Many of the TSG customers and prospects are struggling with old versions of Content Manager and Content Manager onDemand that have lived for decades with millions and even billions of documents. With the 2016 announcement that, while still being branded as IBM CMOD, all future development has been moved to UNICOM, most customers are looking for a way to begin to migrate away from the product. For clients looking to reduce the cost of supporting CM or CMOD as soon as possible, TSG can ... [Continue Reading]
FileNet Migration to Amazon Web Services – Why now more than ever?
TSG is currently finalizing a case study on a client that has successfully moved from an legacy on-premise FileNet system to Amazon Web Services. In preparation for that piece coming out in the next two weeks, we thought we would write some of our thoughts on why so many clients, after years of delaying migration efforts, are finally moving off of FileNet to Amazon Web Services. ... [Continue Reading]
FileNet and CMOD – Will IBM finally sell them and potentially buy Box?
One of our more controversial posts over the last couple of years was back in 2017 “FileNet – Is IBM Planning on Selling it”. We had some interesting follow-up – particularly on LinkedIn from some folks at IBM that were not to happy with our analysis. At the time we stated that “we would expect that IBM would sell off FileNet and potentially Content Manager within the next two years”. With two years coming up in May and the recent news of IBM selling off Notes and buying Red ... [Continue Reading]
FileNet and Content Manager (CMOD) Migration to Amazon Web Services – Why Now?
As many long-time readers know, TSG has been assisting clients with migrating from Legacy ECM platforms including FileNet, Documentum, OpenText and others for years. Recently we have noticed an uptick in interest, RFPs, and implementation efforts to migrate customers not only from the Legacy ECM system but also to the cloud and specifically Amazon Web Services. This post will specifically focus on the legacy IBM ECM suite that includes FileNet and Content Manager/Content Manager on Demand and ... [Continue Reading]
