For those who had the opportunity to attend DevCon 2011, TSG presented this case study about developing myInfinitec, a portal provided to teachers to access resources to aid in working with special needs children. The slides from our DevCon 2011 presentation may be accessed here. The following will discuss lessons learned during initial development, including […]
Momentum 2010 – Thoughts on SharePoint
Consistent with Rick’s priority list from the last post, for this post we thought we would review the SharePoint related presentations from Momentum 2010 – Lisbon. Probably the best presentation was Mike Mohen and Andrew Chapman’s – Customizing and Enhancing Microsoft SharePoint Interoperability and introduction of the SharePoint Documentum Framework (SDF). SharePoint Documentum Framework
OpenContent Government
Break down silos of information and provide better well documented customer service. The OpenContent Government Solution brings together a comprehensive view of documents across departments and agencies. TSG’s Government Solution is built using TSG’s OpenContent Search product. Reveals relationships between information across departments and agencies through dynamic linking; With greater visibility into related information, departments […]
OpenText & Documentum Consulting
OpenText & Documentum Products and Consulting Services TSG has been working with Documentum software has since its infancy in the 1990’s. How many people remember EDMS 98, Accelera, or the first wind-blown Momentum in Miami in 1996? We were there! As Documentum, now part of OpenText, has aged, customers want improved capabilities that are just […]
Alfresco Summit 2014 Recap
This year, for the first time, TSG had a booth at both the San Francisco and London Alfresco Summit events as the 2014 Americas Partner of the Year. The major announcements included the release of Alfresco 5.0 and the standalone Activiti Designer. We will be reviewing the product updates in an upcoming Alfresco user group meetup […]
Enterprise Content Management: Watch for These Disruptors – Document Strategy Guest Contributor
Dave Giordano, President and Founder of TSG, was invited to be a guest contributor for the Document Strategy blog. The following is a re-publish of his first article covering disruption in the ECM space. Read the original post here.
HPI Dashboard Updated for Version 2.4
The HPI Dashboard has been revamped for the 2.4 release. Check out the video below to see it in action! Along with a look and feel facelift, we have added drag and drop capabilities into the dashboard as well. Dashlets can also be restricted to group membership. This allows, for example, only Active Wizard users […]
Documentum D2 – Thoughts on the Content Library Use Case
We recently helped a client with a difficult implementation surrounding the “Content Library” function released back in April with D2 as a primary client. The use case is focused on managing project deliverables for large-scale multi-year projects. This post will describe some of the client’s struggles and our overall thoughts.
Elastic Services for ECM – TSG OpenContent Roadmap
Recently, TSG has seen increased interest in our Elasticsearch capabilities, particularly as it related to our 11 Billion Document Benchmark on AWS. As part of our product roadmap this quarter, TSG is announcing the formalization of our OpenContent Elastic Services as well as some new features that we are adding to our work with the […]
Alfresco on AWS Marketplace – OpenContent Management Suite
TSG, a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), is proud to announce the release of OpenContent Management Suite on Alfresco on the AWS Marketplace on Alfresco. With the new OCMS marketplace instance, TSG’s entire suite of products running on Alfresco can be deployed with just the click of a button. The deployed solutions not only […]
DynamoDB and Hadoop – Why Big Data will disrupt Document Management
Back in the 80’s, the emergence and low cost of PC’s, network and relational databases combined to create the beginnings of modern image management systems. Solutions and approaches gradually evolved to include documents and the creation of the ECM (enterprise content management/document management) industry. Back in 2015, TSG began brainstorming about what’s next for the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
HPI and OpenContent 2.1 Released as Open Source
Just a quick announcement – HPI 2.1 has been released as Open Source on the TSG downloads page. Check it out and let us know what you think! As an added update, a number of our Alfresco clients merged in significant updates for Alfresco after we tagged the 2.1 code branch. So, for anyone using […]
Documentum – What’s Next Updated for 2010
Back in 2007, we started offering a presentation for clients, “What’s Next for Documentum?” The presentation focused on what mature Documentum clients are doing “next”. Typically, mature customers: have an existing production install of Documentum have implemented tools “out of the box” with some or extensive customizations have had some success ….and are looking for […]
Documentum or Alfresco – ECM Audit Trail – thoughts on how to increase user activity
I had a great conversation with a long-time Documentum client in regards to the need for an audit trail and reporting capabilities from his document repository. While it is something we have done in the past, I thought it would make for a good post to share that experience as well as some of the […]
Documentum Top Tips for 2012
One of our more popular posts has been our “Top Tips for Documentum” last posted in 2010. For this post, we will update the tips as well as add some best practices as clients prep for 2012 planning.
