With the recent announcement that the Documentum Developer Edition is being discontinued - Bidding Farewell to Developer Edition, we thought it would be a good time to update our previous post from 2010 in regards to development differences between Documentum and Alfresco. This post will compare and contrast development environments and philosophy with both Alfresco and Documentum.
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Documentum Discontinues Developer Edition – Documentum to Alfresco Migration – Development Environment and Philosophy
Published December 18, 2012 Alfresco , D2 , Documentum , Share , Webtop , xCP 5 CommentsThoughts on the 2012 Alfresco Roadmap
Published June 28, 2012 Alfresco , ECM Landscape , Share Leave a CommentLast 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. Of course, some of the items may be delayed or shift as the year progress.
Check out the brand new TSG Learning Zone
Published March 16, 2012 Alfresco , Share , TSG Leave a CommentTags: Demo, Go-Live, Launch, Video
We are excited to announce and share with you a brand new TSG Learning Zone! We put a great deal of effort into shifting technologies and giving it a clean new look.
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Alfresco Chicago User Group Meeting Recap
Published March 6, 2012 Alfresco , Open Source , Share , TSG Leave a CommentTags: Alfresco, ECM, Meetup, User Group Meeting
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 Community, including the recently announced site, http://addons.alfresco.com, which just came out of beta. Jeff also demoed various community-developed adding on the Alfresco 4 platform, including the JavaScript Console and Google Map integration. Look for TSG to add its open source Alfresco offerings to the site this week.
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Chicago Alfresco User Group Meeting – March 1st
Published February 7, 2012 Alfresco , ECM Landscape , Mobile , Open Source , Share , Social , TSG 1 CommentThanks to all the fellow Alfrescans who attended both the Minneapolis and Chicago Lunch and Learns. Really, the best part of these lunch and learns is the LUNCH! We get to learn how people are leveraging the platform and share best practices and experiences. Alfresco 4.0 Enterprise was released on Thursday to much fanfare, and we are just as excited to continuing developing web, mobile, and cloud-based solutions on Alfresco. Some quick links to some of the case studies and open source offerings on our website:
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Alfresco and Liferay – Lessons Learned from UCP of Greater Chicago
Published January 10, 2012 Alfresco , Liferay , Open Source , Share 2 CommentsTags: Alfresco, DevCon, Liferay
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 the following topics:
- Authentication between Liferay, Alfresco and Adobe Connect
- Communication between Alfresco and Liferay
- Usage of the Liferay SDK
- OpenSearch Integration Continue reading ‘Alfresco and Liferay – Lessons Learned from UCP of Greater Chicago’
Alfresco DevCon Wrap Up
Published November 8, 2011 Alfresco , Amazon EC2 , Cloud Computing , Migrations , Open Source , OpenMigrate , Share , TSG Leave a CommentTags: Alfresco, DevCon 2011, John Newton, San Diego
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.
Alfresco Consulting – Consulting in an Open Source world
Published September 7, 2011 Alfresco , Documentum , FileNet , HPI , Migrations , Open Source , OpenMigrate , Share , SharePoint 1 CommentAt TSG we get questions all the time in regards to “How are your consulting engagements different between Alfresco and other ECM offerings like Documentum, FileNet/IBM and SharePoint.” For this post, we will explore how we have been successful with Alfresco Consulting initiatives and point out some of the differences to commercial ECM consulting.
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OpenAnnotate 2.0 – Annotations in Alfresco Share
Published August 15, 2011 Alfresco , Open Source , OpenAnnotate , Share 4 CommentsTags: Alfresco, annotations, Open Source, Share
TSG is proud to release OpenAnnotate 2.0, our latest iteration of open source annotations. We’ve successfully deployed OpenAnnotate with a number of our Documentum clients to enable simple annotation capabilities on PDF documents, both via TSG’s HPI and Webtop. We’ve now implemented annotation capability within Alfresco Share to allow markup of rendered PDF documents within an Alfresco repository.
Users can access PDF documents and perform the following annotations:
- Sticky Notes
- Lines
- Arrows
- Rectangles
- Ellipses
Users can view annotations created by other users, and are displayed in different colors. We’ve added a simple action within Alfresco Share to expose annotation capabilities. OpenAnnotate can produce read only PDFs with the related annotations, to be viewed by any PDF viewer.
How does it work?
OpenAnnotate was built using HTML and JavaScript along with Spring MVC. The front end utilizes jQuery and Dojo. Dojo provides canvas drawing on all browsers, including IE6 (yes, we still have clients using IE6!) All generated annotations are stored, using the XFDF specification, as an association to the original PDF document by applying a simple aspect.
- Visit our website for additional information on OpenAnnotate.
- Visit our LearningZone to see OpenAnnotate in action.
Please contact us to get OpenAnnotate integrated into your Alfresco repository!
Records Management in Alfresco and Documentum
Published July 28, 2011 Alfresco , Documentum , Records Management , Share 2 CommentsLast month at our client briefing, electronic records management systems were a common point of interest, but interestingly, not a common practice. Even though everyone knew they needed to be smarter about using electronic records management only a few companies had taken the plunge. The others, like many of the companies we talk to every day, are managing records with spreadsheets, paper, and home-grown solutions and databases.
Over the past year, we’ve worked with clients interested in both the Documentum Records Management Family of products (RM, RPS, PRM) and Alfresco RM. (We’ll refer to the Documentum Family as Documentum RM for the rest of the article.)While both are DoD 5015.02 standard compliant, they approach creating the file plan, declaring a record, setting holds/freezes, applying disposition, and reporting differently. Continue reading ‘Records Management in Alfresco and Documentum’
