I was talking to a client yesterday struggling with decisions on upgrading Documentum. Currently the client is on Documentum 5.3 SP5 and is paying EMC for additional support since 5.3 SP5 is no longer supported under standard support. This is not an uncommon situation with many Documentum clients for some of the following reasons: Over […]
Migrating From FileNet to Documentum: Could OpenMigrate Possibly Do That?
OpenMigrate can be used to migrate large volumes of images and other files from FileNet IDM into Documentum, Alfresco or any other repository. Rather than writing a full FileNet connector, TSG leveraged its JDBC and other existing framework components to quickly extend OpenMigrate to extract from FileNet.
eRoom to Documentum Migration Using OpenMigrate
One of our large pharmaceutical clients recently came to TSG for help with migrating documents from multiple eRoom sources to a Documentum target. The goal of this effort was to consolidate multiple disparate, global eRoom systems into an existing Documentum system, providing a unified platform for managing regulatory documentation. This project was a good test […]
OpenMigrate: Making Complex Migrations Simple
TSG is in the final stages of a complex, cross-Atlantic migration utilizing OpenMigrate. This project requires moving approximately 40,000 documents from a Qumas DocCompliance system in the Midwest to an existing Qumas DocCompliance system in Europe.
OpenMigrate: Bulk Load Interface Available for Download
The OpenMigrate Bulk Load Interface provides a highly configurable user interface which enables the user to easily manage documents and import them into a variety of targets.
Documentum Search – Lucene, FAST, Verity, Google and upcoming DSS
Since the new Documentum Search Services beta program just started last week, we thought we would share some of TSG’s thoughts on full-text search and our plans to add Lucene capabilities to our open source offerings. Documentum Search Services (DSS), was tentatively called Enterprise Search Services (ESS) early in the product development. DSS promises to […]
Documentum Migrations – OpenMigrate Sucessfully Moves Half Million Records
Today, a large scale data migration was completed for one of TSG’s pharma clients using TSG’s OpenMigrate tool. Roughly 560,000 records and 175GB of data were migrated at an average pace of 2 documents per second. The entire migration completed in less than two weeks. Records from the client’s previous Sybase Database and FTP based system […]
Documentum Upgrade to 6.5 – Client experience with Migration versus a Database Clone and In-Place Upgrade
I had an interesting discussion today with a large hospital client that is currently upgrading to Documentum 6.5. Like most of our Documentum customers, the client has chosen to refresh hardware, database, and disaster recovery tools as well as upgrade the operating system (from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10). Initially the client was targeting a […]
TSG OpenMigrate Supports Qumas
I’ve been working with a client who needs to consolidate two Qumas content repositories into a single system. Qumas is an Irish company that has a content management solution that runs standalone as well as on top of Documentum. My client was running both Qumas applications on top of Documentum. In working with client, we […]