Technology Services Group (TSG) began working with one legacy FileNet customer in the summer of 2019 successfully migrating billions of documents for a large health care client from a legacy FileNet Image Services and P8 system. Bringing both products and consultative experience to the project, TSG was able to migrate the client’s FileNet implementation to […]
Azure Stack for ECM – On Premise with Cloud Infrastructure and Object Store
We have recently been working with clients that have plans to leverage cloud technology and innovations but have concerns about moving their content to the cloud. For one client, we looked into Azure Stack, which allows for extending the capabilities of the Azure ecosystem to be hosted within a datacenter, as a starting point for […]
FileNet Migrations – Best Practices for Large Migrations
TSG just completed the bulk of activities to migrate over 4 Billion documents for a large health insurance company. This was one of our most complex migrations ever with over 4 billion documents and both legacy FileNet Image Services as well as a large amount of the content in FileNet P8. For this post we […]
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 […]
Reference Architecture for Content Management on Azure HDInsight with HBase
TSG has recently been working with a multiple clients that are deciding on whether to deploy their Content Management platform in the Azure cloud from Microsoft or 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 for […]
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 […]