Support for Documentum Content Server 6.7 and related products (Webtop, TCS, ADTS, DA, etc.) reach end of life on April 30, 2018. Additionally Support for Documentum Compliance Manager (DCM) - all released versions - ends December 31, 2018. This has significant impacts for any clients but particularly regulated clients that have delayed upgrading. While there are a variety of reasons for clients to delay the upgrade including simple things like wanting to stay on ADTS 6.7 (see related post ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum and Alfresco – Versioning, Security and Relationship Differences
One of the more common requirements we see from our manufacturing and operation clients is tight control around document versioning. In some cases, for example Pharmaceuticals, these systems are tightly regulated (and possibly audited) by a government agency such as the FDA. As we see more and more clients choosing Alfresco over Documentum, this post will share our thoughts on compliance requirements as well as how each product handles requirements around versioning and security. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum or Alfresco – Controlled Documents Application – Post Approval Property Updates
One requirement we are seeing more often for regulated clients is the requirement to update certain properties after a document has been formally approved with electronic signature. Typically, clients consider the document and properties to be one approved entity and would require a property change to go through a complete version and approval cycle. Our clients often need the ability to update a subset of these properties. For example, a document is approved and set to become Effective in 2 ... [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 Day 1 – Life Sciences Solution Vision and Strategy
To kickoff EMC World (Momentum) 2014, I attended the session “EMC Life Sciences Solution Vision and Strategy” given by Jennifer Wemstrom and Adam Kelch. I was pleasantly surprised with the content – especially the vision that Jennifer and Adam presented for moving forward in the life sciences sector. ... [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 to Alfresco Migration – TSG Compliance Solution for Regulated Industries
Last week we posted about solutions and how Documentum and Alfresco are focused on providing solutions in different ways. One major solution we see both Alfresco and Documentum targeting is Document Control/Compliance for life sciences, nuclear utilities and other regulated industries. Typically control requirements affect the creation and changing of SOPs, Policies, Procedures, Test Methods, Submission Documents, Engineering Drawings, Specifications, Calculations, Design Documents, ... [Continue Reading]
Predictions for EMC Documentum in 2013
EMC made many significant announcements in 2012 (D2, xCP, D7) that has impacted their user base. Now that the dust has settled, we are making the following predictions as we look forward into 2013: ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World/Momentum 2012 – TSG Recap
Thanks to all subscribers for making this one of our most successful weeks with the blog. We always get lots of feedback that our take on announcements and learning sessions at EMC World/Momentum is our most popular topic. Also, it was great making new friends face to face who opened with “I really like your blog!!!” This post will try to wrap-up and summarize all the other postings, as well as express the TSG opinion on the event. ... [Continue Reading]
EMC World 2012 – May 23rd – What’s Next? ECM Documentum Family Roadmap – Aaron Aubrecht
With a slight Vegas headache, squeezed into the Documentum Family Roadmap session this morning. This post will present the details. ... [Continue Reading]
EMC World – May 22- D2 Life Sciences Solutions
I just attended the 11:30 session on Business Transformation for Life Sciences. This post will discuss the session with our observations. ... [Continue Reading]
EMC World 2012 – May 22nd – Jeetu Patel and Rohit Ghai Keynote – A Roadmap for Transforming Your World
The Technical Keynote is on Tuesday this year. Rohit is VP Products, Jeetu is CSO and CMO. This post will present our notes and thoughts on the presentation. The presentation was very consistent presentation with Rick’s Keynote yesterday. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – Using OpenOverlay to Provide Functionality Not Available in PDF Stamping Services
As readers who use EMC's Documentum Compliance Manager (DCM) product will know, with the 6.5 release there was an architecture switch in the way dynamic overlays were applied to documents with the introduction of PDF Stamping Services (PSS). Prior to version 6.5, PDF Aqua was integrated into the product and customers used it to design and configure the overlays they needed to appear for documents as they moved through different stages of their lifecycle. These overlays could range from simple ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco versus Documentum for Controlled Documentation
Some of our larger regulated industry (Pharma, Utliity…) clients are looking into Alfresco to see if it could be used to manage their controlled documentation and potentially replace Documentum. This post will present our most recent in-depth analysis based on common document control requirements. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Compliance Manager (DCM) 6.5 Upgrade Thoughts
Many Documentum Compliance Manager (DCM) 5.3 users are reaching a decision point on upgrading to DCM 6.5. The typical driver is primary support for DCM 5.3 expired on 12/31/2009 while DCM 6.5 will be supported until 08/31/2012. Typically DCM is used by companies operating in regulated industries (ex: pharmaceutical manufacturing) to meet regulatory requirements around managing their documentation (SOPs, Specifications, etc.) electronically. The product consists of extensions of the current ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Migration to Alfresco – Summary of Series Postings
While TSG will continue posting our experience on clients that are moving from Documentum to Alfresco, this will be our last posting for our series over the summer of 2010. Summaries of the articles are presented below: Documentum Migration to Alfresco – in our first post, we discussed the reasons why clients are choosing to move. Detailed points included price, upgrade, software audit, open source, extranet, development environment, web content management and available tools. Pricing – ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum, Document Control and Alfresco
I was talking to a Life Sciences client that was looking to move away from Documentum for Document Control and they were asking the logical question “Why haven’t more companies moved to Alfresco and Open Source?” For this post, I will try to address some of the reasons as well as present some background on how best practices for Document Control with Alfresco. From an informal discussion with my peers here at TSG, some of the main reasons include: ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum OR SharePoint for Complaince? Thoughts on a mixed approach.
I was at a client yesterday that was struggling in regards to a strategy of SharePoint or Documentum for a compliance application. Complaince is an application that involves control of many documents to insure that the correct approved documents are used at the correct time and can be confirmed during an internal or regulatory audit. For this client, one user group had already implemented a SharePoint solution, complete with Wiki’s and scanned signature pages while the enterprise standard for ... [Continue Reading]
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: ... [Continue Reading]
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 acronyms in every post). When we refer to Momentum, we are referring to the Documentum track at EMC World. Some telling stats from Documentum/Momentum ... [Continue Reading]
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 morning more emerged in regards to details around the roadmap for some of the Information Access suite of products. Based on our thoughts, we would anticipate the following priorities: xCP 2.0 ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum and SharePoint – Key differences for document control applications
We have recently begun working with a couple of clients on potential migration efforts from Documentum to SharePoint for their document control applications. In preparing for these efforts, we are in the process of upgrading OpenContent, OpenMigrate and even parts of HPI to run on either SharePoint or Documentum. For this post, we thought it might benefit those familiar with Documentum to understand the differences for a typical control application. Search Documentum users tend to be pretty ... [Continue Reading]
Migrating From FileNet to Documentum: Could OpenMigrate Possibly Do That?
Frequent readers of the TSG Blog know OpenMigrate is our flexible open source migration framework; that it can be configured or extended to move content and data between different types of repositories; and that it's been used in numerous successful migrations with Documentum, Alfresco, Qumas, Hummingbird and many others. But perhaps you're wondering: "There's no way it could migrate from an old FileNet IDM system, could it? I mean, that system was built for old optical disk storage devices! ... [Continue Reading]
Document Control – Common Best Practices
We had an open-forum discussion on Document Control at the most recent Midwest Documentum User Group meeting. The discussion focused on feedback from various members of the group as well our experience over the years. We received positive feedback that the open discussion format, with multiple people participating, was insightful and are planning on using a similar format to discuss another topic at our next meeting. Below is a list of topics covered with highlights from the ... [Continue Reading]
