Extended support for the Documentum 6.7 stack, and thus Advanced Document Transformation Services (ADTS) with the Adlib backend, ends on April 30, 2018. For those clients that have not upgraded to the 7.X environment, there is significant risk exposure. As part of our making Documentum better series, TSG is recommending upgrading to Adlib rather than move to Documentum Content Transformation Services or Blazon. This post will document our thoughts. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – End of Life for ADTS Dec 31, 2016 – Remove the risk of unreliable content transformation services
Update: Read Adlib's thoughts on the upcoming EOL of ADTS here. Documentum has announced the end of life for support for the Advanced Document Transformation Services as Dec 31, 2016. One of the little known changes between the Documentum 6.7 and 7.x versions was that Documentum changed the underlying transformation engine. Formerly based on Adlib (an industry leader in transformation), the new product, named Content Transformation Services (CTS), is based on Aspose. This post will discuss ... [Continue Reading]
PDF Renditions – leveraging Adlib as a high volume web based service
One of our high volume ECM clients has a need to convert many word documents on demand as part of a rolling migration approach. TSG is a partner with Adlib, the premier rendition services provider. In brainstorming with the client as well as Adlib, TSG has designed a massively scalable solution with Amazon Web Services to provide high quality renditions as a web based service rather than an on premise solution with a per rendition pricing model. This post will describe the ... [Continue Reading]
TSG’s Top 10 list from the NIRMA 2015 Nuclear Records Conference
This week TSG again attended the annual NIRMA conference in Las Vegas to both exhibit and co-present with one of our long-term nuclear clients. If you are not familiar with NIRMA it is the Nuclear Information and Records Management Association. This organization provides guidance in regards to paper and electronic records programs, compliance, and technologies to commercial, utility, and government agencies. TSG solutions are at multiple nuclear clients. This post will highlight our thoughts ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop for Enterprise Content Management – Adding PDF Renditions with Adlib
As we have discussed in our Hadoop Series, more and more companies are considering Hadoop for storage and management of documents and files. Just like our ECM clients, companies storing documents or scanned files in Hadoop want to provide PDF renditions of documents for easy viewing and other PDF capabilities. This post will discuss how Adlib can be leveraged with Solr/Lucene behind TSG’s OpenContent layer to provide robust ECM capabilities for your Hadoop repository. ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop Document Transformations Using Adlib
In our series exploring the use of Hadoop for ECM, the best practice from our years of ECM experience tells us is that documents should be stored in both their native content as well as a PDF rendition of the content. Storing a PDF rendition allows consumers quick access to view the content, as well as being able to watermark and control the content to prevent consumers from altering the documents. This post will explore TSG's partnership with Adlib and how we are using Adlib's PDF conversion ... [Continue Reading]
