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.
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 […]
3 Questions – What is a Consumer Portal?
ECM customers are no strangers to license costs. But year-over-year price increases and per-user licenses for a growing company can put a strain on any budget. In addition, most ECM platforms today come packaged with an “everything and the kitchen sink” user interface. The complex nature of such interfaces requires a large amount of user […]
Documentum and Alfresco – Versioning, Security and Relationship Differences
One of the more common requirements we see from our manufacturing and operation clients is tight control around document versioning. In some cases, for example Pharmaceuticals, these systems are tightly regulated (and possibly audited) by a government agency such as the FDA. As we see more and more clients choosing Alfresco over Documentum, this post […]
Document Management – What It Is and Why You Need It
Many people in the world live and breathe document management and they may not even know it. The tools are built into their every day life and ideally make their jobs easier. Unfortunately, a majority of people in enterprises are sometimes leveraging tools that are not true document management solutions. A basic understanding of what true […]
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 […]
Microsoft Azure HDInsight for ECM on Hadoop
As we have posted in the past, Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure offering has been a very attractive option for companies looking to outsource some, or all, of their infrastructure. Microsoft, while a little late to the market, has put together a comparable suite of tools to Amazon’s AWS offerings, including a very robust Hadoop […]
Build a Consumer Interface for Documentum – Client Case Study
With the recent purchase of Documentum by OpenText, many Documentum customers are concerned about what will happen to the products they have been using over the past decade. Customers should look at reducing their risk and reliance on EMC’s products, prices and services that will soon be under the control of OpenText. One major way to reduce […]
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 […]