Special Note: Anyone that is planning an upgrade from Documentum 5.3 to 6.5 should look closely at this note as some types of upgrades (clone or in-place) could result in content that was retrievable from 5.3 not being available in 6.5. This post was developed based on recent work for a major pharmaceutical client. The client, […]
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 […]
FileNet – How to retire in weeks, not months – Alfresco Webinar May 29
Tony Parzgnat, the OpenMigrate Senior Product Manager, will be conducting a webinar with Alfresco May 29th on an innovative approach to retire FileNet.
Alfresco Consulting – Do you really need it?
As more and more IT groups look to replace their legacy ECM solutions with Alfresco, one of the questions that typically comes up is if the group should look for consulting help, either from Alfresco themselves or an external partner. This post will summarize the typical roles in an Alfresco implementation and give a rough […]
FileNet – Migrating to Amazon S3
We had an interesting call with an insurance client yesterday currently on FileNet but looking for ways to start to move away from FileNet to a more modern solution, preferably in the cloud. Their existing FileNet implementation was slightly unique in that they didn’t rely on FileNet to store any specific attributes about the document, […]
Documentum Alternatives and Disruptors – Alfresco or SharePoint?
I was at a Documentum client this week that is reviewing their ECM strategy as part of planning for 2012 and 2013. Given a somewhat difficult relationship with EMC due to a contentious software audit, the client wanted to review alternatives and consider a Documentum migration to a new ECM system as an alternative to […]
Upgrading to Alfresco 6.0 Best Practices
With the recent release of Alfresco 6, many clients are beginning to plan to upgrade to the latest version of Alfresco in the coming months. TSG has been assisting clients with upgrades for years, we have developed several best practices to make the process successful. When performing an upgrade, organization and planning are essential. While […]
Alfresco – Do More with OpenMigrate Services
With TSG is now part of the Alfresco family, we want to give new and existing Alfresco customers an idea of how to leave legacy ECM solutions using OpenMigrate. This post will include a high-level video along with additional links to other helpful migration topics. If you have questions or would like to see an […]
TSG joins the Alfresco Family
With the news that TSG has joined the Alfresco family, many of our customers, ECM/CSP analysts and even competitors have been asking why make this change. This post will discuss the thoughts that led to the decision to join Alfresco as well as the opportunities for the future.
FileNet AWS Cloud Native? Thoughts on recent announcement
IBM recently announced a new Quick Start capability for FileNet to run in AWS. This post will share our thoughts and try to better explain the “cloud native” concept with a comparison between FileNet’s offering, Alfresco’s offering and TSG’s own DynamoDB offering with some detail on how the three different offerings run in Amazon Web […]
ECM Large Repositories – Volume Testing With the TSG Test Harness
One of the more interesting achievements of the TSG 11 Billion Document benchmark was our ability to quickly load a large repository and test performance for search and retrieval performance as well as concurrent usage. For those clients considering developing a large repository of documents, TSG now has both the experience as well as additional […]
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.
FileNet to AWS – An 80 Million Document Case Study
As part of TSG’s ongoing efforts to assist clients move from legacy ECM systems like FileNet to modern cloud alternatives, TSG has recently published a case study highlighting how one FileNet customer was able to successfully move to Amazon Web Services.
DocFinity – Migrating to Amazon S3
TSG is currently working with an insurance client migrating from DocFinity to the Amazon cloud. This post will describe how TSG is assisting the client move to a more modern solution with Amazon Web Services and specifically Amazon S3 leveraging our OpenMigrate migration framework.
Documentum and Alfresco – What are some of the bigger differences?
Many of the more popular posts over the years have been surrounding Migrating from Documentum to Alfresco and other comparison posts. While some of the differences are obvious (Big Public Company/Division of EMC versus Private Company, 20+ Years old versus 10 Years Old…..), for this post, we thought we would summarize some of the not […]
2017 ECM Thoughts and Predictions as well as recap of 2016 postings
With the beginning of 2017, it is time for our annual thoughts from our blog from 2016 as well as the ECM industry in general. Biggest news of the year – Dell purchases EMC, OpenText purchases Documentum from Dell Clearly the biggest news of the year for our readers was the purchase by Dell of […]
Life Sciences Project Sampling
Technology Services Group offers many services and solutions to assist the Life Sciences Community. Consumer Search and Retrieve Application Clients typically spend a lot of money and effort developing a robust interface for their authors and approvers, but often this interface can be “too much” for users just looking to view and print approved documents. […]
Documentum – Momentum EMC World 2014 Recap – Some bunts, hits as well as some swings
In talking about our overall thoughts of EMC World and Momentum 2014, I thought I would resurrect our baseball analogy from where we felt Documentum was too often swinging for the fences with grandiose product plans and relationships that were turning into more strikeouts than runs. As we mentioned in 2013, we were impressed with […]
Documentum – Momentum – EMC World 2014 – Day 2 – Rick Devenuti Keynote
The keynote is always the most significant event at Momentum. Last year, the significant announcement was EMA – a migration utility – see our write-up on 2014. This year’s presentation did not include any major announcements. Typically the presentation is shared on YouTube – we will add the link once available. Please forgive any typos […]
Documentum – EMC World 2013 – Momentum – Day 1 – EMC Documentum 7.0 Roadmap
One of the better roadmap presentations was given by Aaron J. Aubrecht and Patrick Walsh. Some great useful and candid information.
