Update: Read Adlib's thoughts on the upcoming EOL of ADTS here. Documentum has announced the end of life for support for the Advanced Document Transformation Services as Dec 31, 2016. One of the little known changes between the Documentum 6.7 and 7.x versions was that Documentum changed the underlying transformation engine. Formerly based on Adlib (an industry leader in transformation), the new product, named Content Transformation Services (CTS), is based on Aspose. This post will discuss ... [Continue Reading]
EMC World 2016 – Momentum – Recap – #MTMM2016
This post will present final thoughts on the Momentum component of EMC World, the Documentum roadmap as well as the announcements on Leap, the new name for the Project Horizon initiative. ... [Continue Reading]
EMC World 2016 – Day 2 – ECD Roadmap and Vision
A two hour ECD Roadmap session was the bulk of the second day as the morning was partner meeting and other EMC presentations. This post will present our thoughts on the roadmap. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World 2015 – Overall ECD Product Vision and Roadmap – Ahson Ahmad and Mark Arbour
Earlier this week, we wrote about the Documentum Platform Roadmap. We, along with many other attendees, mistook the first day’s session as the overall roadmap rather than just the Documentum Platform. This post will describe the overall Roadmap and present our thoughts. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World 2015 – Rohit Ghai President EMC Enterprise Content Division – What’s Next
The Keynote is always the real beginning of the Momentum conference. Rohit Ghai is the new leader of the renamed Enterprise Content Division (formerly Information Intelligence Group) that includes Documentum. This post will share our thoughts about the keynote. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Content Server 6.7 – Primary Support Ending April 30, 2015 – What should clients do?
At EMC World 2014, Rick Devenuti shared 13 minutes into his keynote that only 25% of Documentum customers had upgraded to the Content Server 7.x after over 18 months of 7.x being available. While Rick spun this news to the positive, we had been posting since 2013 that many of our clients were hesitant to upgrade despite at Documentum 6 to Documentum 7 was nothing like the upgrade clients experienced for previous releases. While Rick Devenuti has recently left IIG (now ECD), for the clients ... [Continue Reading]
Enterprise Content Management Predictions – 2015
This post will give some thoughts in regards to the futures of ECM and what we would expect in 2015. In looking back, we neglected to do a predictions last year. See our post detailing our 2013 predictions for Documentum. This post will compare our thoughts and predictions in the past for the previous two years as well as give our thoughts for the upcoming year. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum 8 – Why and When, thoughts on the Documentum Roadmap
As readers might remember, in our recap of EMC World 2014 back in May, we thought one significant non-announcement was that there was no Documentum 8 on the roadmap. In briefing our clients over the past 6 months, we thought we would share some of our thoughts on Documentum 8 and thoughts on the Documentum Roadmap. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – Momentum EMC World 2014 Recap – Some bunts, hits as well as some swings
In talking about our overall thoughts of EMC World and Momentum 2014, I thought I would resurrect our baseball analogy from where we felt Documentum was too often swinging for the fences with grandiose product plans and relationships that were turning into more strikeouts than runs. As we mentioned in 2013, we were impressed with the new focus on more practical product development plan and roadmaps that were being accomplished. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – Momentum EMC World 2014 – InfoArchive, aPaaS, xDB and thoughts on the “third platform”
Significant announcements tied to Rick’s Keynote seem to be around the new product – InfoArchive, as well as the future direction aPaaS, application platform as a service. For this post, we will try to summarize a variety of different sessions on InfoArchive as well as aPaaS and give our thoughts for impact to the current Documentum user base. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – Momentum – EMC World 2014 – Vision Strategy and Roadmap Presentation
Immediately after the IIG / Documentum Keynote on Tuesday morning was the popular IIG / Documentum Vision Strategy and Roadmap presentation given by Aaron Aubrecht. As usual, this event was jammed packed. Slightly different format this year. See our thoughts below and let us know yours. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – Momentum – EMC World 2014 – Day 2 – Rick Devenuti Keynote
