With the recent announcement that the Documentum Developer Edition is being discontinued – Bidding Farewell to Developer Edition, we thought it would be a good time to update our previous post from 2010 in regards to development differences between Documentum and Alfresco. This post will compare and contrast development environments and philosophy with both Alfresco and Documentum.
Documentum to Alfresco Migration – Alfresco as a front-end, Documentum for Archival?
We had an interesting call with a client yesterday that is looking for content management capabilities for BIMserver. BIMserver (www.bimserver.org) is an opensource Building Information Modelserver. In this case, the BIMserver already integrates with Alfresco . Unfortunately an internal company mandate specifies that Documentum be used for long-term record retention. Unfortunately we are seeing this scenario […]
Predictions for EMC Documentum in 2013
EMC made many significant announcements in 2012 (D2, xCP, D7) that has impacted their user base. Now that the dust has settled, we are making the following predictions as we look forward into 2013:
Documentum to Alfresco Migration – Comparing Company Visions
One of the best things about the Documentum (Momentum) and Alfresco (Devcon) user events is that many of the sessions have been posted on the Web for review. As part of our ongoing series about migrating from Documentum to Alfresco, this post will discuss thoughts and strategies around company vision.
Activiti BPM Engine – Active Wizard 5.0
As mentioned in our previous post about managing controlled documents in Alfresco, Active Wizard 5.0 utilizes the Activiti BPM platform for dynamic workflow processes. If you’re curious about how dynamic workflow works in the Active Wizard, check out this post from earlier this year, which we wrote after we had posted our initial thoughts about Activiti. In […]
Migrating from Documentum to Alfresco – Controlled Documents – Introducing Active Wizard 5.0
TSG has over 15 years experience building systems to manage controlled documents. Most of these systems have been built on top of Documentum for clients in various industries including Pharmaceuticals, Nuclear Energy, Manufacturing and others. When talking to these clients about their thoughts on moving from Documentum to Alfresco, the inevitable conversation comes up: “How […]
Migrating from Documentum to Alfresco – Cost Differences
Back in 2010, we posted an article on the pricing differences between Documentum and Alfresco. With our series this year, this post will update our thoughts.
Organizing Documents for Easy Management
While working with a couple of clients recently the question of how best to organize documents in their ECM systems came up. Both had started organizing documents by department but then realized for the long-term that organizing by document type worked better. While no one-way of organizing information may fit every ECM implementation this post […]
Documentum to Alfresco Migration – Maturity of the platforms
This is the second post in our series discussing why clients are migrating or considering migrating to Alfresco from Documentum. In our first post on Migration from Documentum to Alfresco – Why Now, we had a comment posted that Documentum was more mature than Alfresco implying that Documentum was a better choice for enterprise solutions. […]