Comments on: EMC World 2009: EMC Documentum CenterStage – The New Standard for Extended Enterprise Collaboration

By: Documentum has a Vision Again, How About Execution? « Word of Pie

Documentum has a Vision Again, How About Execution? « Word of Pie — Mon, 16 May 2011 23:11:58 +0000

[...] ago, we were told that a mobile client for EMC was coming in the Q3/Q4 timeframe as part of the CenterStage 1.1 release. Now the current plan is to have a Mobile client, iPad first, in Q3 of 2011. The joke was [...]

By: CenterStage, the Latest ex-Collaboration Tool from EMC « Word of Pie

CenterStage, the Latest ex-Collaboration Tool from EMC « Word of Pie — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:55:24 +0000

[...] Really? Where have I heard that before? [...]

By: ken

ken — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:43:48 +0000

creating a Jive plugin into Documentum has worked out pretty well for us.
our next move is looking into Custom Types and seeing how that integrates with Documentum.

By: Pie

Pie — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:33:22 +0000

It is a gray area. There is no inbox, but workflows can be initiated so some degree. At the time I hadn’t been to the PAF and didn’t understand the true depth. That section of my notes was strictly slide copy. I’ve added a note to look down in the comments.

The gray doesn’t remove the fact that you are correct. Expect to see a full post on this point shortly.

As for Jive, hmmmm, EMC buying Jive would surprise me less than Open Text buying another company, any company.

By: Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:13:10 +0000

The bullet point showing workflows is incorrect. Considering there is no true task inbox, there can't be workflows in the traditional Documentum sense. It absolutely kills me that this has been left out. (Yeah, I'm going to complain about it until it's in the product.) How can a collaboration product not have a collaborative workflow and a collaborative task inbox. It's collaboratively ridiculous! I'm going out of my collaborative mind! Collaborate collaborate collaborate. There, that's out of my system. The release schedule was disappointing. I know the release dates being announced from here on out are more realistic (see Marc Lewis keynote), that said - it's still a year from the first announced GA date. The features I want aren't going to be there until 1.5. I hate to say it... I really hate to say it, but with IDS (the newly renamed SCS) and Web Publisher, I can just buy Jive SBS or Jive Express and get 90% of the CenterStage Pro 1.5 feature set NOW without waiting a year. Could EMC save me some time and money by just buying Jive Software?

By: Pie

Pie — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:00:20 +0000

I’m with you with the wiki feature thing. I view this as an issue as people won’t look deeper to see the ECM benefits under CenterStage v SharePoint.

They are doing some new stuff for UCF that will help, but not like Alfresco. That also isn’t CenterStage specific.

By: ukdavo

ukdavo — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:53:41 +0000

Wikis, RSS & tagging in the Pro version? They should be basic collaboration features – you previously tweeted as much re wikis.

Is there any integration with MS Office? If DCTM did an ‘Alfresco’ and implemented the SharePoint protocol now that would be cool – the ability to publish lists/data tables, Excel charts, integrate with Outlook, etc. Maybe this kind of advanced functionality should go into the Pro version.