The keynote is always the most significant event at Momentum. Last year, the significant announcement was EMA – a migration utility – see our write-up on 2014. This year’s presentation did not include any major announcements. Typically the presentation is shared on YouTube – we will add the link once available. Please forgive any typos – trying to get to next presentation… ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – Upgrading to Documentum 7 in Three Weeks
Many of our clients have end of year deadlines for projects. One of our newest clients contacted us with an unprecedented challenge – could we upgrade them from 32-bit Documentum 6.5 SP1 to 64-bit Documentum 7.0 Patch 12 by early December given availability of certain funds. This post will present the project and some best practices in regards to the upgrade. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World/Momentum 2013 – TSG Recap
Thanks to all of you that again made our Momentum EMC World our most successful posting days. This year was an interesting time. It really made our day to get feedback that many of you look forward to the summaries as well as how the blogs throughout the year have helped with Documentum-related decisions throughout the year. This post will try to wrap-up and summarize all the other postings, as well as express TSG's opinion on the event. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World 2013/Momentum – Day 2 – Migrations and Upgrades
Interesting topic for 8:30 a.m. meeting after an open Vegas Bar (and a pretty good party - kudos to IIG). Migrations and Upgrades: Introducing EMA, the EMC Migration Appliance. With Chris Dyde and Mike Mohen. This post will present our thoughts on the presentation. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World 2013 – Momentum – Day 1 – EMC Documentum 7.0 Roadmap
One of the better roadmap presentations was given by Aaron J. Aubrecht and Patrick Walsh. Some great useful and candid information. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World 2013 – Day 1 – Life Sciences D2 Solutions
This blog post will summarize Documentum’s D2 solutions for the life sciences industry. There was one presentation at 11:30 covering the currently released solutions and one at 2:30 covering the solutions that are upcoming. Tuesday @ 11:30 – Life Sciences: Compliance, Productivity and Secure Collaboration Tuesday @ 2:30 – Life Sciences: What’s New & Next – EMC Documentum Life Sciences Solution Suite Roadmap ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World 2013 Momentum – Day 1 – Rick Devenuti Keynote
Not a ton of information in the Joe Tucci overall EMC Keynote as it relates to the Documentum Community. First major keynote was Rick Devenuti – CEO of Information Intelligence Group – slightly different from last year's keynote. This post will cover thoughts from this year. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World/Momentum 2013 – Day .5 Migration and Upgrades: Upgrade to Lower costs and Unleash the Power of EMC Documentum Platform 7.0
Attending the first session with David Mennie, Patrick Walsh and Peggy Ringhousen - Peggy did a great job last year with the D2 Unveiling last year so I thought I would check this out. Got some great information and preview of later presentations. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World 2013 – Momentum – Early Predictions
On May 6th through May 9th, EMC World and the smaller component for Documentum/IIG (Momentum) will kick off in Las Vegas again at the Venetian. TSG has attended all the U.S. Momentum’s since the 1996 inaugural event in Miami. Once the agenda is published, we like to post our predictions on what attendees will see compared to previous events. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Upgrades – Handling eSignatures in Documentum 6.6+
Starting in Documentum Content Server 6.6, using the eSignature mechanism uses iText rather than PDF Fusion to create the electronic signature page. Documentum made this move to iText in order to be able to support creating eSignatures when the content server was running on a Unix/Linux environment, which was previously unsupported. Using the eSignature mechanism still requires a TCS (Trusted Content Services) license from EMC. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum D7 – Initial Thoughts
As many Documentum customers know, the end of 2012 saw the initial official release of Documentum D7, something that was announced back at EMC World in May. We have recently been evaluating the release to determine what’s new, what’s changed, and what the potential impacts could be for our clients as they plan for the future. We will be posting to the blog over the next weeks as we proceed through our evaluations and test upgrade paths so be sure to stay tuned, but we wanted to share some ... [Continue Reading]
