Most of TSG’s Documentum and Alfresco clients are evaluating Sharepoint as a portal to ECM or to satisfy some of their ECM needs. While TSG has always provided Sharepoint connectivity to ECM with OpenMigrate, ActiveWizard and OpenContent as demonstrated in the links below, Active Wizard OpenContent OpenMigrate Sharepoint Source many of our clients are asking […]
Migrating From FileNet to Documentum: Could OpenMigrate Possibly Do That?
OpenMigrate can be used to migrate large volumes of images and other files from FileNet IDM into Documentum, Alfresco or any other repository. Rather than writing a full FileNet connector, TSG leveraged its JDBC and other existing framework components to quickly extend OpenMigrate to extract from FileNet.
D6.5 JMS Not Starting Properly – Client Authentication Failure
We noticed an issue with one of our Content Servers after our move to the new office a few weeks ago. The JMS wasn’t starting up properly and we were seeing this error in the log file: Error [DM_SESSION_E_CLIENT_AUTHENTICATION_FAILURE]error: “Could not authenticate the client installation for reason: Client hostname in authentication string doesn’t match value in registry”; […]
Documentum Client for Outlook, Notes Connector, iPhone and other thoughts on Content Management and Email
One of TSG’s manufacturing clients is currently evaluating Alfresco for control and management of project related documentation. (Proposals, CAD, Specs….). In working with the client on proof of concept efforts this week, we came across a typical requirement for storing email and attachments easily within Alfresco. In the Documentum world, many of our clients typically […]
Extends vs. Modifies in D6.5 WDK
As more and more of our clients are upgrading to Documentum 6/6.5, we’ve encountered many significant changes between development methods in 5.3 WDK and 6.5 WDK. The good news is they are changes for the better, allowing for more efficient and streamlined development of Webtop customizations. One of the big changes is the ability to modify a […]
Documentum Search – Lucene, FAST, Verity, Google and upcoming DSS
Since the new Documentum Search Services beta program just started last week, we thought we would share some of TSG’s thoughts on full-text search and our plans to add Lucene capabilities to our open source offerings. Documentum Search Services (DSS), was tentatively called Enterprise Search Services (ESS) early in the product development. DSS promises to […]
Active Wizard 4.0 Preview – OpenContent & Active Wizard Lite
Our next release of the Active Wizard will be 4.0, and it will mark the beginning of some big changes for the Active Wizard. Our overall architecture direction is to move to a web services model based on OpenContent. While this change is more of a back-end update that regular users won’t notice, it will […]
Documentum Upgrade – Understanding Impact of WDK Development
It has been TSG’s experience that the biggest effort in most Documentum upgrades is the compatibility of customizations made to Documentum interfaces (Webtop mostly). While many of our clients choose to develop custom interfaces that migrate easily leveraging HPI or OpenContent, this blog post will only address Webtop customizations. As detailed in our Planning Guide […]
Documentum Upgrade to 6.5 – Client experience with Migration versus a Database Clone and In-Place Upgrade
I had an interesting discussion today with a large hospital client that is currently upgrading to Documentum 6.5. Like most of our Documentum customers, the client has chosen to refresh hardware, database, and disaster recovery tools as well as upgrade the operating system (from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10). Initially the client was targeting a […]