TSG, Alfresco, and AAIS have partnered to provide a best in class content management and tailored advisory solution ensuring the success of each of its members and customers. Watch our recent case study to see how the flexibility of a cloud native content management solution running on Amazon Web Services with OpenContent Management Suite and […]
IBM Content Manager and Content Manager onDemand (CMOD) Migrations – How to Migrate Quickly
Many of the TSG customers and prospects are struggling with old versions of Content Manager and Content Manager onDemand that have lived for decades with millions and even billions of documents. With the 2016 announcement that, while still being branded as IBM CMOD, all future development has been moved to UNICOM, most customers are looking […]
Computer Generated Documents – What’s different about Capture 2.0 and Big Data?
As part of our series on Capture 2.0, this quarter TSG is focused on improving our ability to capture documents that are “borne digital”, that is, while being in a paper format, were never printed out on paper. While capturing documents from Word or other documents created by an end-user is fairly straightforward, computer batch processes […]
Capture 2.0 – Improving Metadata Extraction with Machine Learning
As we begin to explore the topic of Capture 2.0 at TSG, the primary component that we would propose differentiates the legacy capture tools from the capture tools of the future is the inclusion of machine learning to the capture process. As discussed in our Capture 2.0 introductory post, the majority of legacy tools do […]
DynamoDB – 11 Billion Document Benchmark White Paper
In May of 2019, Technology Services Group initiated an 11 Billion Document DynamoDB benchmark, which was completed in June 2019. With the success of the benchmark, TSG was able to successfully demonstrate that AWS, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch and our OpenContent, OpenAnnotate and OpenMigrate products could scale to an unprecedented level and represented the next evolution of […]
Content Capture 2.0 – The Upcoming Disruptions – Thoughts and Analysis
Similar to the disruption happening within the ECM marketplace, most analysts (and TSG) are predicting that the Capture component of ECM is ripe for disruption as well. The capture marketplace is very similar to the ECM marketplace with legacy products that haven’t evolved as new requirements and technologies are introduced. One of the strategic initiatives […]
ECM Large Repositories – Volume Testing With the TSG Test Harness
One of the more interesting achievements of the TSG 11 Billion Document benchmark was our ability to quickly load a large repository and test performance for search and retrieval performance as well as concurrent usage. For those clients considering developing a large repository of documents, TSG now has both the experience as well as additional […]
DynamoDB and Hadoop/HBase as a Document Store
How Key Design can be used to reduce index requirements TSG continues to have success with Hadoop/HBase and DynamoDB as alternatives to legacy ECM platforms that rely on relational databases. As more clients adopt modern NoSQL platforms for ECM, we are seeing additional and interesting benefits from NoSQL/Key-Value database. This post will highlight the ‘key’ […]
File Formats Lessons Learned – Legacy ECM Migrations
As we presented yesterday, one of the bigger issues with FileNet Migrations was clients that have leveraged the COLD format and how TSG has come up with our own adapter to help clients move away from FileNet COLD to a less proprietary PDF format. The discussion got us thinking about what other formats need special […]