Who would have thunk that these two ECM giants would be under the same roof? OpenText is obviously paying a premium for Documentum for its clients and solution services. The dashboard level of this deal must look excellent, however the details of the next 5 years of execution will be interesting. The media’s favorite go to pundit for reactions to Documentum events, John Newton (cofounder of Documentum), says “the product lines will wither away” amid neglect from OpenText in favor of their own ECM solutions. This sounds about right, but maybe OpenText has higher goals beyond the software and solutions, toward the content and process. It’s not about loyalty. I’m not sure either platform will supersede the other.

Lloyd Lim will share with you his knowledge and experience in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Implementations in the areas of Business Model Analysis, Information. As organziations execute their ECM strategies, they are finding that they are implememting multiple ECM solutions. Typically, we are seeing that SharePoint being.

For years EMC threw in Documentum as a bonus to its storage solutions. What does this mean? Well, at the metadata architecture and storage level it means that not only OOTB applications, but custom apps and integrations are dependent on the storage addresses. This will be no small feat to migrate to OpenText. I believe Documentum was slowly sinking into EMC’s storage hole anyways. My experience migrating AppExtender files to OnBase is a good example: the content was in blobs with links for Cerner to them.

We had to leave the links in place and move the underlying content pointers. We lucked out with this approach, but it left me wondering how other companies deal with a more comprehensive migration.

Older, Large Documentum installs. Program Sport Psychology For Coaches Ebook more. At a pharma company, I worked on upgrading OpenText for a year and the project was postponed because our upgrade process was not complete and it still took too long to fit into the downtime outage window. This type of story sometimes happens with all large software installs, however the amount of kludgy patches that had to be applied during the upgrade was disconcerting. The steps of the upgrade for both the code base as well as the database changes were way more complicated than other packages. This software upgrade process can make you understand why some CTOs do not advocate upgrading anything unless it is faltering.

Most Documentum installs have some or extensive customizations based on the WDK and DFC development. These APIs were excellent at the time. Over time, methods get deprecated and maintenance gets more expensive. Then, after a few years, you have upgrade. This can be a daunting process, even when it’s you who knows the software inside and out. Finding documentation which is specific to the development and changes is probably buried inside the code.

This means you have to understand the older and newer APIs. Adding a migration to OpenText on top of this is a nightmare. Content is King. Just because companies have cheaper storage hardware and more computing power it doesn’t mean they have to spend their savings on Big Data solutions.

Most IT shops know their content better than their CIO thinks they do, plus it’s sexy to boast of a Big Data search engine applying algorithms to discover more revenue opportunities. For example, finding potential ICD10 billable work in doctor’s notes at a hospital.

But, aren't most Big Data solutions masking poor information management of the past? Is it really trying to help create better tools and quality control for potential negligent information processing? In CIO (March 16, 2016) “Is Enterprise content management becoming obsolete and irrelevant?” article, Mitch De Felice builds on the common lament of AI and Big Data marketing that most data is unstructured.

Unstructured by whose definition? I’ve seem search algorithms be applied to very structure databases to mine for gold. Some algorithms are benevolent, others are malignant. Some search for patterns and breakthroughs, others for revenue opportunities.

Mitch says, “ECM vendors need to shift their view from data storage to knowledge management.” This has been happening for 30 years. It’s not easy to squeeze knowledge out of “just good enough” data entry. ECM vendors have from day one been offering workflow, indexing, relationships between content and metadata, etc. It’s more fruitful to why “knowledge workers” continue to drag their feet and purchase only the bare minimum of ECM modules. Inevitably, multiple waves of information management process overhaul will happen. These waves will force much more structure underneath the software tools. Big Data is the option now because most companies are stuck with poor information QC on top of applications that are expensive and difficult to change quickly, let alone retraining Users to provide more knowledge.