Building upon our OpenAnnotate-ADF integration post from last week, TSG has added OpenRedact as an additional viewer option to Alfresco’s Application Development Framework. OpenRedact is a companion product to OpenAnnotate and is a browser based tool that offers manual and suggestion based redaction. This post will describe the additional features that OpenRedact brings to Alfresco ADF applications with a short video. ... [Continue Reading]
Microsoft Azure HDInsight for ECM on Hadoop
As we have posted in the past, Amazon's Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure offering has been a very attractive option for companies looking to outsource some, or all, of their infrastructure. Microsoft, while a little late to the market, has put together a comparable suite of tools to Amazon's AWS offerings, including a very robust Hadoop as a managed service. This post is going to outline how cloud providers like Azure's HDInsight service have matured into an offering that should be ... [Continue Reading]
Do More with Your Alfresco Deployment with HPI – Configuring Search
One of the first questions for any Alfresco implementation is: "how will users search and access documents?". As longtime readers of the TSG blog will know, we typically recommend against the user "I just was a Google Search" approach. Most of our clients want to target certain document types/scenarios and search on key attributes to find content. This post will discuss how TSG's High Performance Interface (HPI) gives clients an easy way to configure powerful searches against documents that ... [Continue Reading]
Workshare Compare for More Efficient Review and Approval of Document Changes
We have recently been working with multiple clients that have streamlined their review and approval process to increase throughput and decrease turnaround time. One key process improvement is allowing for quick and simple annotations during the review cycle. TSG's OpenAnnotate provides for quick, browser based annotations and now includes Workshare Compare integration as well. This post will present how OpenAnnotate combined with Workshare Compare can be used to further streamline the process ... [Continue Reading]
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 by managing their documents with Hadoop. On major advantage of Hadoop versus traditional vendors is the ability to add attributes "on ... [Continue Reading]
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 Adlib can be leveraged with Solr/Lucene behind TSG’s OpenContent layer to provide robust ECM capabilities for your Hadoop repository. ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop – Disrupting the Relational Database Component of ECM
We had a good conversation yesterday with a long-time and innovative TSG client. The client has a mix of technical and business skills that make him a visionary in a highly regulated industry in regards to Enterprise Content Management. In addition to our normal catch-up discussions about plans for the year and what are we seeing other clients do, we also talked about Hadoop and how it could disrupt traditional Relational Databases (RDBMS). This post will present highlights of that discussion ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop – OpenContent/HPI Product Plans
The first step in supporting all of the TSG products on Hadoop is building our OpenContent REST Web Services layer to access Hadoop in the same manner we access Documentum, Alfresco and other content management systems. This post will present our plans and timelines for OpenContent along with associated TSG solutions. ... [Continue Reading]
Hadoop – Data Model for ECM applications
As we have talked to clients about Hadoop with HBase for ECM, too often we hear “but isn't that just for big data?” This post will try to explain the benefits of Hadoop’s big data capabilities and data model in an ECM context compared to traditional database systems. ... [Continue Reading]
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 a publishing architecture and explain some of the benefits. ... [Continue Reading]
Enhancing Alfresco Digital Asset Management Capabilities – Upcoming Media Management Module
Over the past several years, TSG has had the opportunity to work with great clients such as the NY Philharmonic, Canadian Museum of Human Rights, American Society of Clinical Pathology, and others implementing Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions using the Alfresco Platform. For those of you at Alfresco Summit this year, Ray Gauss, Alfresco's Digital Asset Management architect, laid out the groundwork for the upcoming Media Management Module, due out Q1 of next year. The release of the ... [Continue Reading]
HPI Edit Online – Save directly into Documentum or Alfresco Repository from Microsoft Word
We often hear from our clients that the process of changing a document requires too many steps. TSG has added a new feature to the HPI product that allows users to seamlessly edit their documents in one simple step. ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum & Alfresco Migration Strategies – What Factors Should be Considered?
As we’ve mentioned in a previous blog post, we often meet with potential clients who are interested in using OpenMigrate to meet a migration need but they haven’t yet identified specific migration requirements beyond the need to move documents from one location to another. It is important to identify requirements and an overall migration strategy as early as possible as migrations provide a great opportunity to “clean up” content management systems. This “cleansing” can be through object model ... [Continue Reading]
Technology Services Group, Inc. Named Alfresco Platinum Partner
We are excited to announce that TSG has been recognized a Platinum Alfresco partner! Below is the official announcement: Chicago, IL – January 17, 2013 - Technology Services Group (TSG), a leading provider of products and services that extend enterprise content management (ECM) platforms, today announced that Alfresco, the open source platform for content management, has granted it Platinum partner status. This announcement came following TSG’s significant year of growth in sales and new ... [Continue Reading]
Alfresco Chicago User Group Meeting Recap
Technology Services Group held the first Alfresco User Group Meeting last Thursday at out offices. Thanks to those that attended. It was great to see others in the Chicago area that are passionate and excited about the Alfresco platform and the possibilities it provides. The meeting provided a more casual way to interact with fellow Alfrescans, over pizza and beer of course! A special thanks to Jeff Potts for making the trip to help kick things off. Jeff provided a great overview of the Alfresco ... [Continue Reading]
Documentum Upgrade – High Volume Server – A Basic Understanding
Documentum High Volume Server (HVS) is a new product designed to cut database space usage in Documentum 6.5 by a third or even up to one half depending on the type of content. Given the significantly reduced database size, overall performance should increase. This year TSG evaluated HVS for a client as part of a Documentum Upgrade. (See other thoughts in our Documentum Upgrade Planning Guide ) HVS – When to use it Basically, HVS was developed to efficiently store non-changing static or ... [Continue Reading]
TSG HPI Search Alfresco Webinar
TSG and Alfresco co-hosted another successful webinar discussing the simplication of search on ECM platforms using our HPI Search Interface. HPI Search is a great way for consumers to find content quickly in a streamlined search interface that is easy to use and configurable. HPI Search Interface on Alfresco utilizes our OpenContent web services using CMIS to interface w/ Alfresco. To review the recording of the webinar click here. For more information, access our datasheet or visit our ... [Continue Reading]
