In discussing our next steps as part of our Amazon Web Services practice, one exciting item TSG is pursuing this quarter will be focused on Amazon DynamoDB and adding Enterprise Content Management capabilities. This post will begin a series of posts on our design and development activities to provide an OpenContent connection to Amazon DynamoDB.
OpenContent Search – Bulk Redaction
Check out this short demonstration of how OpenContent Search can be used to redact text in bulk based on results of a repository query.
OpenContent Search – Consumer Portal Overview
One of the top recommendations we make for clients is to publish content from an ECM repository to a Consumer Portal for search and view consumer users. Check out this video for an overview of this consumer portal interface.
Documentum and Alfresco – TSG HPI HTML5 Mobile Offering
TSG has completed our initial development efforts for our High Performance Interface (HPI) Mobile, our specific offering for a variety of devices leveraging HTML5. This post will discuss our approach and rationalization along with links to screencams in our learning zone.
OpenContent Search – Date Searching
Check out this short demo that shows how OpenContent Search allows users to execute flexible date searches
Documentum and Alfresco – Versioning, Security and Relationship Differences
One of the more common requirements we see from our manufacturing and operation clients is tight control around document versioning. In some cases, for example Pharmaceuticals, these systems are tightly regulated (and possibly audited) by a government agency such as the FDA. As we see more and more clients choosing Alfresco over Documentum, this post […]
Alfresco – Content Management Simplified for the Modern User
TSG just hosted a lunch and learn in Boston on May 20th and is hosting one tomorrow, May 22nd in Minneapolis focused on Content Management and the Modern User. There is still room available if you are in the area and interested in attending. This post will highlight our thoughts on the Modern Content Management user […]
Documentum, Mobile and IMAP – A standard and open source approach for email archiving and mobile access
TSG has started initial research and development on an alternative approach for email archiving and mobile access with Documentum, based on a client project that utilized Alfresco IMAP. In prepping for our client briefing next week, we thought we would share our initial thoughts on an IMAP and Documentum approach.
Alfresco 4.0 – New Feature Comparison to Documentum (Part 1)
The Alfresco 4.0 Community Edition has been out since October, with an upcoming Enterprise release in the next month or so. Alfresco has dubbed Alfresco 4.0 as “the most significant release” of Alfresco to date. Instead of summarizing the major new functionality features and enhancements, below are some new features in the core Alfresco repository […]
Documentum Webtop Customizations – What should you do next?
Webtop Customizations are a consistent source of concern for internal IT. Concerns range from level of development effort to upgrade cost and long-term support. Specific concerns include: Business changes and customizations must be redone when Webtop versions change Internal resource staffing and the need to retain Documentum programmers Documentum support for new releases This post […]
Box and ECM – What is Box missing?
Box and other Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) tools have been very successful filling the next generation document collaboration needs. Like SharePoint before it, Box and other tools, while being great at sharing files, being successful in collaboration doesn’t necessarily lead to success in ECM. Back in December of 2016, we wrote an […]
Alfresco Contributor Interface Comparison – Alfresco Share and OpenContent Search
See how Alfresco Share’s contributor interface compares to OpenContent Search for functionality such as document import, content editing, and metadata editing.
11 Billion Documents, 12 Months Later – Thoughts and best practices 1 year after our industry leading document benchmark.
TSG initiated our 11 Billion Document DynamoDB benchmark on Friday, May 10th 2019 and ended all of our testing activities on June 20th 2019 with our findings documented in our DynamoDB 11 Billion Document Migration – Summary of Findings post. The benchmark was an unbelievable success with our team learning many lessons in regards to […]
Veeva Vault – Documentum Integration Options
One of the issues our Veeva Vault and other document management clients often struggle with is searching for content across Veeva Vault and other existing repositories, such as Documentum. Scenarios like sharing manufacturing specifications that are stored in a Documentum repository with Veeva-based eTMF and Submissions applications are difficult to support as users will typically […]
ECM 2.0 – What does it mean?
Great whitepaper available at Deep Analysis from long-time ECM analyst Alan Pelz-Sharpe entitled “Intelligent Information Management – From ECM 1.0 to 2.0”. This post will highlight the relevant points and add our thoughts. ECM 2.0 – What are the opportunities? We would agree with Alan that, while repository centric ECM 1.0 systems dominate the market, […]
Building an ECM Search Interface in Less Than 10 Minutes
Check out this short video that shows how we can use the OpenContent Admin to create an ECM search interface in less than 10 minutes.
