Back in July, we wrote a lessons learned post regarding upgrading from Documentum 6.5 to Documentum 6.7. We have a client that recently completed, by himself, a Documentum upgrade from 6.5 SP3 to 6.7 SP1. While TSG often assists clients in the Documentum upgrade process, some clients are very capable of performing upgrades on their own if they chose a simple approach. This post will share some of the client’s thoughts on the upgrade and how the combination of TSG products as well as good knowledge of his environment made the upgrade relatively painless. The only issue the client had was due to some bad documentation in regards to the xPlore upgrade that will be shared as well.
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Documentum Upgrade to 6.7 – a simple approach
Published November 29, 2012 Content Server , D2 , D6.5 , D6.7 , Documentum , Upgrades , Webtop , xCP , xPlore 2 CommentsDocumentum 6.5 to 6.7 Upgrade Lessons Learned
Published July 27, 2012 Content Server , D6.5 , D6.7 , Documentum , DTS , HPI , RPS , Search , Upgrades , Webtop , xPlore 5 CommentsTSG recently assisted a client with upgrading their Documentum 6.5 environment to 6.7. Products included Content Server, xPlore, Business Process Manager (BPM), Content Transformation Services (ADTS, AVTS, MTS), DA, Webtop, Records Manager, Retention Policy Services (RPS), Archive Services for Reports (ASR), and TaskSpace. The client also runs TSG’s High Performance Interface (HPI) and OpenContent products. Continue reading ‘Documentum 6.5 to 6.7 Upgrade Lessons Learned’
Documentum Performance – Search, Retrieval and Inbox
Published May 9, 2012 D2 , Documentum , HPI , Lucene , Search , Webtop , xCP , xPlore 6 CommentsI was talking to a client last week that was struggling with their Documentum system performance. This client had recently brought in Documentum Consulting, and having been unsuccessful in improving performance, was concerned that there might be nothing left to do. This post will focus on innovative things TSG has done for clients in regards to Documentum performance that are probably outside of the norm of typical database/server tuning particularly focused on Search, Document Retrieval and Inbox viewing.
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Documentum xPlore Deployment – Lessons Learned from Pharma Implementaion
Published March 27, 2012 Content Server , Documentum , Search , Upgrades , Webtop , xPlore 8 CommentsWe’re working with a large Pharmaceutical company to install Documentum xPlore as a replacement for FAST. We’ve just finished the QA environment deployment, and we’re planning for the Production deployment in mid-April. For this post, we are going to discuss the cutover strategy as well as some lessons learned from the project.
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Documentum Webtop 5.3 running on Documentum Content Server 6.x
Published March 15, 2012 D2 , D6 , D6.5 , D6.7 , Documentum , Webtop , xCP , xPlore 1 CommentWe stumbled across a pretty vague reference in the cross-product dependency guide for Documentum 6.7 SP1 (on page 245) for Webtop (emphasis ours)
“Note: Documentum Collaborative Services 5.3 DAR is installed with Content Server 6.7 SP1 repository so Webtop 5.3 & 5.3 SPx will work with Content Server 6.7 SP1. If Documentum Collaborative Services (formerly Documentum Collaborative Edition) 6.7 SP1 DAR is installed with Content Server 6.7 SP1 repository, Webtop 6.7 SP1 is required.” Continue reading ‘Documentum Webtop 5.3 running on Documentum Content Server 6.x’
Documentum Alternatives and Disruptors – Alfresco or SharePoint?
Published August 12, 2011 Alfresco , Documentum , FileNet , Google Docs , Migrations , SharePoint , Webtop , xPlore 8 CommentsI was at a Documentum client this week that is reviewing their ECM strategy as part of planning for 2012 and 2013. Given a somewhat difficult relationship with EMC due to a contentious software audit, the client wanted to review alternatives and consider a Documentum migration to a new ECM system as an alternative to the Documentum upgrade. For this post I will share some of the discussion of Documentum Alternatives as well as thoughts on ECM disruptors, Alfresco and SharePoint.
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EMC World – 2011 – Day Three – ECM Strategy and Roadmap – 2011/2012 – Mark Arbour – Head of Product Management – ECM Applications
Published May 11, 2011 CenterStage , D6.5 , Documentum , MyDocumentum , REST API , Search , Webtop , xCP , xPlore 2 CommentsAttended another roadmap session focused on next 18 months. This post will try to summarize and present TSG thoughts.
Documentum/Momentum EMC World Prep
Published April 18, 2011 CenterStage , Documentum , ECM Landscape , Lucene , MyDocumentum , Search , SharePoint , TSG , xCP , xPlore 3 CommentsThe agenda for Momentum, the Documentum portion of EMC World, has recently been posted (http://www.emcworld.com/images/Momentum_2011_Agenda-master4webpage.pdf). For this post, we thought we would highlight things we (TSG) or our typical clients attend. Overall, EMC has divided the sessions into “tracks” focused on Architecture/Best Practices, ECM, Software Developer, Information Governance, Case Management, User Group, Capture and Labs. Continue reading ‘Documentum/Momentum EMC World Prep’
Enterprise Search – Content Management Thoughts
Published March 17, 2011 Documentum , Lucene , SharePoint , xPlore Leave a CommentMany clients are struggling with the concept of Enterprise Search. While the last post discussed ways to improve search results, this post will discuss thoughts and experience with a recent client focused on Enterprise Search.
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Documentum Search – How to get around the user request of “I just want a search like Google”
Published February 22, 2011 D6 , D6.5 , Documentum , ECM Landscape , Search , Webtop , xCP , xPlore 5 CommentsOften times Documentum users, frustrated with Webtop Search or Advanced Search will request “Can we just have a Google Search?”. This post will provide input to Documentum developers on how to best address this ongoing request. While this post is specifically focused on Documentum developers, lessons learned about interface design apply to our Alfresco and SharePoint readers as well.
