One of the trends we are seeing with our Alfresco clients is a desire to move away from custom interface coding to more configuration or no code approaches. This post will highlight the differences between coding approaches for Alfresco Share and the Alfresco Development Framework (ADF) and configuration approaches with TSG’s OpenContent Management Suite. ... [Continue Reading]
ECM Interfaces – Moving from Legacy to Modern Interfaces
During a TSG presentation at AIIM Executive committee last month, one question raised from the audience was “how would you define a modern interface for ECM”. This post will address some of the concepts and practices TSG implements in building our modern interfaces to differentiate from the legacy interfaces of the past. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Share – Folder Comparison with OpenContent Management Suite
As part of our 2018 comparison series between Alfresco Share and the OpenContent Management Suite, we previously discussed the search interface as well as the contributor interface. For this post, we will look into the available functionality for both consumers and contributors when looking at a group of related documents, typically contained within a folder. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Share – Contributor Comparison with OpenContent Management Suite
In the last post of our 2018 Share and OpenContent Management Suite comparison series, we compared Search features between Share and OpenContent Management Suite. For this post, we’re going to compare the the contributor functionality available in Share and compare that to OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS). Our evaluation is based on what is configurable using the out-of-the-box products without any coding or customization. This post focuses on some of the highlights of document creation, ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Share – Search Comparison with OpenContent Management Suite
Performance and ease of use in a search interface is often one of the highest concerns clients have when deploying Alfresco. Back in April 2016, we presented how to Do More with Your Alfresco Deployment with a configurable search interface. For this post in our 2018 Share and OpenContent Management Suite comparison series, we will be comparing search features in both interfaces. In both cases, we’ll only consider features and functionality that can be configured in the respective interfaces ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Share – Comparison with OpenContent Management Suite Series
Alfresco's out of the box user interface, Share, is typically the collaboration interface most Alfresco clients leverage for their initial development efforts. Alfresco Share has garnered some concerned attention from Alfresco customers this year when Alfresco announced that Alfresco would be deprecating Share in future. To help readers understand the difference between Share and the OpenContent Management Suite, TSG will be posting a blog series on major feature differences over the upcoming ... [Continue Reading]
TSG Reviews – Alfresco 5.1.1 Released!
TSG has been eagerly awaiting the release of Alfresco One Enterprise 5.1.1, which landed on July 20th. We've had a few weeks to play around with the latest release and this post will summarize our thoughts. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco – Do More with Your Alfresco Deployment – Adding Documents in HPI vs. Share
Most of the ECM systems we implement have some sort of document upload interface to allow users to add documents to the system. For this post, we will take a look at the common requirements for adding documents and will compare differences between HPI vs. Alfresco Share. ... [Continue Reading]
Web Annotations – Support for Alfresco Share with OpenAnnotate
TSG is excited to announce the general availability of TSG's Alfresco Share connector for OpenAnnotate to allow replacement of the default Share viewer. Using OpenAnnotate as the Share viewer allows for users to always see any annotations on a document as well as immediately make new annotations. This post will outline the advantages of using OpenAnnotate as the default viewer. ... [Continue Reading]
Do More with Your Alfresco Deployment – Working with Document Versions in HPI vs. Share
For many of our clients, having the ability to quickly and clearly see each version of a document is critical. Version viewing is especially important for our clients in regulated industries like our Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing and Nuclear Power clients. In Alfresco, the ability to quickly view a prior version's rendition is a bit of a challenge. ... [Continue Reading]
Do More with Your Alfresco Deployment – HPI vs. a Custom Search Interface
In the previous post in this series, we compared searching in HPI vs. out of the box interfaces like Share. However, we have seen multiple TSG clients attempt build a search interface from scratch. In this post, we will discuss why it is better and faster to leverage HPI for Alfresco search rather than "rolling your own". ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco 5.1 Released: First Look
