Announced on September 12th, OpenText is purchasing the assets of the Enterprise Content Division of EMC (that includes Documentum among other products). For more thoughts, see our Detailed Analysis and Predictions. While predictions around the web vary on the future of the combined offerings, one common, very valid concern based on OpenText’s history, is: what […]
Microsoft Azure HDInsight for ECM on Hadoop
As we have posted in the past, Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure offering has been a very attractive option for companies looking to outsource some, or all, of their infrastructure. Microsoft, while a little late to the market, has put together a comparable suite of tools to Amazon’s AWS offerings, including a very robust Hadoop […]
Build a Consumer Interface for Documentum – Client Case Study
With the recent purchase of Documentum by OpenText, many Documentum customers are concerned about what will happen to the products they have been using over the past decade. Customers should look at reducing their risk and reliance on EMC’s products, prices and services that will soon be under the control of OpenText. One major way to reduce […]
Documentum D2 vs. HPI – Administration
Both TSG’s High Performance Interface (HPI) and Documentum D2 are driven by extensive configurations made in an administration module. In this post, we will overview the administration components available in HPI and D2 and demo making a search form configuration update in both applications.
Documentum bought by OpenText – Box makes their play for Documentum’s Life Sciences
A variety of articles around the web (good listing of the different articles by John Mancini of AIIM) in regards to the June 12th purchase of the EMC’s ECD division (that includes Documentum) by OpenText including our own Analysis and Predictions. As different vendors position themselves to benefit by the disruption of the purchase, we thought […]
Documentum bought by OpenText – what do OpenText customers think?
While most of the focus in regards to the announcement this month of the purchase of Documentum by OpenText has been on what will happen to the Documentum customers, we got some insight from this week’s ARMA conference in regards to OpenText client thoughts. This post will share our thoughts as well as present some […]
Electronic Signatures Digital Annotation in PDF Documents with OpenAnnotate
TSG has just completed another enhancement to OpenAnnotate to allow for users to electronically sign documents using their finger or mouse to put their “wet signature” on a document as a digital annotation. This post will outline TSG’s methodology for performing electronic signatures in a variety of different ways.
Top 5 Differences between Records Management and Document Management
Several of our clients have been wrestling with the topic of Information Governance (IG) and the difference between Records Management (RM) and Document Management (DM). We participated in several discussions while at NIRMA where the need to incorporate Electronic Document Management functionality is falling under the Records Management department. Long term, records managers are looking at Records Management solutions […]
OpenText Purchase of ECD – What do mega-mergers mean in regards to innovation? – Alfresco Guest Blog
Dave Giordano, our founder and President, was recently invited to be a guest author on Alfresco’s blog to share his thoughts on the recent purchase of Documentum by OpenText. As an early Documentum partner and 20 year attendance of all the US based Momentums (Documentum user conference), Dave is uniquely qualified to provide his thoughts on […]