their initial development efforts. Alfresco Share has garnered some concerned attention from Alfresco customers this year when Alfresco announced that Alfresco would be deprecating Share in future. To help readers understand the difference between Share and the OpenContent […]
ECM Interfaces – Moving from Legacy to Modern Interfaces
During a TSG presentation at AIIM Executive committee last month, one question raised from the audience was “how would you define a modern interface for ECM”. This post will address some of the concepts and practices TSG implements in building our modern interfaces to differentiate from the legacy interfaces of the past.
Alfresco Interface – Differences between Share and HPI
We are working with a couple of different clients that are considering TSG’s High Performance Interface (HPI) to as an alternative to Alfresco Share. This post will discuss some of the key differences between the two interfaces for those clients considering alternative Alfresco interfaces.