Documentum Client for Outlook (DCO) – A cautionary tale in regards to message formats and object types – comment if you have experience to share.
We have two clients that are struggling with the combination of email formatting as well as the Documentum Client for Outlook (DCO) regarding format and different releases. TSG doesn’t see a ton of DCO or email implementations so we thought we would share our client’s experiences here. Please comment if you have any DCO experience […]
Documentum r_object_id – Thoughts and Best Practices
During our upgrade and migration work, we typically get asked the question “can OpenMigrate preserve the r_object_id during the upgrade process?” Clients typically look for this because they are using the r_object_id as the “link” between Documentum and another system (PeopleSoft, SAP, Custom….).
Migrating From Documentum with OpenMigrate: Best Practices
Migrating out of a full-feature ECM solution like Documentum can introduce a number of challenges; OpenMigrate can help resolve the problems.
Alfresco 5 Deployment : Tips and Tricks
TSG has had two recent clients deploy Alfresco 5. After stabilizing the environments to handle the proper production load, we gathered a list of tips and tricks that have helped improve performance for Alfresco 5 around transformation and Microsoft SQL Server. For clients familar with Alfresco 4, we have found making some small changes within […]
Deploying Alfresco on Amazon EC2
Given all of the “buzz” around Cloud Computing, TSG has had the opportunity to deploy Alfresco Cloud solutions on Amazon EC2 for a number of clients, as well as a chance to experiment with the flexibility of using Amazon EC2 for development purposes. Amazon EC2 fits under the Infrastructure-as-a-Services (IaaS) model, which provides virtual servers […]
FileNet – What is the business case to replace it?
Last week we met with two different companies considering moving from FileNet to a more modern ECM, Alfresco. For both customers, while they liked some of the features and functions of a more modern interface stressed the need to come up with a good business case. This post will discuss the development of a business […]
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 […]
Alfresco – Adding the ability to query on very large data sets
During a recent migration from an on-premise Documentum system to Alfresco on Amazon Web Services, a client wanted to check the target repository for document counts and other pertinent information to ensure that the migration executed smoothly. For example, a client may want to query to know “how many documents of type X are in the […]
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 – Working with PDF and Renditions
One of the major recommendations we make for our clients is to leverage PDF as much as possible as both source documents and renditions within Alfresco. This post will share some of our observations and lessons learned.
DynamoDB and AWS – How to build your own ECM capabilities for massive scale and performance
After the successful 11 Billion Document Benchmark with DynamoDB, we had a discussion with a couple of the major analysts as well as a nice shout-out from Jeff Potts on ECM Architect. We received a ton of great feedback on the scale of what we were able to accomplish along with lots of discussion specifically […]
DynamoDB 11 Billion Benchmark Add Documents Success!!! – Lessons Learned
TSG initiated our 11 Billion benchmark 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 20,000 […]
ECM 2.0 – Cloud for Metadata and On Premise Document/Object Storage
We have recently had some interesting discussions with clients in regards to storage of documents and objects on premise with cloud options for the meta-data. One of the advantages of the TSG solutions is that we can support a variety of alternatives for both on premise as well as cloud based document and object storage. […]
EFFS Promises and Legacy ECM Vendors – ECM Article Roundup
A couple of interesting ECM posts from some of the different analysts that were worth sharing over the last couple of weeks. This post will present some of those articles as well as our thoughts.
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 Consulting – What makes TSG different?
