Open Source Hadoop becoming increasing popular for ECM customers Chicago, IL. – February 4, 2015 – Technology Services Group, Inc. (TSG), an open-source enterprise content management (ECM) solution provider, today announced the creation of a new practice area specifically focused on Hadoop and related technologies. ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop – OpenContent/HPI Product Plans
The first step in supporting all of the TSG products on Hadoop is building our OpenContent REST Web Services layer to access Hadoop in the same manner we access Documentum, Alfresco and other content management systems. This post will present our plans and timelines for OpenContent along with associated TSG solutions. ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop – Data Model for ECM applications
As we have talked to clients about Hadoop with HBase for ECM, too often we hear “but isn't that just for big data?” This post will try to explain the benefits of Hadoop’s big data capabilities and data model in an ECM context compared to traditional database systems. ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop – Why Hadoop as a Content Store when Caching Content for ECM Consumers
Last week we posted on a publishing approach for enterprise search. Along with enterprise search, we have seen more and more ECM clients look to publish content out of the ECM repository for a variety of business reasons including performance, business continuity and reducing costs. This post will highlight how Hadoop can be used within a publishing architecture and explain some of the benefits. ... [Continue Reading]
Enterprise Document Search – A Publishing rather than Crawler/Federated Approach
I met with a client yesterday that was struggling with a typical ECM issue in regards to how to provide for searches against multiple ECM environments. While ECM vendors love to pitch the “one repository to rule them all”, most ECM users have content in a variety of different solutions that have evolved over time. This post will provide thoughts on how to publish to a common search/retrieval repository and benefits over a crawling or federated approach. ... [Continue Reading]
Next Generation ECMS – Architecture Thoughts
We responded this week to a Documentum Pharma customer that, like many of our legacy ECM customers, is looking at what could be next for ECM and is particularly focused on systems architecture. In prepping for the response, we thought it would make a good post to share with other readers and would tie well in regards to follow-up for both our 2015 ECM predictions as well as our current series on Hadoop. ... [Continue Reading]
Ephesoft Partnership
Technology Services Group is excited to announce a new partnership with Ephesoft, maker of SmartCapture, an industry leader specializing in extracting critical information from physical and electronic documents. From scanned forms to faxes to PDFs, emails and attachement, Ephesoft provides the capabilities to tag, process, organize, and add properties to documents through a highly configurable batch processing system. TSG is adding Ephesoft as another alternative and component in an overall ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop and Its Opportunities for Enterprise Content Management
In doing our predictions post for 2015, one thing we have been discussing and targeted for further research is Hadoop and potential opportunities for Enterprise Content Management. This post will begin a series of posts on our thoughts and R&D activities to provide an OpenContent connection to Hadoop. ... [Continue Reading]
