In moving our legacy repositories customers to new modern solutions, one of the major recommendations to reduce cost, risk and stress is a rolling migration. In a discussion with a client last week, there was some confusion in mixing a rolling migration with a federated search. This post will discuss the differences and how a […]
Alfresco Search Interface Comparison – ADF and OpenContent Search
See how Alfresco’s ADF search components compare to OpenContent Search
DynamoDB 11 Billion Benchmark Search Index Success!!! – Lessons Learned
TSG initiated our 11 Billion benchmark test on Friday, May 10th. The first phase of the benchmark was aimed at building a large repository with our OpenMigrate ingestion tool and proving access for OpenContent Search, OpenContent Case and OpenAnnotate. The initial ingestion phase concluded on May 17th with 11 Billion documents and ingestion speeds of […]
Redaction – Bulk Redaction from Search and Thoughts for GDPR
As detailed earlier in our Redacting Roadmap and as we have been posting this week, both the OpenContent Management Suite and OpenMigrate are adding capabilities for document redaction. While previous posts posts detailed redacting content across a case folder with OpenContentCase as well as text and pattern redaction as part of an ingestion process with OpenMigrate, this post will demonstrate how to redact documents […]
Documentum Search – Lucene versus FAST
As mentioned in a previous article, many clients are moving to away from FAST in preparation for the eventual release of Documentum Search Services (DSS) slated for release in June that leverages the open source product, Apache Lucene. This post will share the results from one client that executed a proof of concept test to […]
Alfresco Search Interface Comparison – Alfresco Share and OpenContent Search
See how Alfresco Share’s search interface compares to OpenContent Search
OpenContent Digital Archive
Streamline Index and Search for Digital Assets OpenContent Digital Archive provides ECM users with an intuitive interface to import, index, and search digital assets. It provides the following benefits: Centralization of all digital assets within your organization. Quickly bulk index digital assets in batches Import large files, including video and audio, in a streamlined approach. […]
OpenContent Search – Add an Attribute to a Search Form
See how easy it is to add a new attribute to a search form in OpenContent Search using the admin GUI
OpenContent Search – Search Results View Options
Check out this short demo that shows OpenContent Search’s options when it comes to formatting the search results view.
OpenContent Search – Search Results Filtering
Check out this short demo that shows how users can filter search results in OpenContent Search.
Documentum Search Services – The Real Deal
Way back at Momentum 2001 in Chicago, I remember having an in-depth conversation with a Documentum architect in integrating Autonomy into the Documentum platform. TSG was implementing Autonomy at the time and Documentum was looking to build a pluggable architecture into Documentum in which any search engine could be integrated. The 5.3 platform helped usher […]
OpenContent Search – Full Text Search
Check out this short demo to see how full text document searching works in OpenContent Search.
DynamoDB – Amazon Web Services 11 Billion Document Benchmark
TSG started a 11 Billion Document Benchmark with DynamoDB last Friday to test and verify the power of Amazon Web Services as well as the TSG ECM products on an unprecedented scale. As of this morning we have migrated approximately 6.3 billion documents averaging 20,000 ingested per second, well over halfway to our goal of […]
Documentum Search Interface Comparison – Webtop and OpenContent Search
See how Documentum’s Webtop search interface compares to OpenContent Search
Amazon Textract for Full Text Search
TSG had added Amazon Textract to our ECM offerings for Alfresco, Documentum, Hadoop and DynamoDB as well as our search offerings with Solr and Elastic Search. Previously, we looked at Textract’s text extraction capabilities. For this post, we will discuss and demonstrate how Amazon Textract can be leveraged as a modern OCR indexing engine for […]
OpenContent Search – Saved Search
Check out this short demo to see how public and private saved searches work in OpenContent Search.
OpenContent Search – Take Actions on Documents from Search Results
Check out this short demo to see how users can take actions on one or more documents from the search results screen
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.
