Our next release of the Active Wizard will be 4.0, and it will mark the beginning of some big changes for the Active Wizard. Our overall architecture direction is to move to a web services model based on OpenContent. While this change is more of a back-end update that regular users won’t notice, it will […]
Documentum Upgrade – Understanding Impact of WDK Development
It has been TSG’s experience that the biggest effort in most Documentum upgrades is the compatibility of customizations made to Documentum interfaces (Webtop mostly). While many of our clients choose to develop custom interfaces that migrate easily leveraging HPI or OpenContent, this blog post will only address Webtop customizations. As detailed in our Planning Guide […]
TSG OpenMigrate Supports Qumas
I’ve been working with a client who needs to consolidate two Qumas content repositories into a single system. Qumas is an Irish company that has a content management solution that runs standalone as well as on top of Documentum. My client was running both Qumas applications on top of Documentum. In working with client, we […]
Documentum Upgrade – Planning Guide for Documentum Upgrade to 6.5
TSG is announcing the release on our web site of a Documentum Upgrade Planning Guide. The planning guide is a series of questions and tips to help guide your D6 upgrade activities. By filling out the guide, you will receive an email with a custom upgrade guide based on your answers as well as the […]
Documentum Open Source Software
In talking with a new client last week, the client asked “Why do you do Open Source software for Documentum, a commercial software package?” As the only long-term Documentum partner to offer all of our software as Open Source, we get that question often. I thought I would use this entry to explain our strategy […]
Common Questions about 6.5 Upgrade
As we mentioned in previous posts, we know upgrades are on a lot of people’s minds as of late. From the Documentum user community, we hear similar questions/statements so we thought it would be helpful to jot down our thoughts in response to these questions: Do I need to reindex all my content with FAST? […]
Increase in downloads of Documentum Open Source from TSG
Over the past couple of months we have noticed a marked increase in the number of downloads of our Open Source offerings for Documentum. Comparing January to June, our downloads have increased 200%. Without engaging in any scientific studies, we can’t help but wonder whether this increase is due to: Continued evolution of the Open […]
Upgrading your Webtop 5.3 Application NOW to simplify your 6.5 upgrade later
As evidenced during EMC World and at our clients, the decision to upgrade to Documentum 6.5 has proven itself more difficult than previous upgrade decisions. While the back-end migration can be fairly straightforward, most users are struggling with the cost, effort and risk of upgrading the front-end Webtop application. As one client put it: “I […]
Pharma Documentum Upgrade Challenges and How to Avoid Them
A majority of our Documentum pharma clients have yet to upgrade from the 5.x platform up to 6. Pharma clients have been long-time users of Documentum and as a result have robust (often highly customized) Documentum installations, causing upgrade costs to soar. In addition, a significant upgrade often means a complete system revalidation which in […]