Documentum to Alfresco Migration – TSG Compliance Solution for Regulated Industries
Last week we posted about solutions and how Documentum and Alfresco are focused on providing solutions in different ways. One major solution we see both Alfresco and Documentum targeting is Document Control/Compliance for life sciences, nuclear utilities and other regulated industries. Typically control requirements affect the creation and changing of SOPs, Policies, Procedures, Test Methods, […]
HPI – Expansion to support Contributors and Power Users
I am working with a client that will roll out HPI (TSG’s open source High Performance Interface) as their main Documentum interface for their contributors and power users. Typically users that simply need to search, view, and print documents use HPI as their main interface while power users have typically used Webtop or another custom interface.
Momentum 2010 – MyDocumentum for SharePoint
As pointed out in yesterday’s post, we are reviewing the various SharePoint connectivity solutions from Momentum 2010 in Lisbon. The best presentation was “Documentum and SharePoint Interoperability: Optimize SharePoint and Leverage Your Documentum Infrastructure” – by Andrew Chapman. MyDocumentum for SharePoint
Documentum xPlore – Admin Interface Review
We recently installed xPlore 1.0 SP1 in our environment in order to support a client installation, and we thought we’d share our thoughts on the Documentum xPlore Administrator application.
Virtual Momentum Lisbon 2010 and Midwest Documentum User Group
One last reminder – Midwest Documentum User Group (MWDUG) is coming up this Friday, October 29th, in downtown Chicago – presentations will include American Electric Power, United Airlines, Documentum Roadmap as well as others. There are still spots open if you are interested in attending. http://www.mwdug.com As we were talking to users outside of the […]
EMC World 2012 – May 22 – IIG Solutions – Andy Crowne and Dave von Klemperer
Andy is the Senior Director of World Wide Delivery and Dave is Director of Solutions with IIG Consulting. With the overall push theme of user-driven solutions, this session was very interesting given IIG’s overall goals. This post will highlight the presentation.
Documentum and Alfresco – Electronic Forms and Workflow User Requirements
We met with a client this week that is evaluating the Active Wizard for an electronic forms infrastructure to replace many paper, Word and PDF forms within the organization. The Active Wizard is TSG’s most popular Open Source offering (currently on version 4.0). This post will present the “high priority” requirements along with our thoughts […]
Documentum – Replacing External SharePoint Sites with a Simple Cached Approach
Many clients struggle with providing Documentum access to external users. Often times, access to “full featured” interfaces like D2 or Webtop can overwhelm simple retrieval of limited content. This post will discuss a simple solution developed for one of our clients.
Organizing Documents for Easy Management
While working with a couple of clients recently the question of how best to organize documents in their ECM systems came up. Both had started organizing documents by department but then realized for the long-term that organizing by document type worked better. While no one-way of organizing information may fit every ECM implementation this post […]
Alfresco for Life Sciences – Response to Client Questions
TSG recently responded to a client’s questions regarding using Alfresco versus Documentum or other solutions for Life Sciences. The questions were the next step after a demonstration of Alfresco and TSG solutions for controlled documents. The demonstrations are available in the learning zone. Change Request Document Control This post will share those questions and responses […]
Records Management Trend – Why the focus on just good enough?
TSG attended the MeR 2018 conference this past week. One consistent theme in multiple presentations was the focus on ‘good enough’ when implementing a records retention program rather than a detailed comprehensive plan that would require combing through compliance laws and policies and implementing complex retention schedules. This post will present our thoughts from the […]
Documentum D2 vs. HPI – Administration
Both TSG’s High Performance Interface (HPI) and Documentum D2 are driven by extensive configurations made in an administration module. In this post, we will overview the administration components available in HPI and D2 and demo making a search form configuration update in both applications.
Document Management – What It Is and Why You Need It
Many people in the world live and breathe document management and they may not even know it. The tools are built into their every day life and ideally make their jobs easier. Unfortunately, a majority of people in enterprises are sometimes leveraging tools that are not true document management solutions. A basic understanding of what true […]
Why Can’t I Change My Object Model?
Can you first just tell me what an object model is? In ECM, your object model is king. An object model is the organization of your digital content into specific types of folders and documents, as well as the attributes that reside on each one. It dictates so much about your system, both in the […]
OpenContent Management Suite – Digital Asset Management
Check out how OpenContent Search can make searching for digital assets simple in your ECM repository
Documentum – How to make it better – 2018 Blog Series
Based on feedback from multiple clients, TSG will be conducting a 2018 blog series on how to make Documentum better based on our 20+ years of client experience. Over the course of the next several weeks, we will be sharing best practices with both new posts as well as some of refreshed versions of our […]
Alfresco Printing – What are the issues and options?
