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 […]
Documentum Annotation – OpenAnnotate
Clients often struggle with adding simple annotation capabilities to Documentum or Alfresco. Brava, PDF Annotation Services, Snowbound and Annodoc are all solutions we see regularly at clients. Issues with these solutions include: Price – per user licensing can be difficult to justify for casual or external users. Support – most tools require a client side […]
Office 365 – Check-in and Check-out with Documentum, Alfresco or Hadoop
One of the major issues for authors with Documentum, Alfresco or Hadoop has always been checking in a document from a browser based interface. We have recently completed adding Office 365 integration to our High Performance Interface (HPI) to allow clients to checkin and checkout without requiring Office on their device. This post will share […]
AnnoDoc for Documentum – End of Service/Support – OpenAnnotate as a Replacement
Similar to Documentum’s PDF Annotation Services End of Service/Support, CSC’s AnnoDoc team has announced that their Annotation tool for Documentum will be moving to unsupported as of July 2016. As a strategic partner with CSC, TSG is currently working with a multiple AnnoDoc clients to deploy TSG’s OpenAnnotate as a more robust, supported and lower cost replacement. This […]
Ephesoft Accounts Payable Solution for Alfresco, Documentum and Hadoop
Based on multiple recent client efforts, TSG is formalizing our solution for Accounts Payable. This post will present how Ephesoft Smart Capture, a open source document capture solution, can be combined with OpenMigrate and HPI to deliver a more robust invoice and check processing solution for Alfresco, Documentum or Hadoop
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 […]
Documentum or Alfresco – Bulk Upload and “Heads up” indexing
One of the most common issues we see at our clients is with the initial indexing of attributes for documents being imported into Documentum or Alfresco. This post will present the new “Heads up” indexing in HPI for both single and bulk import of documents.
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 […]
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.
Import Email Messages from GMail into your ECM Repository with HPI
We’ve seen many clients with requirements around importing emails into an ECM repository. For a long time, we’ve allowed ingesting outlook MSG emails in our HPI interface. To see how this works, check out this demo in the TSG Learning Zone. However, we’ve recently worked with some clients that have migrated to Gmail and Google […]
FileNet Support to End in 2019
IBM has formally announced that it is dropping support for FileNet version 5.2.X on April 30th, 2019. FileNet customers on 5.2.X need to decide whether to upgrade to the 5.5 version, run unsupported, or migrate to another option. This post will present our thoughts from talking with a FileNet customer working through the decision process.
Documentum D2 Annotations using OpenAnnotate
OpenAnnotate is a fully web-based annotation tool that allow users to quickly markup a document in a collaborative environment. Today we are going to be showing the Documentum D2 connector. Documentum’s D2 Config interface allows for an admin user to add “configurable” actions. In this case we have configured our “Annotate” action to show up […]
Documentum Migration to Veeva Vault – Best Practices
TSG has been assisting clients with document migrations, and particularly regulated clients, for over twenty years. For additional background and best practices – see our ECM Migrations – Top Ten Planning Tips for a Successful Migration. TSG has recently become an emerging Veeva parnter. One of our first efforts is to provide Documentum clients with […]
OpenContent Patient Records
Provide streamlined management of patient records. Given the recent uptick in the number of hospitals and medical offices looking to do more with their content as they focus on a shift to more team-based care and patient-centric care, OpenContent Patient Records was created. Typical types of content associated with patient records include: Medical Imaging X-rays, […]
Alfresco Content Accelerator for Patient Records
With the recent launch of the Claims Content Accelerator and the Policy and Procedure Content Accelerator we would also like to highlight how the interface has been enhanced to provide for an efficient patient records experience. This post will outline some of the new enhancements to the Alfresco Content Accelerator that extend the functionality in […]
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 […]
Migrations – Why do they fail? (12 Worst Practices)
TSG has had some interesting conversations with various client prospects recently who were interested in TSG’s best practices for migrations. While you can find a lot of references here to migration best practices (One Step vs Two, File Formats Lessons, Migrating 11 Billion Documents) , we thought for this post we would be slightly more […]
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.
