We’re working with a large Pharmaceutical company to install Documentum xPlore as a replacement for FAST. We’ve just finished the QA environment deployment, and we’re planning for the Production deployment in mid-April. For this post, we are going to discuss the cutover strategy as well as some lessons learned from the project.
Documentum D2 – Summary of Previous Posts
Since EMC’s announcement of Documentum D2 late last year, there has been a lot of buzz, and we’ve received a number of inquiries regarding the functionality and underlying technologies of the product. For those who are interested in finding out more information about D2, we would recommend checking out our earlier posts and screen cams […]
Working with Folders in Documentum User Interfaces – D2, Webtop, HPI, and xCP
When developing a taxonomy for an ECM implementation, the question of how heavily to use folders to classify content always arises. Out-of-the-box implementations of Documentum using WDK applications, like Webtop, typically rely heavily on creating new content in folders, as well as using folder trees to find documents. TSG has had a lot of success […]
Documentum Webtop 5.3 running on Documentum Content Server 6.x
We stumbled across a pretty vague reference in the cross-product dependency guide for Documentum 6.7 SP1 (on page 245) for Webtop (emphasis ours) “Note: Documentum Collaborative Services 5.3 DAR is installed with Content Server 6.7 SP1 repository so Webtop 5.3 & 5.3 SPx will work with Content Server 6.7 SP1. If Documentum Collaborative Services (formerly […]
Documentum – EMC World – Momentum 2012 – Early Predictions
Once again TSG is attending EMC World in Las Vegas – May 21-24. For those interested, early discounts are still available at http://www.emcworld.com/momentum.htm. While not much is known at this point in time about the final agenda list (or who the opening/closing acts are), this post will try to take a guess at the dominant […]
Documentum Contributor Interfaces – D2, Webtop, HPI, and xCP
Part 1 – Document Creation, Checkout, and Checkin After receiving some positive feedback on a previous post comparing the search functionality of Webtop, D2, HPI, and xCP, we decided to continue with our product comparison. This post will compare Webtop, D2, HPI and xCP for From our experience, the user interface for consumers (those who […]
Documentum to Portal Consistency Checker – Proof of Concept
TSG has several clients using Documentum as a repository and a custom front end application for consumption of the records or renditions of records. In most cases there is a mechanism in place such as SCS (Site Caching Services) or TSG’s OpenMigrate PUMA (See CIS Case Study for more details). While a typical Documentum application (ex: […]
Documentum Searching – D2, Webtop, HPI, and xCP
As we have mentioned on this site multiple times, performance and ease of use in regards to searching is one of the most frequent concerns as it relates to use of Documentum. During our review of D2, we thought it would make an interesting blog post as well as video to compare searching across the […]
Documentum D2 – Initial Thoughts
Back on November 1st, 2011, EMC/Documentum announced an exclusive licensing agreement with C6, a French Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software provider and long-time partner. Over the holidays a webinar was held that included a live demo of the tool. For this post, we will present our initial thoughts on the product for those evaluating use […]