As mentioned in our previous post about managing controlled documents in Alfresco, Active Wizard 5.0 utilizes the Activiti BPM platform for dynamic workflow processes. If you’re curious about how dynamic workflow works in the Active Wizard, check out this post from earlier this year, which we wrote after we had posted our initial thoughts about Activiti. In […]
Migrating from Documentum to Alfresco – Controlled Documents – Introducing Active Wizard 5.0
TSG has over 15 years experience building systems to manage controlled documents. Most of these systems have been built on top of Documentum for clients in various industries including Pharmaceuticals, Nuclear Energy, Manufacturing and others. When talking to these clients about their thoughts on moving from Documentum to Alfresco, the inevitable conversation comes up: “How […]
Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conclusion
The Salesforce.com Dreamforce convention is winding so we thought we would share our thoughts on what we observed and heard over the past week. As always, the convention offered a lot of fanfare and excitement mixed with tons of useful knowledge from the over 800 sessions. For the most part we are convinced that the […]
Documentum Workflow – Queue/Template versus Form/Dynamic Approaches
We recently finished conducting a technical proof of concept with a financial services client. One of the big discussions was workflow, specifically a queue driven approach with workflow templates versus a form driven approach with dynamic workflow. Since either approach could satisfy the client’s requirements in one way or another, the client wanted us to […]
Documentum Workflow Reporting: One Client’s Approach using Cognos
Many of our clients deploy some type of business workflow as a part of their ECM offering and see some great efficiency improvements. This entry is going to outline how a large Pharmaceutical client was able to create some advanced reporting around their promotional materials approval process to help identify inefficiencies in their process and […]
Alfresco or Documentum – Dynamic Workflow in Active Wizard
We’ve recently completed our initial effort that successfully implemented the Active Wizard’s dynamic workflow with the Activiti workflow engine embedded in Alfresco 4.0. The Active Wizard has supported Documentum workflow since 2002. For this new effort, we re-examined some of the fundamental concepts behind the Active Wizard’s dynamic workflow. This post will overview those concepts, and how the […]