TSG initiated our 11 Billion Document DynamoDB benchmark on Friday, May 10th 2019 and ended all of our testing activities on June 20th 2019 with our findings documented in our DynamoDB 11 Billion Document Migration – Summary of Findings post. The benchmark was an unbelievable success with our team learning many lessons in regards to […]
Amazon S3 – Viewing content fast and securely in-browser with the Alfresco Enterprise Viewer
As organizations move to the cloud, many have a desire to leverage cloud storage, like Amazon S3. Cloud object stores are ideal given their scalability, security and fast performance for finding and retrieving content. As a simple store, S3 does not provide streamlined abilities to view and interact with that content. This post will look […]
Content Service Platform Scaling – How Good Key Design and NoSQL can avoid the need for Elastic/Solr or other indexes
TSG has implemented multiple large document solutions in our Alfresco, Documentum and NoSQL (DynamoDB and HBase/Hadoop) practices with volumes in the hundreds of millions and sometimes billions of documents. Our most recent FileNet Migration had 4 Billion Documents and in 2019 TSG successfully benchmarked 11 Billion documents internally on DynamoDB. This post will highlight the […]
Print to Repository – OpenContent Print Driver Support
TSG has been working with a client recently that needs the ability to print directly to the repository. This post will present both the old way of printing to the repository as well as our new OpenContent Print Driver to allow printing to the repository with a consistent web-based indexing user experience.
ECM 2.0 – Vision & Review of 2019
TSG recently posted an article with Document Strategy on the Vision for Content Services Platform /ECM 2.0 for 2020 and beyond. As part of our year-end wrap-up for 2019 and prepping for 2020, we conducted a deeper dive interview with Dave Giordano, our founder, on his thoughts on the market and his predictions for 2020. […]
ECM 2.0 – One-Step vs. Two-Step Migrations
As clients are preparing for 2020, TSG has seen an uptick in the number of requests for OpenMigrate support for migrating from legacy repositories (FileNet, ImagePlus, Mobius, CMOD…..) to a new modern ECM 2.0 repository. TSG will typically recommend a “one step” migration where OpenMigrate can both retrieve documents from the legacy repository and store […]
AWS with DynamoDB for Content Management – Reference Architecture & Cost Estimate
TSG has recently been working with multiple clients who are considering whether to deploy their Content Management platform in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud instead of on premise. The discussion typically boils down to “how much would it cost for me to deploy this in the cloud vs procuring hardware and software licenses?” This […]
ECM 2.0 – Can you build it yourself?
Recently Gartner Analyst and long-time ECM evangelist Marko Sillapaa posted an interesting article titled “Why Build a Content Services Platform from Scratch?” . In the article Marko correctly points out that “build your own” isn’t easy and it’s better to avoid home grown solutions where support could be required for 20 years. An alternative viewpoint comes […]
DynamoDB – 11 Billion Document Benchmark White Paper
In May of 2019, Technology Services Group initiated an 11 Billion Document DynamoDB benchmark, which was completed in June 2019. With the success of the benchmark, TSG was able to successfully demonstrate that AWS, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch and our OpenContent, OpenAnnotate and OpenMigrate products could scale to an unprecedented level and represented the next evolution of […]