Veeva Vault – How to Integrate with Other Applications
In some previous posts we discussed our addition of the Veeva Source and Target to our OpenMigrate platform. As we were becoming familiar with the Veeva API for the purposes of migration, we started to think what else could be integrated with a Veeva implementation. It is rare that an ECM system is completely standing […]
Federated Search versus Rolling Migration
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 […]
Extending Alfresco Security Beyond ACLs
Recently TSG worked with an Alfresco client that had unique requirements around document and folder security. In addition to traditional ACL security, the client needed the ability to tag documents with metadata that would deny users access to content unless they were members of a particular group. This post will focus on our approach for […]
Documentum, Alfresco or Hadoop – How to get more out of your Object Store
TSG conducted our annual client briefing on Monday June 5th. One of the more interesting presentations and discussions was on how clients are finding innovative ways to leverage the capabilities of the various object storage devices and technologies. This post will present some of our experiences and best practices in regards to object storage and […]
Controlled Printing in Alfresco and Documentum
In recent conversations with many of our manufacturing clients, Controlled Printing has become a frequent topic of conversation. We often see controlled print requirements in systems responsible for managing documents and records to prove that goods are being manufactured and processes are being executed in a repeatable, quality manner (i.e. manufacturing of a widget, plant […]
OpenContent Solr Services – New TSG Product Offering
As part of our campaign to make Documentum better, TSG is announcing the formalization of our OpenContent Solr Services as well as some new features that we are adding to our work with Solr. We have been working with Lucene and later Solr for over 12 years but have recently discovered several client scenarios 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 […]
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 Everteam Integration – A Better Records Management Experience
TSG has recently partnered with Everteam to build a connector that will allow easy management of records in Documentum using Everteam’s Archiving and Records Management solution everteam.records. In our de-risking Documentum RPS blog we highlight several of the complexities in using Documentum RPS and how we suggest simplifying them. While RPS is a full-featured solution, its […]
Improving Alfresco Versioning – Demonstration in Share
Check out this short demo for a preview of how TSG’s new Chain Versionable module works with documents in the Share interface. This new module allows Alfresco to treat each version in the repository as a first class citizen, which allows a single search to return multiple versions and each version can have it’s own […]
OpenText Enterprise World – Thoughts on the Keynote for Documentum Customers
Over the years, some of our more popular posts have been our thoughts on EMC World/Momentum which TSG had attended for the past 20 years. With Documentum being bought by OpenText, the Documentum Momentum event has died with Documentum related activities included in the OpenText Enterprise World event held earlier this month in Toronoto. Due […]
OpenContent Forms – Batch Records
TSG’s OpenContent Forms interface was rewritten from the ground up with ‘Batch Records’ in mind.
Hadoop well documented – Adding ECM attributes "on the fly"
Hadoop, a leading technology disruptor from the Big Data movement, is a massively scalable architecture capable of dealing with terabytes+ of unstructured data. As the cost of storage, memory and CPU continues to move toward almost free, we are seeing the clients looking to move away from traditional legacy ECM tools for the newer architecture and cost savings […]
OpenAnnotate – Alfresco Share Integration
TSG OpenSource Interface for Annotating documents in the Alfresco Share content repository.
