One of the first questions for any Alfresco implementation is: “how will users search and access documents?”. As longtime readers of the TSG blog will know, we typically recommend against the user “I just was a Google Search” approach. Most of our clients want to target certain document types/scenarios and search on key attributes to […]
Workshare Compare for More Efficient Review and Approval of Document Changes
We have recently been working with multiple clients that have streamlined their review and approval process to increase throughput and decrease turnaround time. One key process improvement is allowing for quick and simple annotations during the review cycle. TSG’s OpenAnnotate provides for quick, browser based annotations and now includes Workshare Compare integration as well. This post […]
Documentum, Alfresco or Hadoop Annotations : Feature Updates for OpenAnnotate 2.5
Over the last six years, OpenAnnotate has evolved from supporting only simple annotations to gradually supporting all XFDF features as well as additional collaboration capabilities. Driven by our clients, OpenAnnotate has added a variety of different functionality including collaboration, highlighting, indexing, and redaction. With a modern approach, OpenAnnotate has successfully replaced numerous legacy annotation tools including Documentum’s PDF Annotation Services […]
Documentum D2 – Why has it failed to replace Webtop?
In a discussion with a long time Documentum client last week that had evaluated D2, some interesting points were raised as to why D2 has failed to replace Webtop. This post will summarize those discussions.
Workshare Compare – available in HPI for Documentum, Alfresco and Hadoop
Comparing documents for differences is a common request with our Compliance clients as well as Legal and other customers. Based on success at one of our clients, TSG has integrated industry leader Workshare Compare with OpenContent to provide document comparison capabilities for HPI or custom built applications on Documentum, Alfresco or Hadoop. This post will present the integration […]
Documentum and Alfresco – What are some of the bigger differences?
Many of the more popular posts over the years have been surrounding Migrating from Documentum to Alfresco and other comparison posts. While some of the differences are obvious (Big Public Company/Division of EMC versus Private Company, 20+ Years old versus 10 Years Old…..), for this post, we thought we would summarize some of the not […]
Enterprise Document Search – A Publishing rather than Crawler/Federated Approach
I met with a client yesterday that was struggling with a typical ECM issue in regards to how to provide for searches against multiple ECM environments. While ECM vendors love to pitch the “one repository to rule them all”, most ECM users have content in a variety of different solutions that have evolved over time. […]
Enhancing Alfresco Share with HPI 2.1 – Document Workflow
TSG will be conducting a Webinar with Alfresco on February 11th (Recording Posted) on how to enhance or extend Alfresco Share with High Performance Interface (HPI) 2.1. This post is the fourth in a series of posts on how HPI 2.1 can work with Share and will focus on Document Workflow.
Enhancing Alfresco Share with HPI 2.1 – Document Processing
TSG will be conducting a Webinar with Alfresco on February 11 (Recording Posted) on how to enhance or extend Alfresco Share with HPI 2.1. This post is the third in a series of posts on how HPI 2.1 can work with Share and will focus on Document Processing.