Is FUD keeping you locked into a bad ECM Implementation? Fear, uncertainty, and doubt can keep anyone from improving the status quo of a poor, but working, enterprise content management (ECM) system. In addition, a lack of system sponsorship can fail to crystallize the vision for the organization. The business is then stuck with a bad system that is not tied to its goals and objectives. When stuck with a bad system and little budget to change it, it requires a special kind of approach to get ... [Continue Reading]
Can You Create ECM Innovation with Legacy Tools? – Document Strategy Guest Contributor
Dave Giordano, President and Founder of TSG, was invited to be a guest contributor for the Document Strategy blog. The following is a re-publish of his first article covering innovation in the ECM space. Read the original post here. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Alfresco Comparison Whitepaper – January 2017 Update
TSG has updated their whitepaper detailing key differences between Documentum and Alfresco. This post will present the executive summary with a link to obtain the entire paper. As an infrastructure component, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) assists customers with keeping consistent control of the storage and management of their content assets across a variety of industries and applications. The ECM market has evolved over the last 25 years to a point where many vendors have similar ... [Continue Reading]
2017 ECM Thoughts and Predictions as well as recap of 2016 postings
With the beginning of 2017, it is time for our annual thoughts from our blog from 2016 as well as the ECM industry in general. Biggest news of the year – Dell purchases EMC, OpenText purchases Documentum from Dell Clearly the biggest news of the year for our readers was the purchase by Dell of EMC and then the sale by EMC of ECD (Enterprise Content Division that includes Documentum) to OpenText. Our most popular post of the year was Documentum sold to OpenText – Detailed Analysis and ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Records Management – It is time to de-risk your RPS implementation
This week we met with a client who has been evaluating Documentum RPS (Retention Policy Services) for about 18 months. The complexity of the product and its impact on database size and the audit trail are primary implementation concerns. Our client has multiple repositories and content storage of well over 700TB. The impact of applying RPS policies to objects, executing dispositions, running dm_clean and storing the resulting reports and audit trail entries are forcing a detailed examination of ... [Continue Reading]
Box and ECM – 9 market reasons Box will never be a serious ECM alternative
Last month we wrote about our thoughts on Gartner’s ECM Magic Quadrant for ECM. For the Gartner post, we were surprised that Box, while not included in the overall evaluation of ECM vendors, had a considerable note for small to midsized companies as well as a reference in the IBM review as a strength of IBM. This post will present our analysis and recommendations in regards to the market factors that will contribute to Box and Online Casino games never being truly on par with other serious ECM ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Risk – Top 5 Reasons to Ditch Webtop
As we have been mentioning her in other posts, due to the purchase Documentum by OpenText, many clients are looking at ways to reduce the risk of an unknown Documentum future. This post will look into the risk of the most popular Documentum interface, Webtop. ... [Continue Reading]
Gartner ECM 2016 – “Magic Quadrant” – Change, Hype and Rigged?
Gartner has recently released the “ECM Magic Quadrant”. You can download a copy of it from Alfresco here. Back in the 1990’s when ECM was emerging, many clients (and the software vendors) relied on the analysis as we were selecting initial ECM solutions. Last year, we questioned the relevancy of the review – “Gartner ECM Magic Quadrant 2015 – Is it really magic anymore?” and it continues to be one of our more popular posts. This year, it seems as if the results are dramatically altered in ... [Continue Reading]
Top 5 Differences between Records Management and Document Management
Several of our clients have been wrestling with the topic of Information Governance (IG) and the difference between Records Management (RM) and Document Management (DM). We participated in several discussions while at NIRMA where the need to incorporate Electronic Document Management functionality is falling under the Records Management department. Long term, records managers are looking at Records Management solutions to solve Document Management needs. While on the surface it may seem that ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Sale – What Now?
As we shared back in early April, EMC announced that they were planning on selling Documentum prior to the Dell purchase of EMC. With the news today that the Dell purchase of EMC has closed 6 months later without the sale of Documentum, (September 12th Update - Documentum sold to OpenText) this post will address our thoughts on what will happen to Documentum, now part of Dell. ... [Continue Reading]
EMC sells Documentum to private equity – what would it look like 1 year later?