On a call last week with a long-time Alfresco client, much of the discussion was around printing and the different options. While much of the information for different printing options exist within our products, this post will summarize for Alfresco clients the different issues and how the TSG approaches can provide a variety of different […]
Alfresco Performance – Making Property Queries Faster
Recently TSG has assisted multiple clients with unique scenarios to make Alfresco queries more efficient. Like a good auto mechanic that has learned tips and tricks for getting better performance from a car without sacrificing quality, TSG has recently developed performance improvements for Alfresco in OpenContent to address clients’ needs. This post will summarize the […]
OCMS Integration with Microsoft Teams
TSG recently announced our integration with Slack and we are now excited to announce a Microsoft Teams integration for the OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS). This post will overview the new functionality this provides an organization, as well as our thoughts on future features that could be added. The Rise of Messaging Platforms In the last […]
Redacting Roadmap – User Scenarios
As part of the TSG Product Roadmap and based on clients requests, we are currently in the midst of adding additional redaction capabilities across our product set. This post will discuss the different user redaction scenarios and how our products (OpenAnnotate, OpenMigrate and the OpenContent Search and Case) are being updated to satisfy these requests. These […]
OpenContent Management Suite – Fall 2018 Release
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.
IBM Content Manager and Content Manager onDemand (CMOD) Migrations – How to Migrate Quickly
Many of the TSG customers and prospects are struggling with old versions of Content Manager and Content Manager onDemand that have lived for decades with millions and even billions of documents. With the 2016 announcement that, while still being branded as IBM CMOD, all future development has been moved to UNICOM, most customers are looking […]
Machine Learning & ECM -Smarter Policy Management with Kira & OCMS
TSG recently built Kira integration into our OpenContent Management Suite to improve the Policy Management solution for our client, American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) for management and analysis of policy templates. This post will explain the solution as well as provide a video demonstration.
Mobius Content Services Migrations with OpenMigrate
TSG has recently seen several existing and new clients looking to migrate content from Mobius Content Services to other Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platforms. Reasons for migrating include consolidation of disparate ECM systems, the desire to move to a NoSQL ECM such as TSG’s DynamoDB and Hadoop solutions, and the need to regularly extract content […]
OCMS Integration with Slack
TSG is excited to announce a new Slack integration for the OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS). This post will overview the new functionality this provides an organization, as well as our thoughts on future features that could be added with Slack and other messaging platforms. The Rise of Messaging Platforms In the last 30 years, organizations […]
Alfresco Interface Options – Comparing OpenContent, ADF and Share – Summary
Over the last two years, TSG has posted multiple times regarding differences between the OpenContent Management Suite, the Alfresco Application Development Framework and Alfresco Share. While all approaches interact with the Alfresco repository, there are some subtle differences to consider. This post will share a summary of our previous posts for those looking at Alfresco […]
Alfresco – Do More with OpenContent Management Suite and OpenAnnotate
With TSG is now part of the Alfresco family, we want to give new and existing Alfresco customers an idea of how to do more with an Alfresco deployment by utilizing the OpenContent Management Suite and OpenAnnotate. This post will include a high-level video along with additional links to other unique features.
Content Enabling Existing Applications – Connecting to Anything
One common challenges for clients is content enabling existing data driven applications. As we have been posting since 2014 on how to add content capabilities to existing claim and policy systems, many clients have invested considerable time and effort into data management systems that need to link to documents. These systems need access to content […]
Alfresco’s Transactional Metadata Query System – Mystery Results
With the release of version 5.0, Alfresco officially stopped supporting the Lucene indexing subsystem, leaving Solr as Alfresco’s lone indexing solution. A major benefit of leveraging Lucene was its in-transaction indexing, making content searchable as soon as it was created. Solr, however, utilizes asynchronous indexing which leads to “eventual consistency”, meaning newly created content is not searchable right away. This […]
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.
Top 5 Differences between Records Management and Document Management
Several of our clients have been wrestling with the topic of Information Governance (IG) and the difference between Records Management (RM) and Document Management (DM). We participated in several discussions while at NIRMA where the need to incorporate Electronic Document Management functionality is falling under the Records Management department. Long term, records managers are looking at Records Management solutions […]
Transactional Document Management
In discussions with a client recently, we evaluated “out of the box” document management applications with more transactional applications. This post will discuss and compare different document management paradigms and how they compare for transactional document management.