Last month, Alfresco updated the 2012 Product Roadmap on the Alfresco Wiki, providing a rough outline of things to come for Alfresco. Aside from the core repository and Share interface, cloud and mobile are obviously a huge focus for this year. The following are some thoughts on some of the more interesting enhancements planned for 2012. […]
Documentum D2 3.1 – What are some of the limitations?
Recently there has been a lot of buzz and marketing surrounding EMC Documentum’s user interface, D2. Many clients have asked for information on the product, and we’ve spent some time doing our own evaluation and comparisons with other products. When weighing the costs and benefits of implementing D2 versus other available products like Webtop, TSG’s […]
Experiences with Alfresco Multi Tenancy
Alfresco has long supported Multi Tenancy in their enterprise and community ECM releases. Multi Tenancy allows you to logically separate the repository by tenants. Each tenant is assigned and mantained by a specific domain at login. Some thoughts based on recent client experiences in maintaining and planning an upgraded of a client using a Multi […]
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 […]
Documentum Webtop 5.3 running on Documentum Content Server 6.x
We stumbled across a pretty vague reference in the cross-product dependency guide for Documentum 6.7 SP1 (on page 245) for Webtop (emphasis ours) “Note: Documentum Collaborative Services 5.3 DAR is installed with Content Server 6.7 SP1 repository so Webtop 5.3 & 5.3 SPx will work with Content Server 6.7 SP1. If Documentum Collaborative Services (formerly […]
Documentum – EMC World – Momentum 2012 – Early Predictions
Once again TSG is attending EMC World in Las Vegas – May 21-24. For those interested, early discounts are still available at http://www.emcworld.com/momentum.htm. While not much is known at this point in time about the final agenda list (or who the opening/closing acts are), this post will try to take a guess at the dominant […]
Documentum Contributor Interfaces – D2, Webtop, HPI, and xCP
Part 1 – Document Creation, Checkout, and Checkin After receiving some positive feedback on a previous post comparing the search functionality of Webtop, D2, HPI, and xCP, we decided to continue with our product comparison. This post will compare Webtop, D2, HPI and xCP for From our experience, the user interface for consumers (those who […]
Documentum D2 – Initial Thoughts
Back on November 1st, 2011, EMC/Documentum announced an exclusive licensing agreement with C6, a French Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software provider and long-time partner. Over the holidays a webinar was held that included a live demo of the tool. For this post, we will present our initial thoughts on the product for those evaluating use […]
Supporting Controlled Document Versioning in Alfresco
A key part to any document management system is the ability to version documents. In most cases, the ability to provide minor (1.1 to 1.2), major (1.0 – 2.0) versioning, view version comments, and revert to previous versions is acceptable. However, for controlled documents tied to regulatory mandates, more functionality, specifically in regards to versioning, […]