TSG just got back from the 2011 Alfresco Sales Kick-off event in Orlando last month. This post will discuss some of our thoughts in regards to the Alfresco team, product updates and partners.
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.
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.
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 […]
Momentum 2010 Recap – Virtual Review – Current Priorities for IIG
While TSG didn’t attend Momentum in Lisbon this year, we did try the new “Virtual Momentum” offered to remote workers. While the interface was sometimes slightly glitchy during normal business hours (viewing over the weekend worked best), the ability to see presentations recorded and synched to slides did work. For the viewing of Rick Devenuti’s […]
Documentum 6.6 Upgrade – Character Encoding Fail – Part II
This week we are urgently reminding clients, as part of their upgrade evaluation, to look seriously for character encoding issues in regards to their current Documentum content and the affect on upgrades.
Virtual Momentum Lisbon 2010 and Midwest Documentum User Group
One last reminder – Midwest Documentum User Group (MWDUG) is coming up this Friday, October 29th, in downtown Chicago – presentations will include American Electric Power, United Airlines, Documentum Roadmap as well as others. There are still spots open if you are interested in attending. http://www.mwdug.com As we were talking to users outside of the […]
Migrating Documentum to Alfresco – User Interface Overview
This is the third post in our series on migrating from Documentum to Alfresco. As we pointed out in our disclaimer in our initial post on this subject, we are not saying Alfresco is better than Documentum, just different. Which Interface to compare? The challenge in comparing Documentum to Alfresco interfaces is both solutions offer […]
Migrating from Documentum to Alfresco – Pricing Differences
As we alluded to in our last post, one of the major differences between Alfresco and Documentum is pricing. While it is easy to say that Alfresco is “cheaper” – that can somewhat imply that the quality of Alfresco limited. In talking to our clients, we realize emphasis that the business and software development model […]