As mentioned in previous posts, TSG has seen an uptick in clients choosing to finally move from legacy FileNet implementations to a new, modern ECM solution. While a decision to move to a new ECM is often postponed due to cost and time constraints, TSG has just posted a case study from one client’s experience […]
Documentum D2 vs. HPI – A Closer Look at Search
Earlier this year, we posted about HPI Search compared to Documentum Webtop and D2 as well as our thoughts around some of the technical issues with D2. For this post, we thought we’d take a closer look at the options for search with D2 as compared to HPI.
FileNet Migration – Best Practices and Client Experience
Whether it is a trend, just coincidence, or the fading of IBM’s influence in content management, recently we have had multiple clients request migration of FileNet images and documents as part of a long term plan to remove the FileNet/IBM solutions from their infrastructure. This post will share our experience and thoughts around migration from […]
TSG Reviews – Alfresco 5.1.1 Released!
TSG has been eagerly awaiting the release of Alfresco One Enterprise 5.1.1, which landed on July 20th. We’ve had a few weeks to play around with the latest release and this post will summarize our thoughts.
EMC sells Documentum to private equity – what would it look like 1 year later?
With the announcement last April that EMC is looking to sell Documentum, we have always predicted that the likely buyer would be private equity. As followers of EMC/Documentum know, EMC sold off Synchplicity to private equity approximately one year ago. For this blog post, we will compare Gartner’s thoughts on Syncplicity in 2015 (when the […]
ECM Future – the ECM platform/solutions debate and impact of the cloud
A couple of ECM old-timers (Marko and Laurence) posted their thoughts on Content Management – a solution or a platform last month. This post will present our thoughts on the enterprise content management landscape and some of the history of the platform versus solution debate as well as our thoughts in regards to the impact of […]
Documentum – Hosting with Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Half the price, twice the capabilities?
With the news that EMC is looking to sell Documentum, clients that used to be looking at Documentum hosting offerings from EMC are now considering other, better, alternatives including Amazon Web Services. This post will describe the reasons for considering Amazon over EMC/VMWare as well as present some of the technical details of an AWS/Documentum […]
Alfresco – Do More with Your Alfresco Deployment – Adding Documents in HPI vs. Share
Most of the ECM systems we implement have some sort of document upload interface to allow users to add documents to the system. For this post, we will take a look at the common requirements for adding documents and will compare differences between HPI vs. Alfresco Share.
Documentum – Why is EMC struggling to sell it?
Since the announcement of Dell buying EMC back in October of 2015, TSG, as well as most other analysts, has been confident that EMC would sell off Documentum to reduce the debt load. The potential sale was confirmed back in April of 2016 when Bloomberg reported that Documentum was for sale. With 3 months passing, […]