Over the last two quarters, TSG has acquired multiple Alfresco clients that had initially purchased both Alfresco software and services from a different Alfresco consulting firm. With Alfresco turning 10 years old, we predict that more and more mature Alfresco customers will be looking “What’s Next” and may consider switching their Alfresco consulting partner. One of the […]
Documentum – EMC World 2015 – Overall ECD Product Vision and Roadmap – Ahson Ahmad and Mark Arbour
Earlier this week, we wrote about the Documentum Platform Roadmap. We, along with many other attendees, mistook the first day’s session as the overall roadmap rather than just the Documentum Platform. This post will describe the overall Roadmap and present our thoughts.
Documentum – EMC World 2015 – Rohit Ghai President EMC Enterprise Content Division – What’s Next
The Keynote is always the real beginning of the Momentum conference. Rohit Ghai is the new leader of the renamed Enterprise Content Division (formerly Information Intelligence Group) that includes Documentum. This post will share our thoughts about the keynote.
Documentum or Alfresco – Insurance – extending existing data driven systems
Recently, TSG has seen an increase in the number of insurance clients looking to extend or replace components of their existing policy or claim systems with document management capabilities. Many of our recent insurance related posts have been focused on claim processing , policy and claim management as well as migration approaches like our recommendation for a rolling migration. For […]
New OpenMigrate Tutorials Available in TSG Learning Zone
TSG’s open source migration framework, OpenMigrate, offers extensive configuration and customization features. However, with this flexibility comes some complexity. OpenMigrate’s distribution includes nearly 20 sample migration projects, intended to get folks up and running quickly. But sometimes even getting the environment configured properly can be a nuisance. To address this issue, we’ve created several new […]
Documentum 6.6 Upgrade – Character Encoding Fail – Part II
This week we are urgently reminding clients, as part of their upgrade evaluation, to look seriously for character encoding issues in regards to their current Documentum content and the affect on upgrades.
Alfresco Consulting
Alfresco Strategic Partner Alfresco is the leading open source ECM repository leveraging best of breed open source technologies and enterprise scalability. Founded in 2005, Alfresco has quickly become a disruptor in the ECM market, making it a viable alternative to traditional legacy ECM vendors. Read the Doculabs Vendor Review of Alfresco here. As one of the […]
TSG OpenMigrate Supports Qumas
I’ve been working with a client who needs to consolidate two Qumas content repositories into a single system. Qumas is an Irish company that has a content management solution that runs standalone as well as on top of Documentum. My client was running both Qumas applications on top of Documentum. In working with client, we […]
Documentum – Top Tips for 2016
To begin 2016, we’d like to do a post surrounding our thoughts on what Documentum clients should planning for in the upcoming year. See previous posts in 2012 and 2010. This year’s post will review our earlier tips and highlight our thoughts for 2016.
Data Visualization Dashboard for ECM Migrations
The OM Dashboard can be deployed as a standalone desktop application (Windows, Mac or Linux) or as a traditional lightweight web application. The application just needs to have access to the machine where OpenMigrate is running. No configuration or deployment is needed, simply start the application and type in the URL.
Alfresco & Technology Services Group – Well Documented
TSG provides clients with a best-in-class approach for their Alfresco implementation. Whether that includes an initial implementation, migration expertise, integration with 3rd party tools or systems, or custom application development, TSG offers a variety of solutions and experience to assist with our clients Alfresco and ECM efforts.
Documentum and Momentum EMC World 2010 Recap
First off, a couple of clarifications The Content Management and Archiving (CMA) group of products (that included Documentum, Captiva…) has been changed to the Information Intelligence Group (IIG). We (TSG) are just going to stick with “Documentum” to keep things simple and relevant to our reader base. (Plus we save on having to explain the […]
PDF Renditions – leveraging Adlib as a high volume web based service
One of our high volume ECM clients has a need to convert many word documents on demand as part of a rolling migration approach. TSG is a partner with Adlib, the premier rendition services provider. In brainstorming with the client as well as Adlib, TSG has designed a massively scalable solution with Amazon Web Services […]
Migrating from FileNet in 6 Weeks – Case Study Available
As mentioned in previous posts, TSG has seen an uptick in clients choosing to finally move from legacy FileNet implementations to a new, modern ECM solution. While a decision to move to a new ECM is often postponed due to cost and time constraints, TSG has just posted a case study from one client’s experience […]
NYPIUA Accelerates Productivity with Alfresco and TSG – Press Release
SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alfresco Software, a leading provider of modern enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) software, announced that the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association (NYPIUA), in conjunction with Alfresco partner Technology Services Group (TSG), is leveraging Alfresco One, an ECM platform and TSG’s High Performance Interface (HPI) as its new […]