One of the first ECM applications TSG ever developed for a client 15 years ago this month was the “Smart CR” where CR stood for change request. When it comes to Change Management, we (TSG) have experienced a variety of approaches and best practices. For this post, we will detail those best practices and how […]
Documentum 6.5 Upgrade – Character Encoding Issues
Special Note: Anyone that is planning an upgrade from Documentum 5.3 to 6.5 should look closely at this note as some types of upgrades (clone or in-place) could result in content that was retrievable from 5.3 not being available in 6.5. This post was developed based on recent work for a major pharmaceutical client. The client, […]
Documentum, Document Control and Alfresco
I was talking to a Life Sciences client that was looking to move away from Documentum for Document Control and they were asking the logical question “Why haven’t more companies moved to Alfresco and Open Source?” For this post, I will try to address some of the reasons as well as present some background on […]
HPI to Integrate Seamlessly with Active Wizard
As described in a previous post, HPI (TSG’s open source High Performance Interface) is undergoing a facelift to beef up the search interface to allow advanced document processing options right from the search results screen. Part of this effort will also include new actions to integrate with Active Wizard.
HPI – Expansion to support Contributors and Power Users
I am working with a client that will roll out HPI (TSG’s open source High Performance Interface) as their main Documentum interface for their contributors and power users. Typically users that simply need to search, view, and print documents use HPI as their main interface while power users have typically used Webtop or another custom interface.
Documentum – Top 12 Tips
Every couple of months we like to step back and offer a “What’s next” post in regards to our thoughts on what Documentum customers should be considering with their implementations. For this post, we will highlight our thoughts based on a thorough review of EMC World and our client briefing discussions.
Documentum Offline Viewer – Conflicting Date Display
As we mentioned earlier in the year, we have many clients looking to push content out of Documentum for consumers. We are currently deploying this type of application for a client with specific requirements in how to display the date in the consumer interface. For many of our web applications, we leverage client utilities (YUI, […]
TSG Products Earn 'Designed for EMC' Application Accreditation
Two of TSG’s open source products have once again earned the ‘Designed for EMC’ Application accreditation. This accreditation demonstrates that HPI (High Performance Interface) and Active Wizard have successfully met a comprehensive set of criteria for good design and quality integration with Documentum. View HPI and Active Wizard in the EMC solution gallery. Available free as open […]
Lucene Integration, OpenSearch Compliant & User Interface Enhancements – New HPI Functionality
In addition to the enhancements to HPI disscussed last week, we are also enhancing the search capability in HPI for a large Documentum pharmaceutical client. Features will include: Lucene Integration: enhanced compatibility of HPI and Lucene through TSG’s OpenContent web services layer Save Search: save, recall, run, delete and edit a saved search OpenSearch Integration: […]