MyDocumentum for SharePoint (MDSP) – Some Initial Thoughts
As SharePoint continues to gain traction as a collaboration tool of choice, it is increasingly common for many of the organizations utilizing it as well as Documentum to struggle with how to get these two technologies to coexist. How can users seamlessly search and view content managed by Documentum from SharePoint sites? How can users […]
DynamoDB – Database model for Document Management
One of the ongoing myths about DynamoDB for Document Management we hear too often is “but isn’t that just for big data?” This post will try to explain the benefits of DynamoDB’s big data capabilities and data model in a Document Management context compared to traditional database systems. Examples will include how we are currently […]
Hadoop – Disrupting the Relational Database Component of ECM
We had a good conversation yesterday with a long-time and innovative TSG client. The client has a mix of technical and business skills that make him a visionary in a highly regulated industry in regards to Enterprise Content Management. In addition to our normal catch-up discussions about plans for the year and what are we seeing […]
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.
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 […]
OpenContent Search Overview
OpenContent Search provides a configurable, stream-lined, interface to efficiently process documents and tasks. It can be used in conjunction with other ECM interfaces such as Webtop, Share, etc. or as a stand-alone interface. Users are able to quickly access content from their underlying enterprise content management platform. Search across different document types, date ranges and […]
ECM Sales Myths for 2019
In the hunt for “what to talk to customers about next”, we often see many of the ECM vendor sales teams get behind a concept, or technology, that can be marketed easily but isn’t always something clients eventually do or are successful implementing. For this post, we will list some of the myths (including a […]
DynamoDB 11 Billion Benchmark 11 Thousand Concurrent Users Success!!! – Lessons Learned
TSG initiated our 11 Billion benchmark on Friday, May 10th. As of today we have completed the fourth and final phase, testing our repository with 11,000 concurrent users. This post will share the results.
Documentum D2 vs. OpenContent Management Suite – Search Comparison
Check out this video to see how OpenContent Management Search compares with Documentum’s D2. OCM Search allows for configuration of views, documents, departments, groups and other common interface components. Coding and re-validation can be eliminated or significantly reduced when business process changes or a new department needs to come on board. Learn more about the […]
DynamoDB and Hadoop/HBase as a Document Store
How Key Design can be used to reduce index requirements TSG continues to have success with Hadoop/HBase and DynamoDB as alternatives to legacy ECM platforms that rely on relational databases. As more clients adopt modern NoSQL platforms for ECM, we are seeing additional and interesting benefits from NoSQL/Key-Value database. This post will highlight the ‘key’ […]
Documentum – Webtop and OpenContent Folder Comparison
As part of our making Documentum Better in 2018 series, this post will look at how users can work with folders and documents within a folder in Webtop as compared to OpenContent Management Suite. In prior articles, we’ve explored how users add documents to the repository and search for documents. For this post, we will […]
OpenContent Management Suite – Configure Search
See how administrators can configure the Advanced Search module in OpenContent Search
Hadoop Web Service REST API for Enterprise Content Management using TSG's OpenContent
Many of our ECM clients often develop their own Web Services layer to isolate their applications from the back-end repository as well as provide a vehicle to add in their own services to talk to other non-ECM systems. OpenContent was developed as part of our Documentum practice to give clients a standard web services architecture […]
EMC Documentum Search Services (DSS) Beta Recap
Over the past few months, TSG has been able to sit in on the DSS Beta program as a read only participant. The DSS beta completed last week, and it’s been valuable to hear how the beta has progressed. From what we’ve heard, the DSS software was successful for the customers participating in the beta. […]
Documentum or Alfresco – HPI 2.4 adding support for Folder Browsing
We are excited to announce that our latest HPI code base will include Folder Browsing. This post will discuss why we have added it as well as present a video of the early capabilities.
Hadoop – Data Model for ECM applications
As we have talked to clients about Hadoop with HBase for ECM, too often we hear “but isn’t that just for big data?” This post will try to explain the benefits of Hadoop’s big data capabilities and data model in an ECM context compared to traditional database systems.
