ECM customers are no strangers to license costs. But year-over-year price increases and per-user licenses for a growing company can put a strain on any budget. In addition, most ECM platforms today come packaged with an “everything and the kitchen sink” user interface. The complex nature of such interfaces requires a large amount of user […]
Documentum and Alfresco – Versioning, Security and Relationship Differences
One of the more common requirements we see from our manufacturing and operation clients is tight control around document versioning. In some cases, for example Pharmaceuticals, these systems are tightly regulated (and possibly audited) by a government agency such as the FDA. As we see more and more clients choosing Alfresco over Documentum, this post […]
Document Management – What It Is and Why You Need It
Many people in the world live and breathe document management and they may not even know it. The tools are built into their every day life and ideally make their jobs easier. Unfortunately, a majority of people in enterprises are sometimes leveraging tools that are not true document management solutions. A basic understanding of what true […]
2017 ECM Thoughts and Predictions as well as recap of 2016 postings
With the beginning of 2017, it is time for our annual thoughts from our blog from 2016 as well as the ECM industry in general. Biggest news of the year – Dell purchases EMC, OpenText purchases Documentum from Dell Clearly the biggest news of the year for our readers was the purchase by Dell of […]
Avoiding Alfresco Performance Problems from Day 1 – Keeping My ECM Healthy
One of the great things about Alfresco is that it offers all-in-one installation packages to make installation simple on both Windows and Linux servers. With a few clicks, you can have an Alfresco repository deployed and running in a matter of a few minutes. This is especially useful when setting up development environments. When using […]
Alfresco’s Transactional Metadata Query System – Mystery Results
With the release of version 5.0, Alfresco officially stopped supporting the Lucene indexing subsystem, leaving Solr as Alfresco’s lone indexing solution. A major benefit of leveraging Lucene was its in-transaction indexing, making content searchable as soon as it was created. Solr, however, utilizes asynchronous indexing which leads to “eventual consistency”, meaning newly created content is not searchable right away. This […]
Top 5 Differences between Records Management and Document Management
Several of our clients have been wrestling with the topic of Information Governance (IG) and the difference between Records Management (RM) and Document Management (DM). We participated in several discussions while at NIRMA where the need to incorporate Electronic Document Management functionality is falling under the Records Management department. Long term, records managers are looking at Records Management solutions […]
OpenText Purchase of ECD – What do mega-mergers mean in regards to innovation? – Alfresco Guest Blog
Dave Giordano, our founder and President, was recently invited to be a guest author on Alfresco’s blog to share his thoughts on the recent purchase of Documentum by OpenText. As an early Documentum partner and 20 year attendance of all the US based Momentums (Documentum user conference), Dave is uniquely qualified to provide his thoughts on […]
NYPIUA Accelerates Productivity with Alfresco and TSG – Press Release
SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alfresco Software, a leading provider of modern enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) software, announced that the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association (NYPIUA), in conjunction with Alfresco partner Technology Services Group (TSG), is leveraging Alfresco One, an ECM platform and TSG’s High Performance Interface (HPI) as its new […]