With the announcement last April that EMC is looking to sell Documentum, we have always predicted that the likely buyer would be private equity. As followers of EMC/Documentum know, EMC sold off Synchplicity to private equity approximately one year ago. For this blog post, we will compare Gartner’s thoughts on Syncplicity in 2015 (when the sale was just announced) with Gartner’s thoughts in 2016 to draw parallels to a possible Documentum sale. ... [Continue Reading]
ECM Future – the ECM platform/solutions debate and impact of the cloud
A couple of ECM old-timers (Marko and Laurence) posted their thoughts on Content Management – a solution or a platform last month. This post will present our thoughts on the enterprise content management landscape and some of the history of the platform versus solution debate as well as our thoughts in regards to the impact of movement to the ECM cloud. ... [Continue Reading]
TSG Attending 2016 Document Strategy Forum – May 10th-12th
Be sure to stop by our booth (#516) during the 2016 Document Strategy Forum at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare. We will be on hand to give live product demos of all our solutions and to discuss the current state of the industry. Looking forward to catching up with the entire ECM community. Tweet us at @tsgrp and let us know if we can expect to see you! Look for our review of the conference next week. ... [Continue Reading]
EMC World 2016 – Day 2 – ECD Roadmap and Vision
A two hour ECD Roadmap session was the bulk of the second day as the morning was partner meeting and other EMC presentations. This post will present our thoughts on the roadmap. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum after the EMC fire sale – it’s all about the brand
With the recent announcement by Bloomberg about EMC shopping Documentum as well as EMC World/Momentum just two weeks away, many clients have been asking us about our thoughts on the impending sale of Documentum. Unlike the original purchase of Documentum by EMC in 2003, this sale is more of a fire sale as Dell/EMC are looking to sell off non-core assets for cash to reduce the massive amount of debt required for the EMC purchase. This post will address: Our thoughts on the current state of ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – Dell buys EMC – Thoughts as the smoke clears
Announced last Monday October 12th, Dell is buying EMC for 67 billion, the biggest tech merger ever. As we mentioned on Monday, TSG wanted to share some of detailed thoughts with customers and potential customers regarding the merger and the effect on Documentum. ... [Continue Reading]
Dell buys EMC – What does it mean for Documentum?
The big news today was Dell buying EMC for a huge amount ($67 billion) in cash. Our Documentum clients have been pinging us with our thoughts. Look for a longer post as the deal reveals itself but this post will present our preliminary thoughts. ... [Continue Reading]
The Future of ECM
TSG is hosting a breakfast meeting with Doculabs on October 15th in Rosemont, IL on the Future of Enterprise Content Management (ECM). If you are interested in attending, please send us a note at inquiry@www.tsgrp.com. This post will summarize the 20 minute TED format talk I am giving to kick-off the meeting. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Multi-Tenancy and HPI
This week we had a new client into the office to brainstorm on ways the client could leverage HPI as part of their cloud based content management offering. In addition to the infrastructure and interface discussions, the conversations also involved lots of joint partnership opportunities around selective case studies. This post will share some of our findings for the week with our strategy moving forward. ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop well documented – Adding ECM attributes "on the fly"
Hadoop, a leading technology disruptor from the Big Data movement, is a massively scalable architecture capable of dealing with terabytes+ of unstructured data. As the cost of storage, memory and CPU continues to move toward almost free, we are seeing the clients looking to move away from traditional legacy ECM tools for the newer architecture and cost savings by managing their documents with Hadoop. On major advantage of Hadoop versus traditional vendors is the ability to add attributes "on ... [Continue Reading]
ECM Disruptors – Open Source, The Cloud, Software as a Service and Big Data – What are clients doing?
When it comes to new technology, one Accenture partner once shared an interesting analogy comparing new technology to teenager vices. Everyone is talking about it, few are doing it, and those that are doing it aren’t doing it very well. For this post, we will discuss TSG’s ECM clients, The Cloud, Software as a Services (SaaS) and Big Data to shed some light on what our clients are talking about, what they're actually do doing, and with our thoughts for readers to consider. ... [Continue Reading]
ECM Implementations – Why do some fail?
Recently we have been in touch with three large clients that are engaging with TSG after having failed with implementations of either a new ECM vendor or new product from their existing ECM vendor. While we are often brought in to clean up ECM implementations, we don’t often see projects where vendors and their tools were abandoned after considerable effort. This post will discuss some of the commonalities we found between these clients and their implementations as well as thoughts from other ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC Sale of Syncplicity
Only July 7th, Skyview Capital announced that had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Syncplicity from EMC with EMC retaining a financial interest in Syncplicity. The complete Syncplicity press release is here. This post will discuss our thoughts on the sale. ... [Continue Reading]
Enterprise Content Management – State of the Industry – 2015
TSG is holding our annual client briefing on June 1st and June 2nd. To kickoff the meeting, I will be conducting a “State of the ECM Industry - 2015” Overview. This post will present the highlights of that presentation. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum – EMC World 2015 – Recap – Cadence Improvements with new repository on the “Horizon”
Last week wrapped up Momentum 2015, the Documentum User Group conference component of EMC World. We have been posting on our attendance throughout the week. This post will present our final thoughts. ... [Continue Reading]
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