With Documentum 6.5 SP3 going out of support this year (August 31, 2012), we’re running several Documentum upgrade projects for clients this quarter. Unlike in the past where upgrades promised fantastic new functionality, this round of upgrades is trending more towards maintaining supported configurations and upgrading to new hardware. In addition, rather than simply upgrading […]
New OpenMigrate Tutorials Available in TSG Learning Zone
TSG’s open source migration framework, OpenMigrate, offers extensive configuration and customization features. However, with this flexibility comes some complexity. OpenMigrate’s distribution includes nearly 20 sample migration projects, intended to get folks up and running quickly. But sometimes even getting the environment configured properly can be a nuisance. To address this issue, we’ve created several new […]
OpenMigrate 1.7 Released: Enhanced Support for Documentum, Alfresco and SharePoint Migrations
With the new year comes exciting new product updates, and the release of TSG’s migration framework, OpenMigrate version 1.7, leads the way. This release of OpenMigrate includes some new features as well as enhancements to existing features, as described after the jump.
Alfresco DevCon Wrap Up
DevCon wrapped up at the end of October in sunny San Diego. Conferences are always a great way to get “re-energized”, meeting new users to the Alfresco platform, spending time with existing clients, and getting excited about where the Alfresco platform is headed. This post will discuss the roadmap and other thoughts from the conference.
Migrating from Documentum to Alfresco– Client Interview
For this post, we will be talking with the Project Manager from a customer that recently moved from Documentum to Alfresco. In order to avoid having to get corporate approval, the client has asked not be identified for this post. The interview was conducted for a half hour on September 30, 2011.
Documentum Migrations – Interview with OpenMigrate Product Manager
For this post, we interview Todd Pierzina, Product Manager for the TSG OpenMigrate product in regards to his thoughts around Documentum Migrations as well as other migrations for SharePoint or Alfresco.
Alfresco Consulting – Consulting in an Open Source world
At TSG we get questions all the time in regards to “How are your consulting engagements different between Alfresco and other ECM offerings like Documentum, FileNet/IBM and SharePoint.” For this post, we will explore how we have been successful with Alfresco Consulting initiatives and point out some of the differences to commercial ECM consulting.
Alfresco Consulting – Documentum Disruptor #2
We posted an article last week on how Alfresco and SharePoint were Disrupting Documentum. The term disruptor is from the Innovators Dilemma business book and it relates to how difficult it is for one company to continue technology innovation over time and newcomers disrupt the industry. In a phone discussion with one of the responders, […]
Documentum Alternatives and Disruptors – Alfresco or SharePoint?
I was at a Documentum client this week that is reviewing their ECM strategy as part of planning for 2012 and 2013. Given a somewhat difficult relationship with EMC due to a contentious software audit, the client wanted to review alternatives and consider a Documentum migration to a new ECM system as an alternative to […]