Enterprise content management

ECM Cost Optimization & ROI: How to maximize your M-Files project

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) projects often start with good intentions: reducing chaos, improving compliance, and streamlining processes.Yet many companies underestimate one crucial aspect: the financial impact. The project is often driven solely by the cost of licenses and implementation, such(…)

Dctm – Managing licenses through OTDS

As you might know, since Documentum 24.4, there is a new requirement to have a valid license assigned to a user in order to log in to Documentum. This is a pretty important change, most likely designed with the X-Plan(…)

Thoughts on the M-Files GKO 2026 in Lisbon

My colleague, David Hueber, and I had the pleasure of attending the M-Files Global Kick-Off 2026 (GKO 2026) in Lisbon, Portugal, this week. The weather was unfortunate, but that’s not what matters. From January 26(…)

Stop Asking, Start Knowing with M-Files

If your team keeps asking: “What’s the status of that project?” “Where is this document?” “Is it approved?” You don’t have a people problem, you have an information problem! No one likes to ask their colleagues these questions, and(…)

Dctm – Incorrect r_object_id reference in OTDS

I recently faced another pretty interesting case with an incorrect r_object_id reference in OTDS. In a non-production (dev) Active Directory (Azure EntraID) that is used as source of truth for the users/groups, it looked like there was an account which(…)

Dctm – MFA & non-MFA within OTDS based on target Applications

In OpenText Directory Services (OTDS), you have multiple ways to handle two-factor authentication (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA). As a quick reminder, 2FA is simply the fact that you need to prove your identity in 2 different ways (e.g. a(…)

M-Files Sharing Center: Improved collaboration

As I’ve said many times, I like M-Files because each monthly release not only fixes bugs, but also introduces new features. This time (December 2025), they worked on the sharing feature.It’s not entirely new, as it(…)

Avoiding common ECM pitfalls with M-Files

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems promise efficiency, compliance, and better collaboration.Many organizations struggle to realize these benefits because of common pitfalls in traditional ECM implementations. Let’s explore these challenges and see how M-Files addresses them with(…)

Dctm – OTDS SSO with sAMAccountName AD/LDAP attribute and Azure

The OpenText Directory Services (OTDS) is a pretty interesting piece of software, and it works quite well out-of-the-box. If you are starting to use the OTDS from scratch (when you have nothing internally), then there isn’t much problem, you can(…)

Dctm – D2 SSO through OTDS fails with DM_LICENSE_E_INVALID_LICENSE

After doing some more upgrades from Documentum 20.2 to 23.4, including D2, I faced a funny error about invalid licenses (DM_LICENSE_E_INVALID_LICENSE) while trying to login to D2 through OTDS SSO. That’s interesting because there is no license management for Documentum(…)