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Mobile Development Environments – Alfresco, Documentum and SharePoint

As part of our effort to develop our mobile offerings for HPI and other applications, we took a detailed look at a number of different frameworks during our TSG sponsored Hack Day.  This post will present our findings. Native versus Web Applications One of the major decisions for development was whether to go with a […]

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.

Documentum Mobile Approval – Screencam and Demo Published

As we discussed in a previous post on mobile and third party approval, TSG is currently in the development process for our mobile approval interface for the Active Wizard.  One of the early deliverables of the effort is a standalone demonstration of inbox/approve/reject functionality working on a variety of mobile platforms.  A screencam of the […]

Documentum Migration to Alfresco – Making one small mobile/cloud step first

Having already addressed here Why Clients are migrating from Documentum to Alfresco, the major issue most long-time clients have with moving from Documentum to Alfresco is how to take that first step.  Legacy Documentum users often have terabytes of documents stored in Documentum and contemplating a move to any platform would be costly and resource […]

Documentum, Mobile and the Cloud for Third Party and Remote Approval

TSG has successfully implemented multiple solutions for third party/remote approval for different Documentum customers.  In each case, the solution focused on bringing outside approvers into the client’s Documentum environment.  Based on discussions with several customers, TSG is beginning to develop a new solution to address several different business issues and take advantage of additional technical […]

Documentum and Alfresco – Mobile Camera App for Case Management

Currently many clients import photos into their case management systems by transferring digital images via a USB connection to a computer and then uploading them through a traditional content management client application.  This post will discuss how to enable clients to leverage smartphones for a better experience.

TSG Labs: Mobile Capture for Documentum, Alfresco and Hadoop

In this installment of TSG Labs, we wanted to demonstrate one of our new tools around mobile capture.  One of our clients utilized the application as part of an internal hackathon, and it was very well received.  Some key points about the application:

Mobile Document Ingestion for ECM

Check out this short demo to see how we can use a mobile browser to upload existing and new photos into an ECM repository.

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.

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 Client Briefing – Follow-up thoughts

Thanks to all the attendees (a record) at our TSG Client Briefing last week at the University of Chicago Gleacher center.  Many of the attendees mentioned it was the best one yet.  This post will share some of the discussions.

Enterprise Content Management Predictions – 2015

This post will give some thoughts in regards to the futures of ECM and what we would expect in 2015.  In looking back, we neglected to do a predictions last year.  See our post detailing our 2013 predictions for Documentum.  This post will compare our thoughts and predictions in the past for the previous two […]

Documentum – EMC World – Momentum 2012 – Early Predictions

Once again TSG is attending EMC World in Las Vegas – May 21-24.  For those interested, early discounts are still available at http://www.emcworld.com/momentum.htm.  While not much is known at this point in time about the final agenda list (or who the opening/closing acts are), this post will try to take a guess at the dominant […]

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/Momentum 2012 – TSG Recap

Thanks to all subscribers for making this one of our most successful weeks with the blog.  We always get lots of feedback that our take on announcements and learning sessions at EMC World/Momentum is our most popular topic.  Also, it was great making new friends face to face who opened with “I really like your […]

Documentum Migration to Alfresco – Buy or Subscribe and business value

I had a good conversation with a CIO friend of mine last week regarding his recent mobile framework purchasing decision.  In purchasing a mobile framework, the CIO and his team decided, given the immaturity of mobile frameworks, to only buy a 3 year subscription.  Their thinking was that after three years and more maturity within […]

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, […]

Predictions for EMC Documentum in 2013

EMC made many significant announcements in 2012 (D2, xCP, D7) that has impacted their user base.  Now that the dust has settled, we are making the following predictions as we look forward into 2013:

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 […]

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 […]

Claims Documentation – Modernizing Insurance Platforms Conference in Hartford CT

Due to the success of the insurance event we held in Chicago in May, TSG is partnering with Alfresco to take our presentation on the road. What better place than the “Insurance Capital of the World,” – Hartford, Connecticut! Regardless of industry, TSG has always found that our clients are most successful when they work […]

