Special Note: Anyone that is planning an upgrade from Documentum 5.3 to 6.5 should look closely at this note as some types of upgrades (clone or in-place) could result in content that was retrievable from 5.3 not being available in 6.5. This post was developed based on recent work for a major pharmaceutical client. The client, […]
Book Review: Documentum 6.5 Content Management Foundations
For the past month, I’ve been reading, referencing, and reviewing the book Documentum 6.5 Content Management Foundations by Pawan Kumar. It is a book designed to help the reader learn enough about Documentum to pass the EMC Proven Professional Exam E20-120. When I first opened it, I thought that it looked very much like the […]
Coming Book Review: Documentum 6.5 Content Management Foundations
I’ve never done a book review before and I was flattered to be contacted and asked to review Pawan Kumar’s new book Documentum 6.5 Content Management Foundations. With some of the most well known and respected Documentum community contributors as technical reviewers
D6.5 Upgrades and Complex Passwords
Recently a client that uses Documentum WebPublisher went live with a D6.5 SP2 upgrade. All the appropriate planning was done in preparation for the launch as detailed in this prior post. The upgrade in the development environment exposed some updates that needed to be made to supporting DFC based applications, but the upgrade process itself […]
Documentum Implementations – "Over Customized" or "Over Sold"
Though-out EMC World, one of the main themes in many of the product presentations (xCP, MyDocumentum…) was a focus on configuration versus customization. As a buyer of Documentum software, it is easy to see why configuration can be better than customization as it:
Documentum and Momentum EMC World 2010 Recap
First off, a couple of clarifications The Content Management and Archiving (CMA) group of products (that included Documentum, Captiva…) has been changed to the Information Intelligence Group (IIG). We (TSG) are just going to stick with “Documentum” to keep things simple and relevant to our reader base. (Plus we save on having to explain the […]
EMC World 2010 – Day 3 – Thoughts on Software Development Kits (SDK) and Documentum
During the EMC Documentum Clients Overview: The New Face of ECM, the presenters (and supporting EMC product managers) were pretty open and honest about what the various “My Documentum” interface tools being configurable but not a development platform. The “My Documentum” suite, for those not familiar, includes solutions for integration with Outlook, Applications (like Word, […]
Day 2 – EMC World 2010
Case management and xCP is the theme I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I wasn’t quite sure of the theme of this year’s Momentum track at EMC World. As we get into Day 2, most of us here agree that xCP is the dominant theme tied to Case Management. Roadmap Updates and EMC Investments This […]
EMC World 2010 – Day 1
This year marks my 15th Momentum/EMC World. For the next couple of posts, we will focus on some of the TSG team’s impressions of the sessions we attend. Look for additional posts from others with their thoughts. Overall Impressions Overall – Documentum user attendance is lower in years past (they mentioned 1,000 at a keynote). […]