TSG conducted our annual client briefing on Monday June 5th. One of the more interesting presentations and discussions was on how clients are finding innovative ways to leverage the capabilities of the various object storage devices and technologies. This post will present some of our experiences and best practices in regards to object storage and […]
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. […]
Import Email Messages from GMail into your ECM Repository with HPI
We’ve seen many clients with requirements around importing emails into an ECM repository. For a long time, we’ve allowed ingesting outlook MSG emails in our HPI interface. To see how this works, check out this demo in the TSG Learning Zone. However, we’ve recently worked with some clients that have migrated to Gmail and Google […]
Automated Redaction for Documentum, Alfresco, Hadoop ECM Repositories
As more business processes are being automated for storing and working with documents in ECM repositories, many companies are encountering a need to redact sensitive information in these documents. Due to clients asking about redaction, TSG released OpenRedact nearly three years ago as a manual way for redacting documents stored in Documentum, Alfresco, or Hadoop ECM repository. Recently we […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PDF Renditions – leveraging Adlib as a high volume web based service
One of our high volume ECM clients has a need to convert many word documents on demand as part of a rolling migration approach. TSG is a partner with Adlib, the premier rendition services provider. In brainstorming with the client as well as Adlib, TSG has designed a massively scalable solution with Amazon Web Services […]