Claims Documentation – Modernizing Insurance Platforms

TSG is partnering with Alfresco and Claimwire to host a morning event on May 4th entitled Modern Insurance Platforms for Claim Documentation.  Compared to our first 15 years of our ECM practice when Life Sciences and other compliance applications like manufacturing and plant operations drove most of the innovation in the ECM space, we have […]

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 […]

OpenContent Case

Making Content Work – Configurable Content Organization to Streamline Business OpenContent Case provides a no code configurable, stream-lined, interface to efficiently view and interact with a set of related documents from a variety of different repositories including Alfresco, Documentum, AWS/DynamoDB, Azure/HDInsight, Solr, HBase/Hadoop or Google/BigTable. Simplifying the User Experience To many document repositories are built […]

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.

Documentum – EMC World 2013 – Momentum – Early Predictions

On May 6th through May 9th, EMC World and the smaller component for Documentum/IIG (Momentum) will kick off in Las Vegas again at the Venetian.  TSG has attended all the U.S. Momentum’s since the 1996 inaugural event in Miami.  Once the agenda is published, we like to post our predictions on what attendees will see compared […]

Documentum Searching – D2, Webtop, HPI, and xCP

As we have mentioned on this site multiple times, performance and ease of use in regards to searching is one of the most frequent concerns as it relates to use of Documentum.   During our review of D2, we thought it would make an interesting blog post as well as video to compare searching across the […]

Alfresco DevCon Wrap Up

DevCon wrapped up at the end of October in sunny San Diego.   Conferences are always a great way to get “re-energized”, meeting new users to the Alfresco platform, spending time with existing clients, and getting excited about where the Alfresco platform is headed.  This post will discuss the roadmap and other thoughts from the conference.

Box and ECM – 9 market reasons Box will never be a serious ECM alternative

Last month we wrote about our thoughts on Gartner’s ECM Magic Quadrant for ECM.  For the Gartner post, we were surprised that Box, while not included in the overall evaluation of ECM vendors, had a considerable note for small to midsized companies as well as a reference in the IBM review as a strength of […]

Day 1 – EMC World 2011 – Afternoon Sessions – Architecture and Product Roadmap

Attended three good sessions this afternoon.  First one was EMC Documentum Architecture Overview – Part 1 by Jeroen van Rotterdam, Second was Rick Devenuti Keynote – last presentation was John McCormick “What’s Next” Product Roadmap.  This post will try to summarize the three presentations with some thoughts on the overall product direction.

ECM Cloud Futures – Why IAAS is more important that SAAS

Dave Giordano, President and Founder of TSG, presented last week at the Document Strategy form and is a frequent contributor to their content.  The following is a re-publish of his latest article covering the role of IAAS for ECM versus SAAS. Read the original post here.

Documentum Email Integration – A Simple Approach

We have posted recently about a variety of email solutions including leveraging IMAP as well as issues with drag and drop functionality leveraging MyDocumentum for Outlook or Webtop.  This post will review the use of the “forward” button to provide an email client neutral approach for ingesting emails into Documentum.

OpenContent Search

Finding Value in Content – Configurable Search Interface to Make Content Accessible OpenContent Search provides a no code configurable interface to find and retrieve documents from a variety of different repositories including Alfresco, Documentum, AWS/DynamoDB, Azure/HDInsight, Solr, HBase/Hadoop or Google/BigTable. Simplifying the User Experience To many document repositories are built for complex “do all” document […]

Alfresco Claims Processing – Product Roadmap and Future Vision

Last week, TSG conducted a product briefing for some select clients.  One of our large Alfresco claim processing clients, currently leveraging the TSG Policy and Claim solution for Alfresco, Documentum or Hadoop, was an active participant and brainstormed on their current and future needs.  This post will highlight those conversations and vision as well as […]