TSG has recently begun a partnership with AODocs, a new player in the Content Services Platform space. This post will present some background on AODocs as well as demonstrate a Documentum to AODocs migration with our product, OpenMigrate. AODocs Background AODocs is a software solution owned by Altirnao. They are a new company founded in […]
FileNet Migration – Not as hard as you think?
Over the last 10 years, TSG has been helping clients migrate away from old, legacy FileNet systems. We started blogging back in 2010 and included updates in 2016, as well as our more recent success with over 4 billion documents in 2020. While TSG has always believed that there will never be an easy button […]
FileNet Support – Migrating to mitigate the risk of an unsupportable product
As part of our recent migration of an over 4 billion document client from FileNet, TSG had the chance to have detailed discussions with multiple clients on the reasons they were moving away from FileNet to a more modern alternative. In this post we will discuss the most pressing reason, the large and growing risk […]
FileNet Migrations – Best Practices for Large Migrations
TSG just completed the bulk of activities to migrate over 4 Billion documents for a large health insurance company. This was one of our most complex migrations ever with over 4 billion documents and both legacy FileNet Image Services as well as a large amount of the content in FileNet P8. For this post we […]
Migrations – Why do they fail? (12 Worst Practices)
TSG has had some interesting conversations with various client prospects recently who were interested in TSG’s best practices for migrations. While you can find a lot of references here to migration best practices (One Step vs Two, File Formats Lessons, Migrating 11 Billion Documents) , we thought for this post we would be slightly more […]
Mobius Content Services Migrations with OpenMigrate
TSG has recently seen several existing and new clients looking to migrate content from Mobius Content Services to other Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platforms. Reasons for migrating include consolidation of disparate ECM systems, the desire to move to a NoSQL ECM such as TSG’s DynamoDB and Hadoop solutions, and the need to regularly extract content […]
IBM Content Manager and Content Manager onDemand (CMOD) Migrations – How to Migrate Quickly
Many of the TSG customers and prospects are struggling with old versions of Content Manager and Content Manager onDemand that have lived for decades with millions and even billions of documents. With the 2016 announcement that, while still being branded as IBM CMOD, all future development has been moved to UNICOM, most customers are looking […]
Computer Generated Documents – What’s different about Capture 2.0 and Big Data?
As part of our series on Capture 2.0, this quarter TSG is focused on improving our ability to capture documents that are “borne digital”, that is, while being in a paper format, were never printed out on paper. While capturing documents from Word or other documents created by an end-user is fairly straightforward, computer batch processes […]
File Formats Lessons Learned – Legacy ECM Migrations
As we presented yesterday, one of the bigger issues with FileNet Migrations was clients that have leveraged the COLD format and how TSG has come up with our own adapter to help clients move away from FileNet COLD to a less proprietary PDF format. The discussion got us thinking about what other formats need special […]