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]
OpenContent Solr Services – New TSG Product Offering
As part of our campaign to make Documentum better, TSG is announcing the formalization of our OpenContent Solr Services as well as some new features that we are adding to our work with Solr. We have been working with Lucene and later Solr for over 12 years but have recently discovered several client scenarios and opportunities that are driving our expansion of our Solr capabilities for Documentum, Alfresco, Hadoop and other repositories. This post will detail the different scenarios as well as ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Upgrade – Replacing the PIA (Primary Interop Assembly) with OpenSearch
Last week we updated a client’s .NET application to replace Documentum’s defunct PIA (Primary Interop Assembly) API with calls to OpenSearch through HPI. This client’s HPI instance is an offline content viewer portal that utilizes Solr for searching and serving documents. The .NET code change was minimal, simply replacing the PIA calls with OpenSearch calls effectively changing the source of where the application gets its documents from Documentum to Solr. Decoupling the .NET application from ... [Continue Reading]
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. ... [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 – Top 12 Tips
Every couple of months we like to step back and offer a “What’s next” post in regards to our thoughts on what Documentum customers should be considering with their implementations. For this post, we will highlight our thoughts based on a thorough review of EMC World and our client briefing discussions. ... [Continue Reading]
Lucene Integration, OpenSearch Compliant & User Interface Enhancements – New HPI Functionality
In addition to the enhancements to HPI disscussed last week, we are also enhancing the search capability in HPI for a large Documentum pharmaceutical client. Features will include: Lucene Integration: enhanced compatibility of HPI and Lucene through TSG’s OpenContent web services layer Save Search: save, recall, run, delete and edit a saved search OpenSearch Integration: execute a Lucene search (full text and metadata) and return it in an OpenSearch compliant RSS feed that includes a custom ... [Continue Reading]
Third Annual TSG Client Briefing – June 3rd – 2010
TSG will be holding our third annual client briefing on June 3, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center from 9 to 4:30. The briefing focuses on TSG facilitation of specific ECM topics with a focus on interaction between clients for experience, lessons learned and best practices. Last year’s briefing included: Introductions – sharing “What I would like to learn today” EMC World 2009 Recap Upgrading to Documentum 6 ECM Interface Design Lunch (Wolfgang Puck Catered) and ... [Continue Reading]
OpenSearch support for Documentum
OpenContent (TSG’s ECM Web Services Layer) and OpenSearch now share more than a similar name. The original OpenSearch 1.0 specification was released in March 2005, and was developed by Amazon. OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. Using OpenSearch standards allow search results to be consumed by a variety of services. We recently had a client inquire about the ability of OpenContent to run ... [Continue Reading]