Alfresco – ADF and OpenContent Folder Comparison
In the previous post of our ADF and OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS) comparison series, we’ve compared how the search as well as the contributor interfaces work in ADF vs. OCMS. As we’ve done previously with our comparison series blog posts, (Alfresco Share and Documentum) for this next post we’ll turn our attention to the available functionality for […]
Alfresco Folder Interface Comparison – Alfresco Share and OpenContent Search
See how Alfresco Share’s folder and document viewing interface compares to OpenContent Search and Case.
DynamoDB – ECM / Content Process Services Roadmap
One of the key TSG efforts for the end of 2018 is extending Amazon’s DynamoDB to include document management capabilities with connectivity to the all of the TSG products including the OpenContent Search, OpenContent Case, OpenAnnotate and OpenMigrate. This post will present our plans and roadmaps along with key dates.
Documentum Search Interface Comparison
See how Documentum’s search interfaces compare to OCMS. Products highlighted are Documentum Webtop, D2 and xCP.
Search Interfaces – Alfresco Share, OpenContent, or roll your own?
Check out this short video that overviews ECM search in Alfresco Share vs. OpenContent vs. rolling your own interface.
Documentum Risk – Top 5 Reasons to Ditch Webtop
As we have been mentioning her in other posts, due to the purchase Documentum by OpenText, many clients are looking at ways to reduce the risk of an unknown Documentum future. This post will look into the risk of the most popular Documentum interface, Webtop.
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: […]
Alfresco Multi-Tenancy and HPI
This week we had a new client into the office to brainstorm on ways the client could leverage HPI as part of their cloud based content management offering. In addition to the infrastructure and interface discussions, the conversations also involved lots of joint partnership opportunities around selective case studies. This post will share some of […]
Documentum D2 3.1 – What are some of the limitations?
Recently there has been a lot of buzz and marketing surrounding EMC Documentum’s user interface, D2. Many clients have asked for information on the product, and we’ve spent some time doing our own evaluation and comparisons with other products. When weighing the costs and benefits of implementing D2 versus other available products like Webtop, TSG’s […]
Enterprise Content Management – State of the Industry – 2015
TSG is holding our annual client briefing on June 1st and June 2nd. To kickoff the meeting, I will be conducting a “State of the ECM Industry – 2015” Overview. This post will present the highlights of that presentation.
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 […]
Documentum or Alfresco – Use of Related Folders
One of the items our Documentum and Alfresco customers constantly struggle with is setting up their folder taxonomy in such a way that the taxonomy minimizes the requirement to jump between folders or open up search screens when performing a specific task within a folder. One of the very successful additions to our High Performance […]
Claim Document Efficiency – How to improve customer experience and satisfaction.
One of the goals of most claims processing/member service departments for Auto, Health or any type of insurance is how to improve the efficiency of the claim document access and processing for a better customer experience, satisfaction and retention. In regards to documents, more and more insurance clients are looking to make claim document access […]
OpenContent Management Suite – Spring 2019 – 3.2 Release
TSG is happy to announce the Spring 2019 release, version 3.2, 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 the 3.2 release.
Alfresco Contributor Interface Comparison – ADF and OpenContent Search
See how Alfresco’s ADF contributor components compare to OpenContent Search
OpenContent Search – Proximity Date Control
Check out this short demo of OpenContent Management Suite’s Proximity Date control, which allows searching for content in proximity to today’s date.
Hadoop and Its Opportunities for Enterprise Content Management
In doing our predictions post for 2015, one thing we have been discussing and targeted for further research is Hadoop and potential opportunities for Enterprise Content Management. This post will begin a series of posts on our thoughts and R&D activities to provide an OpenContent connection to Hadoop.
Hadoop for Enterprise Content Management – Adding PDF Renditions with Adlib
As we have discussed in our Hadoop Series, more and more companies are considering Hadoop for storage and management of documents and files. Just like our ECM clients, companies storing documents or scanned files in Hadoop want to provide PDF renditions of documents for easy viewing and other PDF capabilities. This post will discuss how […]
Documentum and Alfresco – Open Source Interface – Preview of HPI 2.1
We are working with a couple of large clients on the latest update for our High Performance Interface (HPI). The 2.1 release will have an all-new interface as well as numerous functions and features not available in the previous release. This post will present a preview of the HPI 2.1 release.
Documentum Mobile and Alfresco Mobile – HPI Offering –Feedback From Our Clients
Earlier this month TSG released information on our first Mobile Device Offering (HPI Mobile). We have spent the last few weeks demoing it to our clients and gathering their feedback. Below are some of their thoughts. Please share yours as well. You can view the demo in our Learning Zone.
