IBM recently announced a new Quick Start capability for FileNet to run in AWS. This post will share our thoughts and try to better explain the “cloud native” concept with a comparison between FileNet’s offering, Alfresco’s offering and TSG’s own DynamoDB offering with some detail on how the three different offerings run in Amazon Web […]
Azure Stack for ECM – On Premise with Cloud Infrastructure and Object Store
We have recently been working with clients that have plans to leverage cloud technology and innovations but have concerns about moving their content to the cloud. For one client, we looked into Azure Stack, which allows for extending the capabilities of the Azure ecosystem to be hosted within a datacenter, as a starting point for […]
AODocs Migration with OpenMigrate
TSG has recently begun a partnership with AODocs, a new player in the Content Services Platform space. This post will present some background on AODocs as well as demonstrate a Documentum to AODocs migration with our product, OpenMigrate. AODocs Background AODocs is a software solution owned by Altirnao. They are a new company founded in […]
FileNet Migration – Not as hard as you think?
Over the last 10 years, TSG has been helping clients migrate away from old, legacy FileNet systems. We started blogging back in 2010 and included updates in 2016, as well as our more recent success with over 4 billion documents in 2020. While TSG has always believed that there will never be an easy button […]
FileNet Support – Migrating to mitigate the risk of an unsupportable product
As part of our recent migration of an over 4 billion document client from FileNet, TSG had the chance to have detailed discussions with multiple clients on the reasons they were moving away from FileNet to a more modern alternative. In this post we will discuss the most pressing reason, the large and growing risk […]
FileNet Migrations – Best Practices for Large Migrations
TSG just completed the bulk of activities to migrate over 4 Billion documents for a large health insurance company. This was one of our most complex migrations ever with over 4 billion documents and both legacy FileNet Image Services as well as a large amount of the content in FileNet P8. For this post we […]
Migrations – Why do they fail? (12 Worst Practices)
TSG has had some interesting conversations with various client prospects recently who were interested in TSG’s best practices for migrations. While you can find a lot of references here to migration best practices (One Step vs Two, File Formats Lessons, Migrating 11 Billion Documents) , we thought for this post we would be slightly more […]
Print to Repository – OpenContent Print Driver Support
TSG has been working with a client recently that needs the ability to print directly to the repository. This post will present both the old way of printing to the repository as well as our new OpenContent Print Driver to allow printing to the repository with a consistent web-based indexing user experience.
Mobius Content Services Migrations with OpenMigrate
TSG has recently seen several existing and new clients looking to migrate content from Mobius Content Services to other Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platforms. Reasons for migrating include consolidation of disparate ECM systems, the desire to move to a NoSQL ECM such as TSG’s DynamoDB and Hadoop solutions, and the need to regularly extract content […]