“The system is slow” can be an irritating and often unfounded user complaint about Alfresco or Documentum. To address user concerns, Alfresco or Documentum support resources have to often become detectives and ask questions like “what were you doing, which documents, what time, from what machine….” to try and diagnose the background of the complaint. […]
Alfresco – ADF and OpenContent Comparison- REST Web Services
Earlier this year we wrote about comparing Alfresco Share to OpenContent Management Suite. As part of that comparison series, we mentioned that Share has garnered some concerned attention from Alfresco customers this year when Alfresco announced that Share would be deprecated in future. In moving away from Share, Alfresco has been heavily promoting their Application Development Framework (ADF) as […]
ECM Interfaces – Moving from Legacy to Modern Interfaces
During a TSG presentation at AIIM Executive committee last month, one question raised from the audience was “how would you define a modern interface for ECM”. This post will address some of the concepts and practices TSG implements in building our modern interfaces to differentiate from the legacy interfaces of the past.
Alfresco Share – Folder Comparison with OpenContent Management Suite
As part of our 2018 comparison series between Alfresco Share and the OpenContent Management Suite, we previously discussed the search interface as well as the contributor interface. For this post, we will look into the available functionality for both consumers and contributors when looking at a group of related documents, typically contained within a folder.
IASA 2018 – Visit TSG at Booth 257
See how OpenContent Policy & Claim can help your company modernize its Insurace Content Management Process. TSG will be at IASA next week, June 3rd-6th at Booth 257. Be sure to stop by and check out our OpenContent Policy and Claim solution, OpenAnnotate Video and Alfresco. TSG excels in assisting both large and small insurance […]
Outlook – Direct MSG Drag and Drop Support in OCMS
One feature that many clients ask for is the ability to drag and drop email messages directly from Outlook to OpenContent Management Suite in order to upload the email and any attachments to the ECM repository. Without a plugin or Outlook integration product, this is not possible with native HTML5 controls. For this post, we […]
Records Management Trend – Why the focus on just good enough?
TSG attended the MeR 2018 conference this past week. One consistent theme in multiple presentations was the focus on ‘good enough’ when implementing a records retention program rather than a detailed comprehensive plan that would require combing through compliance laws and policies and implementing complex retention schedules. This post will present our thoughts from the […]
Alfresco Share – Contributor Comparison with OpenContent Management Suite
In the last post of our 2018 Share and OpenContent Management Suite comparison series, we compared Search features between Share and OpenContent Management Suite. For this post, we’re going to compare the the contributor functionality available in Share and compare that to OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS). Our evaluation is based on what is configurable using the out-of-the-box products […]
Document Review and Approval – Why Form AND Workflow are so important
We recently met with a publishing prospect that was looking for a document review and approval approach. As we have been discussing here since back in 2012, there is a significant benefit to having both a form AND dynamic workflow approach rather than just relying on workflow templates. This post will summarize some of the […]