During a recent migration from an on-premise Documentum system to Alfresco on Amazon Web Services, a client wanted to check the target repository for document counts and other pertinent information to ensure that the migration executed smoothly. For example, a client may want to query to know “how many documents of type X are in the […]
Documentum 6.7 and ADTS Extended Support Ending on April 30th, 2018
Extended support for the Documentum 6.7 stack, and thus Advanced Document Transformation Services (ADTS) with the Adlib backend, ends on April 30, 2018. For those clients that have not upgraded to the 7.X environment, there is significant risk exposure. As part of our making Documentum better series, TSG is recommending upgrading to Adlib rather than […]
Alfresco and Amazon Web Services – Disrupting Legacy Content Services – Alfresco Day London – Keynote
TSG gave a keynote presentation on December 7th for Alfresco Day London. Our topic “Alfresco and AWS – Disrupting Legacy Content Services” presented our thoughts on how the combination of a movement to the cloud, specifically Amazon’s cloud, along with the additional content created by digital transformation is disrupting the main Legacy ECM vendors. This […]
FileNet – Migrating to Amazon S3
We had an interesting call with an insurance client yesterday currently on FileNet but looking for ways to start to move away from FileNet to a more modern solution, preferably in the cloud. Their existing FileNet implementation was slightly unique in that they didn’t rely on FileNet to store any specific attributes about the document, […]
Documentum – What is the business case to replace it?
Last week after meeting with some FileNet customers, we posted on the developing a business case to replace FileNet. Some of the feedback we got was that the article could be applied to other ECM tools, particularly from Documentum customers. This post will discuss the development of a business case with both a hard and […]
FileNet – What is the business case to replace it?
Last week we met with two different companies considering moving from FileNet to a more modern ECM, Alfresco. For both customers, while they liked some of the features and functions of a more modern interface stressed the need to come up with a good business case. This post will discuss the development of a business […]
Improving Large File Uploads into an ECM by 95%
With the digital transformation of traditional ECM processes, file sizes continue to increase due to more video content and other rich media. Regardless of the ECM solution (Alfresco, Documentum….), one of the biggest issues around digital transformation surrounds uploading large files, particularly in a synchronous mode where users want to upload the file and immediately […]
Alfresco Bulk Import Tool Versus OpenMigrate – What are some of the differences?
TSG has been conducting a number of large migrations for clients (upwards of 1 billion documents) with our OpenMigrate software product. Alfresco offers the Bulk Import Tool as a free option for importing content into Alfresco. While OpenMigrate with its direct file linking option incorporates all of the performance components of the Alfresco Bulk Import […]
EFFS Promises and Legacy ECM Vendors – ECM Article Roundup
A couple of interesting ECM posts from some of the different analysts that were worth sharing over the last couple of weeks. This post will present some of those articles as well as our thoughts.