This spring we are making substantial updates to HPI for a large Documentum insurance client as well as an Alfresco engineering client. Features will include: Compatibility of HPI on Documentum and Alfresco platforms through TSG’s OpenContent web services layer One-click links to the last folders accessed by a user Ability to order and save, or […]
Third Annual TSG Client Briefing – June 3rd – 2010
TSG will be holding our third annual client briefing on June 3, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center from 9 to 4:30. The briefing focuses on TSG facilitation of specific ECM topics with a focus on interaction between clients for experience, lessons learned and best practices. Last year’s briefing included: Introductions – sharing “What […]
Documentum Upgrade: Impact on e-Signatures
As TSG continues to help clients upgrade their Documentum environments to 6.5, support for e-Signatures has required special attention on several of our projects. We thought we’d share a few of our lessons learned below. Lesson Learned #1: Customization is Required to Support e-Signatures on Linux and HP-UX Platforms e-Signatures are NOT supported by EMC […]
Supporting Documentum Implementations – Where Does My Company Fall?
We just had our Spring Documentum Midwest User Group meeting (www.mwdug.com). For the past 2 meetings, we have conducted a survey on a specific topic and delivered the results of the survey at the meeting. At this past meeting we conducted a survey on how companies are supporting their Documentum implementations. The presentation generated a lot […]
Documentum Midwest User Group Spring Meeting – 2010
TSG is responsible (well, actually just Ellen and Bethany) for coordinating the Midwest Documentum User Group (MWDUG) (http://www.mwdug.com) meeting held on April 9th. In talking with some of the attendees, we all agreed that it was one of our best meetings with over 100 attendees. We even had a big group of 8 fly in […]
Documentum Application Builder vs. Documentum Composer
First released with Documentum 6, Documentum Composer is a “unified development platform for assembling, configuring, and deploying EMC Documentum applications.” Currently on version 6.5 SP3, Composer is meant to be a Documentum Application Builder replacement. Although Documentum is trying to move away from Application Builder and into Composer, Application Builder is still available for use […]
Running Documentum and Alfresco applications in a 64-bit environment
With our clients looking at ways to maximize the use of memory on their hardware, we recently had the opportunity to deploy Alfresco and Documentum applications on 64-bit Linux and Windows machines respectively. We learned, and were reminded of, a couple of lessons in the process.
Documentum WebPublisher Custom Navigation Tool
I am working with a large manufacturing client that manages multiple websites with deep levels of navigation. With a site as large and complex as theirs, it causes a struggle to organize and maintain the content through site updates. While some clients have opted for solutions using meta tags to drive the creation of site […]
Documentum Consulting – Understanding the Basics
I was talking with a client yesterday in regards to some of the consultants they have used for Documentum work over the years. Like most large companies, they have used consultants from a variety of companies. For this post, I thought I would detail some of the different options as well as provide some of […]