Back in 2011, Documentum, still part of EMC, licensed/purchased D2 as the next generation interface to replace Documentum Webtop. While D2 has not been very successful in converting existing Webtop customers for a variety of reasons, there is a large number of clients that had invested in D2 before 2016 when Documentum stopped investing in it to […]
Documentum D2 vs. HPI – Administration
Both TSG’s High Performance Interface (HPI) and Documentum D2 are driven by extensive configurations made in an administration module. In this post, we will overview the administration components available in HPI and D2 and demo making a search form configuration update in both applications.
Documentum D2 vs. HPI – Working with Multiple Documents
It’s a common user requirement in an ECM system to allow users to act on multiple documents at once. Whether it’s necessary for the business process (ex: a workflow route), or just a time saver (ex: deleting documents), we see requirements around multi-document execution from many clients. For this post, we will look at how both […]
Documentum D2 vs. HPI – Document Annotations
Earlier this year, we announced that we now support integrating D2 with OpenAnnotate to provide document annotation capabilities. For this post, we thought we’d dive deeper into the user interface aspect of the integration and compare the D2 approach with HPI.
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.
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 D2 – Announcing OpenAnnotate Support
TSG is happy to announce our new Documentum D2 plugin that allows Documentum D2 users to leverage OpenAnnotate for their PDF annotation needs. OpenAnnotate is a next generation web based annotation tool (no client side components) that allows users to quickly create rich annotations on a PDF document or rendition.
Documentum D2 – Thoughts on the Content Library Use Case
We recently helped a client with a difficult implementation surrounding the “Content Library” function released back in April with D2 as a primary client. The use case is focused on managing project deliverables for large-scale multi-year projects. This post will describe some of the client’s struggles and our overall thoughts.
Documentum D2 – Why has it failed to replace Webtop?
In a discussion with a long time Documentum client last week that had evaluated D2, some interesting points were raised as to why D2 has failed to replace Webtop. This post will summarize those discussions.