Documentum Claims Processing – User Interview
On May 14th, TSG conducted a post-launch interview with a client user, Jim, responsible for claims processing. For client confidentiality, we will not be sharing the client or user full name. The client is a division of a major insurance company and long-time Documentum user. The overall solution involves AS 400 based policy and claims […]
Migrating Documentum to Alfresco – User Interface Overview
This is the third post in our series on migrating from Documentum to Alfresco. As we pointed out in our disclaimer in our initial post on this subject, we are not saying Alfresco is better than Documentum, just different. Which Interface to compare? The challenge in comparing Documentum to Alfresco interfaces is both solutions offer […]
The Deep Analysis Podcast – The 11 Billion File Benchmark
Dave Giordano, CEO of TSG, recently sat down with Alan Pelz-Sharpe to discuss our recent 11 Billion File Benchmark on AWS and DynamoDB. Additionally, hear Dave’s thoughts on the future of ECM and why companies are considering alternatives to the traditional ECM Suite.
DynamoDB 11 Billion Document Benchmark – Summary of Postings
TSG initiated our 11 Billion Document DynamoDB benchmark on Friday, May 10th 2019 and ended all of our testing activities on June 20th 2019. The benchmark was an unbelievable success with our team learning many lessons in regards to scaling AWS, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch and our OpenContent and OpenMigrate products. This post will present a summary […]
Documentum – Getting more out of Documentum D2
Back in 2011, Documentum, still part of EMC, licensed/purchased D2 as the next generation interface to replace Documentum Webtop. While D2 has not been very successful in converting existing Webtop customers for a variety of reasons, there is a large number of clients that had invested in D2 before 2016 when Documentum stopped investing in it to […]
Documentum – Improving the Webtop Experience
Most Documentum customers we talk to utilize Webtop in some capacity as a user interface to the repository. As we’ve posted in the past, we recommend that clients move away from Webtop as it’s an outdated interface that has not been a target for investment since the EMC/Dell days, and certainly is not in line […]
Why should your company move from a shared drive to Enterprise Content Management (ECM)?
In the past, we have talked about why Box will never be a serious ECM – but when we talk to our clients, almost all of them have one or more “shared” drives that are used to store documents. For this post, let’s explore exactly what we mean by a “shared” drive and why your company […]
Documentum – What is the business case to replace it?
Last week after meeting with some FileNet customers, we posted on the developing a business case to replace FileNet. Some of the feedback we got was that the article could be applied to other ECM tools, particularly from Documentum customers. This post will discuss the development of a business case with both a hard and […]
OpenContent Compliance Solution – Search
This is the first demo in the Compliance Solution Demo series. In this short demo, we take a look at searching and viewing a document in the OpenContent Compliance Solution.
Alfresco and Amazon Web Services – Disrupting Legacy Content Services – Alfresco Day London – Keynote
TSG gave a keynote presentation on December 7th for Alfresco Day London. Our topic “Alfresco and AWS – Disrupting Legacy Content Services” presented our thoughts on how the combination of a movement to the cloud, specifically Amazon’s cloud, along with the additional content created by digital transformation is disrupting the main Legacy ECM vendors. This […]
Documentum or Alfresco – Performance for viewing documents in browser based applications.
I was talking with a client yesterday that is building a custom application and the topic of viewing performance came up, specifically, “which viewer is the fastest”? The client has looked at a number of common options. This post will discuss the many components of document viewing performance that are similar for Documentum or Alfresco.
Documentum – Understanding DQL’s Performance Limitation with xPlore
Retrieving data from a Documentum Repository using DQL is a common and robust process with Documentum. With addition of the xPlore search engine, there are some challenges that experienced DQL users may find unique. This post will discuss our experience with DQL and xPlore.
Thoughts on the 2012 Alfresco Roadmap
Last month, Alfresco updated the 2012 Product Roadmap on the Alfresco Wiki, providing a rough outline of things to come for Alfresco. Aside from the core repository and Share interface, cloud and mobile are obviously a huge focus for this year. The following are some thoughts on some of the more interesting enhancements planned for 2012. […]
Documentum D2 – Initial Thoughts
Back on November 1st, 2011, EMC/Documentum announced an exclusive licensing agreement with C6, a French Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software provider and long-time partner. Over the holidays a webinar was held that included a live demo of the tool. For this post, we will present our initial thoughts on the product for those evaluating use […]