More and more decision makers are choosing to migrate from legacy ECM repositories, such as Documentum, to Alfresco. Whether to gain the advantage of better performance and additional capabilities or as part of an ECM consolidation effort, migrating from a legacy system to Alfresco doesn’t necessarily have to be a complex and difficult process.
TSG Announces Creation of Hadoop Practice
Open Source Hadoop becoming increasing popular for ECM customers Chicago, IL. – February 4, 2015 – Technology Services Group, Inc. (TSG), an open-source enterprise content management (ECM) solution provider, today announced the creation of a new practice area specifically focused on Hadoop and related technologies.
Ephesoft Export to Documentum Using OpenMigrate
Recently a client came to us with a need to export documents and metadata captured using Ephesoft into Documentum. We’ve seen many clients implement Ephesoft as a capture solution for Alfresco, but had yet to see anyone export into Documentum. This post will discuss how OpenMigrate provides a configurable bridge between Documentum and Ephesoft.
Hadoop – Why Hadoop as a Content Store when Caching Content for ECM Consumers
Last week we posted on a publishing approach for enterprise search. Along with enterprise search, we have seen more and more ECM clients look to publish content out of the ECM repository for a variety of business reasons including performance, business continuity and reducing costs. This post will highlight how Hadoop can be used within […]
Enterprise Document Search – A Publishing rather than Crawler/Federated Approach
I met with a client yesterday that was struggling with a typical ECM issue in regards to how to provide for searches against multiple ECM environments. While ECM vendors love to pitch the “one repository to rule them all”, most ECM users have content in a variety of different solutions that have evolved over time. […]
Next Generation ECMS – Architecture Thoughts
We responded this week to a Documentum Pharma customer that, like many of our legacy ECM customers, is looking at what could be next for ECM and is particularly focused on systems architecture. In prepping for the response, we thought it would make a good post to share with other readers and would tie well […]
Alfresco Webinar – Benefits of a Rolling Migration versus a Big Bang – October 21st
When moving to Alfresco, many clients struggle with the cost and effort associated with a “Big-Bang” migration from their Legacy ECM system. In a “Big-Bang” scenario, all the content must be migrated to the new system during a very risky and expensive cutover weekend.
Canadian Museum of Human Rights – Opening Weekend
In the fall of 2012, Technology Services Group flew up to Winnipeg, Manitoba with Alfresco to understand CMHR’s vision for their museum. More than a decade in the making, and still under construction, we were able see the vision for the numerous digitally driven exhibits being designed and built, the need for an API to interface with […]
Documentum Migration – "Two-Step" Bulk Load versus a "One-Step" Migration Approach
Recently, we have seen an uptick in the number of requests for OpenMigrate support for migrating from Documentum to either another Documentum repository or a new repository like Alfresco or M-Files. Many times clients will opt to use a vendor supplied bulk upload tool as part of the migration and use OpenMigrate simply to dump […]