TSG is happy to announce the Fall 2018 release of the OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS)! This release, version 3.1, follows our new product release Spring/Fall cadence that we have started this year. For this post, we will take a look at some of the notable enhancements included in the 3.1 release. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco – ADF and OpenContent Comparison- REST Web Services
Earlier this year we wrote about comparing Alfresco Share to OpenContent Management Suite. As part of that comparison series, we mentioned that Share has garnered some concerned attention from Alfresco customers this year when Alfresco announced that Share would be deprecated in future. In moving away from Share, Alfresco has been heavily promoting their Application Development Framework (ADF) as the primary approach for building a modern user interface for the Alfresco platform. For this ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Performance – Making Property Queries Faster
Recently TSG has assisted multiple clients with unique scenarios to make Alfresco queries more efficient. Like a good auto mechanic that has learned tips and tricks for getting better performance from a car without sacrificing quality, TSG has recently developed performance improvements for Alfresco in OpenContent to address clients’ needs. This post will summarize the approach and updates to OpenContent Web Services. ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco – Adding the ability to query on very large data sets
During a recent migration from an on-premise Documentum system to Alfresco on Amazon Web Services, a client wanted to check the target repository for document counts and other pertinent information to ensure that the migration executed smoothly. For example, a client may want to query to know "how many documents of type X are in the repository"? If the migration says that 50,000 documents have been migrated, then that query should return a count of 50,000. With out of the box in Alfresco, ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop Web Service REST API for Enterprise Content Management using TSG's OpenContent
Many of our ECM clients often develop their own Web Services layer to isolate their applications from the back-end repository as well as provide a vehicle to add in their own services to talk to other non-ECM systems. OpenContent was developed as part of our Documentum practice to give clients a standard web services architecture with an open source approach. OpenContent is now available for the Hadoop NoSQL database, HBase. This post will detail the web services available in our first ... [Continue Reading]
HPI and OpenContent 2.1 Released as Open Source
Just a quick announcement - HPI 2.1 has been released as Open Source on the TSG downloads page. Check it out and let us know what you think! As an added update, a number of our Alfresco clients merged in significant updates for Alfresco after we tagged the 2.1 code branch. So, for anyone using Alfresco, a 2.2 beta release is on our downloads page. If you would like to learn more about HPI, check out our website and Learning Zone using the links below. Learn more about HPI on ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum, Alfresco or a Database – What Developers need to consider
Many times, TSG will get involved with clients that have strong developers on staff that come from a database development background and are unfamiliar with the capabilities of Enterprise Content Management (ECM). As database systems expand from just the data to add related documents, the database paradigm approach will typically lead to database entries with file pointers to point/store the related documents. This post will address the shortcomings of a database approach by sharing how ... [Continue Reading]
HPI, OpenContent Web Services and Alfresco
Many of our clients have improved the user experience for their document management systems by implementing our HPI (High Performance Interface) application. And while HPI’s first deployment used the Documentum implementation of OpenContent, its architecture also allows it to run on top of OpenContent for Alfresco. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum and Alfresco – Mobile Camera App for Case Management
Currently many clients import photos into their case management systems by transferring digital images via a USB connection to a computer and then uploading them through a traditional content management client application. This post will discuss how to enable clients to leverage smartphones for a better experience. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum and SharePoint Search Alternatives – TSG WhitePaper Available
TSG has recently released a detailed whitepaper on Documentum and SharePoint Search Alternatives. The complete paper is available on our website in the downloads section. This post will share the summary conclusion. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum and SharePoint Searching – An Integration Approach
We have recently completed a project to create a single search interface to retrieve both Documentum and SharePoint content. This post will present a high-level overview of other SharePoint search interface alternatives and why we chose the integration approach. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Links – Adding to SharePoint Lists or other Web Sites
Recently we visited a client that wanted to add links to Documentum documents to SharePoint. While the first solution was mostly “out of the box”, the client had TSG build a pretty innovative solution. For this post we will discuss the problem, initial solution and long-term solution for adding links to Documentum documents in SharePoint. ... [Continue Reading]
Active Wizard to use OpenContent
TSG is currently in the process of creating a version of the Active Wizard that will work with our own OpenContent web services. Using OpenContent will allow Active Wizard to work with any Content Management System that OpenContent supports. This means that Active Wizard implementations will be supported on a number of repository types (ex: Documentum, Alfresco, file system). The Active Wizard will require only a simple configuration change to work with each CMS. This will also benefit users ... [Continue Reading]
Active Wizard 4.0 Preview – OpenContent & Active Wizard Lite
Our next release of the Active Wizard will be 4.0, and it will mark the beginning of some big changes for the Active Wizard. Our overall architecture direction is to move to a web services model based on OpenContent. While this change is more of a back-end update that regular users won't notice, it will have a big impact on the product's flexibility in the overall architecture. As part of the switch to OpenContent, we're also adding Adobe Flex components to improve the overall look and ... [Continue Reading]
