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.
SharePoint and Alfresco Search Alternatives
Similar to our recent post and whitepaper on Documentum and SharePoint integration, this post will present similar options for Alfresco users. We recently posted an example of SharePoint and Alfresco integration in our Learning Zone. This post will present a recap of possible solutions to compare and contrast the alternatives.
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.
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.
InputAccel and Kofax Alternative – Ephesoft Open Source Document Scanning
We have recently been evaluating the document capture capabilities available through the Ephesoft (http://www.ephesoft.com) document capture platform. Typically clients have been tied into the suite approach from a vendor where the vendor already owns a scanning solution or the solution is bundled with the ECM purchase. For those clients looking for alternatives, we would recommend […]
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 5 vs. 6, Databases and Dates: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
When EMC revealed Documentum 6 a few years ago, they made a subtle—yet important—change to the way Documentum would store dates and times in the database. While most clients would never even notice the change, some of us would. In particular, when it becomes necessary to access the underlying database tables, like OpenMigrate can when […]