While many of our clients are embracing modern interfaces for new ECM systems, migrating the content from a legacy ECM can often be a difficult effort due to the complexity and cost of a migration. Over the last 21 years, TSG has migrated applications and content for clients from a variety of legacy ECM envrionments (even […]
Box and ECM – What is Box missing?
Box and other Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) tools have been very successful filling the next generation document collaboration needs. Like SharePoint before it, Box and other tools, while being great at sharing files, being successful in collaboration doesn’t necessarily lead to success in ECM. Back in December of 2016, we wrote an […]
Documentum purchase by OpenText finalized – Detailed Analysis and Predictions
Two weeks ago on 1/23/17 Documentum officially became part of OpenText. Most of the analysts, including all of us at TSG, have been recommending clients “wait and see” in regards to how OpenText accommodates their new acquisition. This post will share our analysis and predictions based on our review of OpenText’s initial statements since the […]
Alfresco and Angular 2.0: Technical First Look
In July, Alfresco released a new Angular 2 framework which promises to deliver developers a new modern way to develop custom Alfresco applications. This post will cover what we’ve learned about this new framework. Watch a quick demo of the new Angular Interface. When releasing this framework, Alfresco is actually releasing three different independent pieces. […]
Building a Services Layer for Alfresco – When CMIS is Not Enough
We’ve had a number of clients, especially those migrating from a legacy ECM platform, ask us about how to go about building a services layer for Alfresco. Typically these clients have existing applications that use either a legacy API or proprietary services layer for the old platform. One question that comes up is: “should we […]
Why Can’t I Change My Object Model?
Can you first just tell me what an object model is? In ECM, your object model is king. An object model is the organization of your digital content into specific types of folders and documents, as well as the attributes that reside on each one. It dictates so much about your system, both in the […]
Save Your Sinking Legacy ECM Implementation
Is FUD keeping you locked into a bad ECM Implementation? Fear, uncertainty, and doubt can keep anyone from improving the status quo of a poor, but working, enterprise content management (ECM) system. In addition, a lack of system sponsorship can fail to crystallize the vision for the organization. The business is then stuck with a […]
Automated Redaction for Documentum, Alfresco, Hadoop ECM Repositories
As more business processes are being automated for storing and working with documents in ECM repositories, many companies are encountering a need to redact sensitive information in these documents. Due to clients asking about redaction, TSG released OpenRedact nearly three years ago as a manual way for redacting documents stored in Documentum, Alfresco, or Hadoop ECM repository. Recently we […]
Why should your company move from a shared drive to Enterprise Content Management (ECM)?
In the past, we have talked about why Box will never be a serious ECM – but when we talk to our clients, almost all of them have one or more “shared” drives that are used to store documents. For this post, let’s explore exactly what we mean by a “shared” drive and why your company […]