The core Documentum suite is constantly being improved by EMC to add additional functionality, performance and reliability. Eventually older versions become unsupported, and to take advantage of new functionality and maintain EMC support, an upgrade to a current release should be performed.
Clients engaging Beach Street's Documentum Upgrade Services realize the following benefits:
- Mitigation of risk in performing a major version upgrade
- Minimizing downtime for the production environment
- Rapid completion of the upgrade, which greatly reduces overall upgrade cost
- Beach Street's experience and practice knowledge gives our clients domain expertise over the entire Documentum product suite
Beach Street thinks strategically and acts tactically to provide rapid solutions to real business challenges. With our proven approach and experience working with our clients, we minimize the time to value involved in the implementation of a Documentum Upgrade.
To learn how we have successfully partnered with our clients to efficiently complete Documentum upgrades and how we can help your company, contact us.
When considering an upgrade with Documentum, companies face the following challenges:
- Client staff may not have experience with upgrading the Documentum platform and may not have experience with the latest versions
- Upgrades need to be executed carefully to ensure that there is no downtime in the production environment
- The underlying hardware and software environment must be assessed
- Clients have widely differing product combinations and need help from resources who have an understanding of all of these to upgrade successfully
Beach Street removes the risk from the upgrade process and rapidly provides an upgraded Documentum environment.
The Streetwise™ approach for Documentum Upgrades contains the following high-level steps:
- Review current hardware and software environment to determine whether modifications are required
- Review any customizations and determine whether they need to be ported to the upgraded environment
- Provide a comprehensive Upgrade Plan
- Support Testing of the upgraded environment and update customizations as required
- Author Upgrade Procedures
- Dry run the upgrade on the Development environment
- Execute the upgrade in production
- Provide post-upgrade support and knowledge transfer
For examples of how our clients have benefited from working with Beach Street's Documentum Upgrade Services team, we hope you'll read through some of our case studies below: