Enterprise content management

Documentum story – Manual deployment of X DARs on Y docbases

In a previous blog (click here), I presented a common issue that might occur during the installation of some DARs and how to handle that with what Documentum(…)

Documentum story – Management of DARs and unexpected errors

During a recent project at one of our customers, we often saw the message “Unexpected errors occurred while installing DARs”. In our case, this message happened when installing, migrating or upgrading a docbase on an already existing Content Server. We(…)

Documentum story – Build and manage a Documentum Platform

Documentum story. What is behind this story? Normally I should write Documentum Platform story. Indeed dbi services is involved to build and manage a worldwide Documentum Platform. Our part covers all middleware components related to the infrastructure excepting the(…)

Documentum story – D2EventSenderMailMethod when multiple Documentum repositories are used.

When several repositories are accessed through the same Java Method Server (JMS), it might be needed to have a different dfc.properties parameters for the D2EventSenderMailMethod depending on the repository. This can be issued using an external Java call to(…)

Documentum story – HA configuration best practice

We went to a performance issue and some failed failover regarding the content server and the JMS. Thus we asked EMC for recommendations and it seems that the configuration can be slightly different than the official documentation. Here are the(…)

Documentum story – Disable FIPS-140 on a CS 7.2 P05 in order to connect to a 6.7 SP2 repository

In this blog and for a customer’s requirement (Data Migration), I had to temporarily disable the FIPS on a Content Server 7.2 P05 in order to connect to a repository 6.7 SP2. In fact after adding the 6.7 repository to(…)

Alfresco: some useful database queries

In my previous post, I talked about the Lifecycle of Alfresco Nodes. You may have noticed that I tried to insert in my explanations some elements that are specific to(…)

QlikView – Load data in QlikView / QlikSence – Best practice and trick

In this blog, I will give you some best practices and tricks when you are loading table to generate your data. But before, I will review the different ways to load data in a QlikView or QlikSense report. 1.How to(…)

QlikSense – The easy way to create a QlikView report

Today, one of the most used Business Intelligence products is undoubtedly QlikView. This Swedish product is one of the best positioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms matrix and has been for a number of(…)

Birst: an attractive “all-in-one” Business Intelligence solution

The review of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms has revealed a new challenger that could become one of the leader of this market: Birst – an interesting “all-in-one” BI solution.