I attended two interesting presentations on this first day. Chicago Bridge and Iron’s Mark Weaver presented on “Migration and Transformation: Optimizing Complex Migrations at CB & I”. Later in the day, EMC’s Chris Dyde presented on “Documentum Enterprise Migration Appliance – Deep Dive”. This post will summarize thoughts on the two presentations but mostly focus […]
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.
Documentum – EMC World 2014 – Momentum – Early Predictions
This week, May 5th through May 8th, EMC World and the smaller component for Documentum/IIG (Momentum) will again be in Las Vegas again at the Venetian. TSG has attended all the U.S. Momentum’s since the 1996 inaugural event in Miami (18 and counting). One of our more popular series are our thoughts in attending the […]
Documentum – Understanding DQL’s Performance Limitation with xPlore
Retrieving data from a Documentum Repository using DQL is a common and robust process with Documentum. With addition of the xPlore search engine, there are some challenges that experienced DQL users may find unique. This post will discuss our experience with DQL and xPlore.
Documentum – End of Service Life of PDF Annotation Services – OpenAnnotate as a Replacement
cAs an EMC/Documentum customer, yesterday we received a letter from EMC stating, “EMC has decided to discontinue support of PDF Annotation Services (PAS), effective April 30, 2016, so that EMC may concentrate its efforts on current technology.” As we have posted here before, some of the Adobe components of PAS are no longer supported by […]
Documentum and Alfresco Large Migrations – Thoughts on a Hybrid/Rolling Approach
One of the biggest challenges in rolling out new interfaces for ECM is migration from older/legacy systems. We just started working with one financial services client that, in moving toward an Alfresco and HPI 2.1 solution, has initiated a hybrid approach to allow the interface to be introduced quickly while simplifying and reducing the risk […]
Documentum – Would EMC Dump Documentum?
A couple of articles on the internet caught the attention of our clients. The first by Alan Pelz-Sharpe at 451 Research – “It’s Time for EMC and Documentum to go their separate ways” and then a follow-up with quotes by Virginia Backatis titled “Will EMC Dump Documentum?”. Rather than focus on will or should, this post […]
Integrating Alfresco or Documentum with a Learning Management System (LMS)
When presenting TSG’s HPI based Quality Document Management solution to a regulated industry (Life Sciences, Energy, etc.), we often get asked about training requirements. The question is typically asked in one of the following ways: Does HPI support Read & Understood Notifications and tracking? Does HPI have Distribution functionality? Can HPI integrate with a Learning […]
Documentum or Alfresco Annotation Tool – Introducing new OpenAnnotate Features
The number one feature that users request for the OpenAnnotate product is the ability to highlight text or to strikethrough text while annotating. TSG is excited to announce that we have started development of these two highly requested features.