TSG initiated our 11 Billion benchmark on Friday, May 10th. As of today we have completed the fourth and final phase, testing our repository with 11,000 concurrent users. This post will share the results. ... [Continue Reading]
Managing Security Videos – What are the issues?
TSG is seeing clients with more and more video management needs, particularly around video surveillance. Clients have to manage a variety of different vendor solutions and formats. Sharing and viewing long and large video files can be a redundant and an inefficient process. TSG worked with the Michigan State Capstone experience to build a prototype that would allow customers to efficiently capture and share video from multiple cameras. ... [Continue Reading]
ECM 2.0 – Machine Learning and Indexing
One of the more interesting usages for machine learning is the potential to speed up and add efficiency to the indexing of documents. At TSG, we are currently adding this capability to our document indexing application. This post will describe the current methods of indexing from the major vendors and how an ECM 2.0 solution will add machine learning. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco – Application Performance Monitoring
One problem we consistently see at Alfresco clients is the inability of IT support resources to respond to user complaints that "the system is slow". Performance is a complicated factor and can depend on many different components typically outside of the control of the Alfresco support resources (network, browser, workstation....). This post will present our thoughts on including an Application Performance Monitoring tool along with Alfresco to proactively be able to address the health of ... [Continue Reading]
Technology Services Group Releases new DynamoDB Document Management Capabilities for AWS
Complete OpenContent Management Suite now available natively for DynamoDB on Amazon Web Services Marketplace Chicago, IL. – January 30th, 2019 – Technology Services Group, Inc. (TSG), a leading provider of document management integration software and services, today announced that its OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS) for DynamoDB has been released on the Amazon Marketplace. OCMS provides a modern user interface for common document management capabilities for a variety of ECM platforms. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Solutions from TSG
One of the more confusing terms with in the Alfresco ecosystem has always been solution. Is an Alfresco solution a software product or consulting offering? Is Case Management a solution or is it more infrastructure? At TSG, our Alfresco Solutions are represented by business focused applications that are a mix of our enterprise class software, configurations and consulting to deliver business value to the end-user. This post will present a high-level overview of our ... [Continue Reading]
Amazon DynamoDB – Can it do ECM?
In discussing our next steps as part of our Amazon Web Services practice, one exciting item TSG is pursuing this quarter will be focused on Amazon DynamoDB and adding Enterprise Content Management capabilities. This post will begin a series of posts on our design and development activities to provide an OpenContent connection to Amazon DynamoDB. ... [Continue Reading]
Doculabs Upgrades Alfresco – Recent Review
Lane Severson, a leading content management analyst for Doculabs, a Chicago based content management analyst firm, recently posted an updated review on Alfresco. TSG has worked with Doculabs since our founding 22 years ago and more recently with Lane as a keynote at our client briefing as well as on multiple client engagements. This post will present our thoughts on the Alfresco review. ... [Continue Reading]
Controlled Printing in Alfresco and Documentum
In recent conversations with many of our manufacturing clients, Controlled Printing has become a frequent topic of conversation. We often see controlled print requirements in systems responsible for managing documents and records to prove that goods are being manufactured and processes are being executed in a repeatable, quality manner (i.e. manufacturing of a widget, plant maintenance activities). Controlled Printing allows documents and records related to these activities to be securely ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco and AWS – 20 Security Tips
Securing Alfresco in the cloud has always been a major concern of clients moving from on premise to the cloud. The majority of our newer Alfresco clients are implementing with a solution for the cloud either on Amazon or Azure. This whitepaper will present 20 tips for securing Alfresco on Amazon Web Services (AWS). ... [Continue Reading]
IASA 2018 – Visit TSG at Booth 257
See how OpenContent Policy & Claim can help your company modernize its Insurace Content Management Process. TSG will be at IASA next week, June 3rd-6th at Booth 257. Be sure to stop by and check out our OpenContent Policy and Claim solution, OpenAnnotate Video and Alfresco. TSG excels in assisting both large and small insurance carriers and MGAs modernize their claims processing experience with Alfresco. With digital content in the insurance world on the rise (Video, Rich Media, ... [Continue Reading]
Claim and Policy Documentation – Free User Requirements Template
Based on our experience with multiple insurance clients, TSG has developed a common user requirements template for management of digital documentation. For current clients, we often use this as a starting point when discussing goals of the new system. For those clients looking to update their documentation methods, we are happy to provide this as a free starting point. As this requirements document will continue to grow over time as new technologies emerge, please check base often for ... [Continue Reading]
ECM Best Practices Whitepaper – Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
With more and more companies leveraging the flexibility of cloud infrastructure like AWS, implementing a robust business continuity and disaster recovery plan has become more important than ever. Learn how the best recovery strategy to be employed by an enterprise in the case of a planned or unplanned outage of a critical content management system. Different approaches are highlighted and vary greatly in their impacts to downtime, data loss, cost, and complexity. The “correct” solution for an ... [Continue Reading]
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation – What are some of the opportunities for ECM?