Documentum – EMC World 2015 – Meet the Executives
Rohit Ghai – President, Jeetu Patel – Syncplicity, Jason Capital – Chief Revenue Officer, Ryan Davidsen – Global SE Lead , John OMelia – Senior Vice President – Documentum , Jeroen Van Rotterdam – Chief Technology Officer Session was described as being just Rohit and Chris McLaughlin, head of Marketing – Chris was a no-show. […]
Documentum Offline Viewer – Conflicting Date Display
As we mentioned earlier in the year, we have many clients looking to push content out of Documentum for consumers. We are currently deploying this type of application for a client with specific requirements in how to display the date in the consumer interface. For many of our web applications, we leverage client utilities (YUI, […]
User Acceptance and Enterprise Content Management
In reviewing implementations of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems, one typical issue raised is how to balance the need to achieve User Acceptance of the system with IT goals in regards to reduced development and support. Too often, instead of a balance, the discussion can lead to an either or with Custom Development on one […]
Documentum Scanning – Trying TWAIN and other approaches
As we have talked about in other posts, sometimes Documentum users can get stuck in a word association game in regards to adding capabilities to Documentum. Going off the Documentum product pricing sheet revels some common responses: Workflow -> BPM Migration -> Buldoser PDF Overlays -> PDF Aqua or new PDF Stamping Services Annotation -> […]
Documentum Compliance Manager (DCM) 6.5 Upgrade Thoughts
Many Documentum Compliance Manager (DCM) 5.3 users are reaching a decision point on upgrading to DCM 6.5. The typical driver is primary support for DCM 5.3 expired on 12/31/2009 while DCM 6.5 will be supported until 08/31/2012. Typically DCM is used by companies operating in regulated industries (ex: pharmaceutical manufacturing) to meet regulatory requirements around […]
Documentum, Document Control and Alfresco
I was talking to a Life Sciences client that was looking to move away from Documentum for Document Control and they were asking the logical question “Why haven’t more companies moved to Alfresco and Open Source?” For this post, I will try to address some of the reasons as well as present some background on […]
Documentum WebPublisher and Alfresco WCM
With Documentum announcing a relationship with Fatwire and that they will no longer invest in WDK (and WebPublisher solutions), many Documentum WebPublisher clients have looked at FatWire as well as Alfresco Web Publishing as an alternative to WebPublisher. This post will compare WebPublisher to Alfresco to give users a deeper understanding of both tools. Background […]
Documentum and Alfresco – Document Creation and Import
Document creation is a function of every document management system. You have to have a way of getting content into that content management system – otherwise your system isn’t managing much of anything! Products and Interfaces Documentum has numerous products that provide creation and import functionality. Webtop is the most common. But other options include InputAccel, DCM, […]
Flex Applications and Security Constraints
To give an update on the Active Wizard Enhancements we were working on last month, we recently finished up all development and testing of the Flex-based checkin/checkout interface against Documentum. We delivered to our client this week, but I wanted to share some of the challenges we ran into, specifically related to running an application using Flash.
TSG Products Earn 'Designed for EMC' Application Accreditation
Two of TSG’s open source products have once again earned the ‘Designed for EMC’ Application accreditation. This accreditation demonstrates that HPI (High Performance Interface) and Active Wizard have successfully met a comprehensive set of criteria for good design and quality integration with Documentum. View HPI and Active Wizard in the EMC solution gallery. Available free as open […]
Alfresco Consulting – Documentum Disruptor #2
We posted an article last week on how Alfresco and SharePoint were Disrupting Documentum. The term disruptor is from the Innovators Dilemma business book and it relates to how difficult it is for one company to continue technology innovation over time and newcomers disrupt the industry. In a phone discussion with one of the responders, […]
Documentum and SharePoint – Key differences for document control applications
We have recently begun working with a couple of clients on potential migration efforts from Documentum to SharePoint for their document control applications. In preparing for these efforts, we are in the process of upgrading OpenContent, OpenMigrate and even parts of HPI to run on either SharePoint or Documentum. For this post, we thought it […]
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. […]
Documentum Upgrades
Using our proprietary upgrade methodology, TSG helps clients develop the best upgrade strategy for their OpenText Documentum installation. TSG typically shares different upgrade options and scenarios based on our experience and best practices that can include: Weighing the pros and cons of different strategies to upgrade not only core infrastructure but also your integrated applications. […]
Thin Client Annotation tool uses Google Web Toolkit
TSG has started developing using the Google Web Toolkit. We are currently developing our Annotation Thin-Client using the GWT and Flex.
Documentum Open Source Software
In talking with a new client last week, the client asked “Why do you do Open Source software for Documentum, a commercial software package?” As the only long-term Documentum partner to offer all of our software as Open Source, we get that question often. I thought I would use this entry to explain our strategy […]
TSG HPI Alfresco Webinar Registration
“How to Gain High Performance from a Simplified ECM Search Interface” On September 1, 2009, we will be co-hosting a webinar with Alfresco. We will be discussing our approach to address common search interface issues and how our simplified search solution, HPI, will help better realize the value of your Alfresco system. Sign up for the […]
Documentum – EMC World 2015 – What’s New, What’s Next: Documentum Platform Roadmap – Patrick Walsh
One of the most heavily attended sessions is always the roadmap presentations. It is a packed room (could have used a bigger room – probably 120 folks with 30 standing) right after lunch and before Rohit’s keynote. This post will present our quick review of the roadmap with some thoughts on how it compares to […]