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 […]
ECM Sales Myths for 2019
In the hunt for “what to talk to customers about next”, we often see many of the ECM vendor sales teams get behind a concept, or technology, that can be marketed easily but isn’t always something clients eventually do or are successful implementing. For this post, we will list some of the myths (including a […]
Documentum Futures – OpenText versus Doculabs
Some the most popular posts in the ECM/CPS space are typically when an analyst takes a strong stance on a vendor. Joe Shepley’s post for CMSWire back in November – OpenTextand Documentum – Still not buying it – was one of those posts. Joe took a pretty aggressive stand on his thoughts on the future […]
Gartner Content Service Platforms (CPS) Magic Quadrant 2018 – What’s Missing?
Back in 2015, we posted the question of whether the magic quadrant was really magic anymore. In the following years, Gartner has evolved the rating with a complete change of the evaluation in 2016 as well as the big news in 2017 when IBM/FileNet being dropped from the leader quadrant after being the default leader […]
Documentum 6.7 and ADTS Extended Support Ending on April 30th, 2018
Extended support for the Documentum 6.7 stack, and thus Advanced Document Transformation Services (ADTS) with the Adlib backend, ends on April 30, 2018. For those clients that have not upgraded to the 7.X environment, there is significant risk exposure. As part of our making Documentum better series, TSG is recommending upgrading to Adlib rather than […]
Documentum – How to make it better – 2018 Blog Series
Based on feedback from multiple clients, TSG will be conducting a 2018 blog series on how to make Documentum better based on our 20+ years of client experience. Over the course of the next several weeks, we will be sharing best practices with both new posts as well as some of refreshed versions of our […]
2018 Thoughts and Predictions as well as recap of 2017 postings
2017 was the busiest year ever for the TSG blog. Whether it was the finalization of the purchase of Documentum by OpenText or Gartner’s 180 on IBM, we had our most active year with over 60,000 views of our different articles. This post will highlight some of the most popular articles as well as our […]
Alfresco and Amazon Web Services – Disrupting Legacy Content Services – Alfresco Day London – Keynote
TSG gave a keynote presentation on December 7th for Alfresco Day London. Our topic “Alfresco and AWS – Disrupting Legacy Content Services” presented our thoughts on how the combination of a movement to the cloud, specifically Amazon’s cloud, along with the additional content created by digital transformation is disrupting the main Legacy ECM vendors. This […]
Alfresco – The Importance of being Cloud Native compared to Legacy ECM vendors
In a recent Cloud Foundry Summit 2017 interview with Mojgan Lefebvre, SVP and CIO Liberty Mutual Global Specialty described how important it was that their first cloud initiative be Document Management and specifically, Alfresco due to its cloud native architecture. This post will share our agreement on why cloud native is a critical component for […]