In our series exploring the use of Hadoop for ECM, the best practice from our years of ECM experience tells us is that documents should be stored in both their native content as well as a PDF rendition of the content. Storing a PDF rendition allows consumers quick access to view the content, as well as […]
Documentum Migration to Alfresco – Best Practices – Recording Available
More and more decision makers are choosing to migrate from legacy ECM repositories, such as Documentum, to Alfresco. Whether to gain the advantage of better performance and additional capabilities or as part of an ECM consolidation effort, migrating from a legacy system to Alfresco doesn’t necessarily have to be a complex and difficult process. TSG […]
Documentum Migration to Alfresco – Best Practices – Webinar February 26th
More and more decision makers are choosing to migrate from legacy ECM repositories, such as Documentum, to Alfresco. Whether to gain the advantage of better performance and additional capabilities or as part of an ECM consolidation effort, migrating from a legacy system to Alfresco doesn’t necessarily have to be a complex and difficult process.
Ephesoft Export to Documentum Using OpenMigrate
Recently a client came to us with a need to export documents and metadata captured using Ephesoft into Documentum. We’ve seen many clients implement Ephesoft as a capture solution for Alfresco, but had yet to see anyone export into Documentum. This post will discuss how OpenMigrate provides a configurable bridge between Documentum and Ephesoft.
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. […]
Enterprise Content Management Predictions – 2015
This post will give some thoughts in regards to the futures of ECM and what we would expect in 2015. In looking back, we neglected to do a predictions last year. See our post detailing our 2013 predictions for Documentum. This post will compare our thoughts and predictions in the past for the previous two […]
Alfresco Webinar – Benefits of a Rolling Migration versus a Big Bang – October 21st
When moving to Alfresco, many clients struggle with the cost and effort associated with a “Big-Bang” migration from their Legacy ECM system. In a “Big-Bang” scenario, all the content must be migrated to the new system during a very risky and expensive cutover weekend.
Documentum & Alfresco Migration Strategies – What Factors Should be Considered?
As we’ve mentioned in a previous blog post, we often meet with potential clients who are interested in using OpenMigrate to meet a migration need but they haven’t yet identified specific migration requirements beyond the need to move documents from one location to another. It is important to identify requirements and an overall migration strategy […]
Documentum Migration – "Two-Step" Bulk Load versus a "One-Step" Migration Approach
Recently, we have seen an uptick in the number of requests for OpenMigrate support for migrating from Documentum to either another Documentum repository or a new repository like Alfresco or M-Files. Many times clients will opt to use a vendor supplied bulk upload tool as part of the migration and use OpenMigrate simply to dump […]