Last week, we put together an overview of migrations and OpenMigrate for one of our partners. The overview had a couple of interesting analogies regarding migrations as well as best practices that we will share in this post.
Documentum D2 being axed – Documentum City and the rumor mill
Documentum City posted on December 10th questioning “Is Documentum D2 headed for the deadpool?” and then “Documentum D2 is NOT going to the deadpool!” the next day. This post will share our thoughts on both the articles and D2 in general.
Documentum and Alfresco BPM – Activiti and Active Wizard 5.0
As you may know, the latest generation Active Wizard codebase utilizes the Activiti Business Process Management (BPM) Platform to provide dynamic workflow for Active Wizard forms and controlled documents. We started down the path of using Activiti in 2012 when we ported the Active Wizard to Alfresco. You can read more about our initial thoughts […]
Documentum Search – Why the Google appliance just doesn’t cut it
Many experienced Documentum customers have attempted to leverage the Google appliance as an alternative to Documentum Search or as part of an Enterprise Search effort. One of our clients presented their experience at our user group meeting. This post will discuss their findings.
Documentum, Alfresco or a Database – What Developers need to consider
Many times, TSG will get involved with clients that have strong developers on staff that come from a database development background and are unfamiliar with the capabilities of Enterprise Content Management (ECM). As database systems expand from just the data to add related documents, the database paradigm approach will typically lead to database entries with […]
Documentum and Alfresco – Open Source Interface – Preview of HPI 2.1
We are working with a couple of large clients on the latest update for our High Performance Interface (HPI). The 2.1 release will have an all-new interface as well as numerous functions and features not available in the previous release. This post will present a preview of the HPI 2.1 release.
Documentum and Alfresco – Web-based Scanning in HPI
Forget scanning to your desktop or file server, HPI has a new integration with Dynamsoft’s Image Capture Suite and OCR products. Now you can scan single documents directly into your Alfresco or Documentum repository. This capability moves the point of document capture closer to the point of document creation and entry into a business process. […]
Documentum Migration to Alfresco – Making one small mobile/cloud step first
Having already addressed here Why Clients are migrating from Documentum to Alfresco, the major issue most long-time clients have with moving from Documentum to Alfresco is how to take that first step. Legacy Documentum users often have terabytes of documents stored in Documentum and contemplating a move to any platform would be costly and resource […]
Documentum and Alfresco Migrations – Why the Migration Tool is Only Part of the Equation
As the developers of OpenMigrate, we are always amazed by how often a new tool is unveiled that claims to make migrations considerably easier. While we love what we have done with OpenMigrate, we also typically have to educate clients that a migration tool, just like other tools, is only part of the effort. This […]