For many Documentum customers, deciding how to upgrade a Documentum system often boils down to whether or not to upgrade in-place with a clone or just leave the environment alone and upgrade it in-place on the existing hardware. This year, I worked with a client on a project to explore the differences between upgrading several […]
Documentum Web Services – Documentum DFS and TSG OpenContent
“Why don’t I just use DFS from Documentum instead?” We get his question often from clients. TSG recently had a discussion with a client on this topic. They eventually chose OpenContent over DFS based on the following points: Documentum Support It might seem that a large company would be better positioned to enhance and support any […]
Documentum Upgrade – High Volume Server – A Basic Understanding
Documentum High Volume Server (HVS) is a new product designed to cut database space usage in Documentum 6.5 by a third or even up to one half depending on the type of content. Given the significantly reduced database size, overall performance should increase. This year TSG evaluated HVS for a client as part of a […]
Documentum Migration – Buldoser and OpenMigrate – Folders versus Nodes
In working with a client, I had the opportunity to evaluate Buldoser from Crown Partners versus OpenMigrate from TSG. Buldozer was used to change OS platforms for a Documentum 5.2 Repository while upgrading it to Documentum 5.3. Buldozer failed to migrate a second Repository due to object level complexities. OpenMigrate was then tested in the migration/upgrade […]
Documentum Upgrade – Planning Guide for Documentum Upgrade to 6.5
TSG is announcing the release on our web site of a Documentum Upgrade Planning Guide. The planning guide is a series of questions and tips to help guide your D6 upgrade activities. By filling out the guide, you will receive an email with a custom upgrade guide based on your answers as well as the […]
Active Wizard 3.9 Released!
The Active Wizard latest release is available on the TSG downloads page! This latest release contains functionality added to the product by a number of our clients. The 3.9 release adds the following new features: Form Email Module – The new email module allows an administrator to configure email rules for each form. When the […]
Documentum Consulting and Open Source
I had a good meeting last week with a potential new partner of TSG in regards to how to work together to offer Open Source solutions across our joint customer base. While we have had many firms download our Open Source software (Crown Partners, CSC/FCG, IBM, PWC, Cognizant and EMC themselves to name a few), most […]
Documentum Migration – OpenMigrate for both large migrations and ongoing capture
I was recently at a client struggling with an ECM decision (Alfresco or Documentum) based on connectivity to a scanning data capture solution. Normally the ECM requirement will drive the scanning solution. For this client, capture of data from the image was the driving business justification. After all data was extracted, the client wanted to save […]
Documentum 6.5 LightWeight SysObjects, Captiva and OpenMigrate
One of our clients is upgrading this fall to 6.5 and was disappointed that EMC Documentum Captiva has yet to support LightWeight SysObjects (LWSO) and how that is affecting his plans. In our discussions, the client has considerable content stored as images and documents that he would like to leverage LWSO to reduce the database […]