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.
Documentum Upgrade to 6.7 – a simple approach
Back in July, we wrote a lessons learned post regarding upgrading from Documentum 6.5 to Documentum 6.7. We have a client that recently completed, by himself, a Documentum upgrade from 6.5 SP3 to 6.7 SP1. While TSG often assists clients in the Documentum upgrade process, some clients are very capable of performing upgrades on their […]
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.
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. […]
Documentum to Alfresco Migration – Why Now?
In 2012, we have seen an increased number of clients either migrating or evaluating a migration from Documentum to Alfresco. With significant changes in the last two years, we have decided to refresh our postings from 2010 as well as a client interview in 2011 where we presented detail on some of the justification to […]
Documentum D2 4.0 – Initial TSG Review
At EMC World and in subsequent marketing efforts, Documentum has created quite a buzz around the D2 v4.0 release. Documentum is promoting that D2’s powerful configuration services can deliver a modern client interface while simplifying the application implementation via configuration rather than code. Many Documentum users struggle with any new Documentum release in regards to […]
Documentum Maintenance – 21% and rising….
We received an interesting email from a client last week asking us about Documentum maintenance. While we have posted articles on smart ways to manage Documentum maintenance contracts, we were somewhat surprised that the inquiry was in response to a maintenance bill, that without any explanation, increased maintenance to 21% from the usual 18%. The client […]
Documentum and Alfresco – Evolution of the HPI Desktop for Case Management by Insurance Clients
One of the more popular uses of HPI within our Documentum or Alfresco client base is for case management, specifically insurance clients. Some of our previous posts have included an interview with a claims processing user as well as other general posts. We also have multiple videos about insurance implementations and related folders in our learning […]
Documentum – Replacing External SharePoint Sites with a Simple Cached Approach
Many clients struggle with providing Documentum access to external users. Often times, access to “full featured” interfaces like D2 or Webtop can overwhelm simple retrieval of limited content. This post will discuss a simple solution developed for one of our clients.