This week we are urgently reminding clients, as part of their upgrade evaluation, to look seriously for character encoding issues in regards to their current Documentum content and the affect on upgrades.
Virtual Momentum Lisbon 2010 and Midwest Documentum User Group
One last reminder – Midwest Documentum User Group (MWDUG) is coming up this Friday, October 29th, in downtown Chicago – presentations will include American Electric Power, United Airlines, Documentum Roadmap as well as others. There are still spots open if you are interested in attending. http://www.mwdug.com As we were talking to users outside of the […]
Documentum Retention Policy Services – Thoughts on Performance
TSG recently worked with a client evaluating EMC’s Retention Policy Services (RPS) product. For those unfamiliar with RPS, RPS is used for automating content retention and disposition, while also allowing for holds that prevent disposition. Additional information can be found on the EMC website here: http://www.emc.com/products/detail/software2/retention-policy-services.htm The client liked many of the features of the […]
Documentum Scanning – Top Tips
Tied to last week’s post in regards to alternatives to InputAccel/Captiva, this week’s post will discuss some of the top tips in regards to scanning in Documentum. As mentioned in the previous article, these points related to scanning in general and not just Input Accel/Captiva. For our Alfresco and SharePoint readers, all of the below […]
Documentum Scanning – Trying TWAIN and other approaches
As we have talked about in other posts, sometimes Documentum users can get stuck in a word association game in regards to adding capabilities to Documentum. Going off the Documentum product pricing sheet revels some common responses: Workflow -> BPM Migration -> Buldoser PDF Overlays -> PDF Aqua or new PDF Stamping Services Annotation -> […]
MyDocumentum for SharePoint Part II
We (TSG) just finished an evaluation for one of our clients of MyDocumentum for SharePoint. Initially, the client wanted to leverage the MyDocumentum for SharePoint product as part of their effort to have SharePoint users contribute content to Documentum. The client had unused licenses to the product as part of their enterprise purchase agreement. As […]
Documentum User Groups – Thoughts and Best Practices
The Midwest Documentum User Group meeting coming up on October 29th, (visit http://www.mwdug.com/ if you are interested in attending). As usual, Ellen and Bethany have put together a great agenda including: United Airlines, Fedex and American Electric Power presenting. Deep Dive on xCP Review of the Documentum Roadmap Panel Discussion with Discover, AEP, Abbott and […]
MyDocumentum for SharePoint (MDSP) – Some Initial Thoughts
As SharePoint continues to gain traction as a collaboration tool of choice, it is increasingly common for many of the organizations utilizing it as well as Documentum to struggle with how to get these two technologies to coexist. How can users seamlessly search and view content managed by Documentum from SharePoint sites? How can users […]
Adobe Livecycle and ActiveWizard Comparison
Similar to our Open Source efforts, most of our ideas for posts come from clients. For this post, we will address a question from a client evaluating Adobe LiveCycle ES2 and TSG’s Active Wizard as part of a forms effort. “In a nutshell, what are the differences between Adobe LiveCycle and Active Wizard?” This is […]