TSG just finished our quarterly manager meeting where one of the focal points includes updating our product roadmaps. With some great brainstorming amongst our team, as well as some coaching from Alan Pelz-Sharpe, some of our more interesting work this year will focus on learning systems and automation. This post will present our thoughts and rough roadmap for our products. ... [Continue Reading]
OpenAnnotate – Feature Announcement – February 2018
OpenAnnotate continues to be one of our most popular software products with new features being added by multiple clients. This post will highlight the new features including streamline viewing, thumbnail navigation, PDF manipulation, updates to video annotation, redaction updates, localizing and adding the freehand drawing tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Ywx3JXUTI ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco on AWS Marketplace – OpenContent Management Suite
TSG, a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), is proud to announce the release of OpenContent Management Suite on Alfresco on the AWS Marketplace on Alfresco. With the new OCMS marketplace instance, TSG's entire suite of products running on Alfresco can be deployed with just the click of a button. The deployed solutions not only include all of our products but sample configurations and example documents. ... [Continue Reading]
OpenAnnotate – Beta Availability as a service on Amazon Web Services
We often receive requests from integrators or ECM customers that are looking for a way to add OpenAnnotate to their existing ECM infrastructure. For many Documentum or Alfresco deployments, OpenAnnotate can easily be added into their current infrastructures. To address clients that are not on Documentum or Alfresco, or are looking to augment their existing ECM with annotation in the cloud, we have developed OpenAnnotate as a service with Amazon Web Services. This post will detail the ... [Continue Reading]
FileNet – Adding a Modern Interface to a Legacy ECM
As mentioned in multiple posts, TSG has many clients stuck on Legacy ECM tools like FileNet, Documentum and OpenText. While most of the posts here are focused on how to migrate to a modern ECM environment sometimes the burden of moving all of the documents and interfaces can be too daunting. For this post, we will discuss how one client was able to add a modern interface (the TSG OpenContent Compliance Solution) to a Legacy FileNet system. ... [Continue Reading]
Improving Viewing Performance of PDF Documents – PDF.js vs OpenAnnotate
Over the past few years, TSG has leveraged PDF.js as a quick viewer for PDFs within our applications. This post will present how clients are leveraging OpenAnnotate rather than PDF.JS to improve viewing times (while getting the ability to annotate PDF images). ... [Continue Reading]
Suggested Redactions for Documentum, Alfresco or Hadoop using OpenRedact
We have recently seen many of our insurance clients asking what they can do about any PII (Personally identifiable information) and PHI (Protected Health information) that is in the documents they receive from various sources in their ECM repositories. TSG released OpenRedact as a product to help solve this problem by allowing users to manually redact portions of the document to hide some of this sensitive information. This post is going to outline the newest enhancement to OpenRedact to allow ... [Continue Reading]
Top 3 Reasons to Publish Content out of an ECM
Last month, we discussed what a consumer portal is and the benefits of using one. We also considered how to make the switch to using a consumer portal. First, let's recap. A consumer portal is a read-only interface, separate from the ECM, that allows content to be accessible to a large audience at low cost. They are ideal for situations where there is a low number of content publishers, but a large number of content consumers. Here are our top three reasons to publish content out of an ECM ... [Continue Reading]
Box and ECM – What is Box missing?
Box and other Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) tools have been very successful filling the next generation document collaboration needs. Like SharePoint before it, Box and other tools, while being great at sharing files, being successful in collaboration doesn't necessarily lead to success in ECM. Back in December of 2016, we wrote an article on 9 market reasons Box would never be a serious ECM alternative For this post, rather than market thoughts, we will share our experience with ... [Continue Reading]
Save Your Sinking Legacy ECM Implementation
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]