Alfresco 5.1 was released yesterday. As a premier partner, TSG received an early release to prepare our clients as well as certify our solutions. This post will share our quick thoughts on the new platform, changes in the new version, and our thoughts on how we are planning to take advantage of some of the new capabilities in our products. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Interface – Differences between Share and HPI
We are working with a couple of different clients that are considering TSG's High Performance Interface (HPI) to as an alternative to Alfresco Share. This post will discuss some of the key differences between the two interfaces for those clients considering alternative Alfresco interfaces. ... [Continue Reading]
Extending Alfresco Security Beyond ACLs
Recently TSG worked with an Alfresco client that had unique requirements around document and folder security. In addition to traditional ACL security, the client needed the ability to tag documents with metadata that would deny users access to content unless they were members of a particular group. This post will focus on our approach for addressing the security requirements in Alfresco. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum or Alfresco – HPI 2.4 adding support for Folder Browsing
We are excited to announce that our latest HPI code base will include Folder Browsing. This post will discuss why we have added it as well as present a video of the early capabilities. ... [Continue Reading]
Upgrading to Alfresco 5 – New Search Features and Solr 4
The latest release of Alfresco One introduced a range of enhancements to the search capabilities in Alfresco Share. With these enhancements also came a significant upgrade to Alfresco’s back-end indexing and search engine, Solr. This article will showcase some of the new search features that are available in Alfresco 5, as well as provide information for successfully upgrading from previous versions of Alfresco and Solr. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Records Management – Using Rules to Make Records Filing Easy for Users
In a previous blog post we wrote about a common enhancement we often make to ECM systems to automatically file documents based on metadata values. Without development work, performing this same function in a DoD 5015.2 compliant records management system was difficult. However, with the release of version 2.2 of Alfresco’s Records Management module, highlighted at Summit London 2014, the same concept can be extended to automatically file records. This post will describe how to take the guess ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco or Documentum Collaborative Document Reviews with OpenAnnotate
Whenever we give a demo of OpenAnnotate, clients always ask, "What happens when multiple users need to review a document at the same time?" OpenAnnotate has always supported having multiple users annotating a document at the same time, but a recent client has added functionality which broadcasts "live" the annotations and comments that users are making. This makes the review process in OpenAnnotate more collaborative. This post will outline some things to look for when evaluating your options ... [Continue Reading]
Harnessing the Power of Alfresco Data Lists for Cascading Value Assistance
One of the most common Alfresco customization requests that we receive from our clients is for a way to allow metadata constraint lists to be managed by business users, rather than by IT. TSG has developed an Alfresco Module Package (AMP) that allows picklist values to be managed using the data list functionality in Alfresco Share. See our previous post on Alfresco Data List-Driven Value Assistance for more information on this module. This post will focus on recent enhancements to the Data ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum or Alfresco – Redacting Sensitive Information with OpenRedact
As more business processes are being automated for storing and working with documents in ECM repositories, many companies are encountering a need to redact sensitive information in these documents. Solutions exist for doing the redaction such as Brava and Redact-it, but these solutions are expensive and difficult to support. TSG is proud to introduce OpenRedact, an open source web-based redaction tool for redacting sensitive information on documents stored in Documentum or Alfresco. ... [Continue Reading]
Enhancing Alfresco Share with HPI 2.1 – Summary of Series Posting
In preparation for our webinar with Alfresco on February 11th (recording has been posted) on how to enhance or extend Alfresco Share with HPI 2.1. This post is the summary of a series of posts on how HPI 2.1 can work with Share. ... [Continue Reading]
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. ... [Continue Reading]
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. ... [Continue Reading]
Enhancing Alfresco Share with HPI 2.1 – Folder 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 second in a series of posts on how HPI 2.1 can work with Share and will focus on Folder and Document Processing. ... [Continue Reading]
Enhancing Alfresco Share with HPI 2.1 – Search and Document Display
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 first in a series of posts on how HPI 2.1 can work with Share and will focus on Search and Document Display. ... [Continue Reading]