TSG HPI Search Alfresco Webinar
TSG and Alfresco co-hosted another successful webinar discussing the simplication of search on ECM platforms using our HPI Search Interface. HPI Search is a great way for consumers to find content quickly in a streamlined search interface that is easy to use and configurable. HPI Search Interface on Alfresco utilizes our OpenContent web services using […]
HPI Search for Alfresco
To go along with the release of High Performance Interface (HPI) 1.1.5, TSG is pleased to announce HPI Search for the upcoming Alfresco 3.2 release. Most ECM users are consumers of the information stored in the repository, and consumers need a quick and efficient way to retrieve the documents they are searching for. One complaint […]
OpenContent Management Suite – Fall 2019 3.3 Release
TSG is happy to announce the Fall 2019 release, version 3.3, of the OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS)! For this post, we will take a look at some of the new features and notable enhancements included in this release.
ECM 2.0 – Can you build it yourself?
Recently Gartner Analyst and long-time ECM evangelist Marko Sillapaa posted an interesting article titled “Why Build a Content Services Platform from Scratch?” . In the article Marko correctly points out that “build your own” isn’t easy and it’s better to avoid home grown solutions where support could be required for 20 years. An alternative viewpoint comes […]
Alfresco Share – Folder Comparison with OpenContent Management Suite
As part of our 2018 comparison series between Alfresco Share and the OpenContent Management Suite, we previously discussed the search interface as well as the contributor interface. For this post, we will look into the available functionality for both consumers and contributors when looking at a group of related documents, typically contained within a folder.
OpenContent Search – View Document and Edit Properties
Check out how OpenContent Management Suite allows users to view documents in the system and edit document metadata. OpenContent Search provides a configurable, stream-lined, interface to efficiently process documents and tasks. It can be used in conjunction with other ECM interfaces such as Webtop, Share, etc. or as a stand-alone interface. Users can view both […]
Alfresco Solr Issues – when does just leveraging the database make sense?
One of the big improvements coming with Alfresco 5.2 has been an update of the Solr integration to Solr 6. Some of our clients leveraging the old version of Solr with 5.1 or 5.0 have sometimes experience Solr inconsistency issues where documents in Alfresco haven’t yet been indexed in Solr for a variety of reasons. […]
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 […]
Documentum and Alfresco – Mobile Access to Effective Content
One of our clients has recently implemented HPI for mobile access of approved documents. This post will present the business case as well as a quick look at the client’s particular implementation.
Documentum Business Continuity – A Cached Content Approach
One of the more successful applications we see long-term Documentum customers implement successfully is a business continuity solution based on caching approved content to a separate “read-only” repositories. This post will discuss the reasons for business continuity solutions and integration options for Documentum as well as business continuity war-stories from selective clients.
EMC World – 2011 – Day Three – ECM Strategy and Roadmap – 2011/2012 – Mark Arbour – Head of Product Management – ECM Applications
Attended another roadmap session focused on next 18 months. This post will try to summarize and present TSG thoughts.
Momentum 2010 – Documentum xCP
This post will discuss xCP – Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform as presented at Momentum 2010 – Lisbon. Case Management and xCP
Webtop Search Query Customization
Customized webtop searches don’t always return what you expect. The actual SQL that is running the search behind the scenes by webtop often differs across databases. To check the generated SQL on Webtop 6 or Webtop 6.5, hold down the “control” key while you click on the edit search button on the search results page. […]
Documentum or Alfresco Interface – Ready for an Upgrade?
With the Alfresco Content Accelerator available for both Documentum and Alfresco repositories, we have seen a recent surge in modernization and replacement of older interfaces. For this post, we will take a deep-dive into some of the components of older interfaces and contrast those features with modern features from the Alfresco Content Accelerator.
Documentum D2, Webtop and OpenContent Search Comparison
D2, Webtop and OpenContent Search Comparison
Alfresco Solutions from TSG
One of the more confusing terms with in the Alfresco ecosystem has always been solution. Is an Alfresco solution a software product or consulting offering? Is Case Management a solution or is it more infrastructure? At TSG, our Alfresco Solutions are represented by business focused applications that are a mix of our enterprise class software, […]