Monthly Archives: April, 2010
F5 for High Availability Solution
Tweethttp://www.f5.com/solutions/applications/ibm/filenet-p8/ Adding F5 on farm or clustered environment provides high available environment. With 4.5 CE on application server it is important to have load balance for all application engine nodes. You can add F5 before CE for high available vertical and horizontal scaling solution. Also F5 can be added before application engine for your web [...]
Universal Content Migration
Tweethttp://www.hcltech.com/pdf/ETS/UCM_service-offerings.pdf HCLT created framework that migrates data from one ECM repository to another. This includes IBM P8 Migration. Interesting to see how this handles 3.5 to 4.5 migration. 3.5 to 4.5 Migration can be done in two ways Upgrade the current 3.5 to 4.5 Migrate to new 4.5 system system. Typically migration in financial institution [...]
Brava 6.2 for IBM Filenet P8
Tweethttp://www.infograph.com/press/IBMFileNetP8-6.2.htm Integration of Brava enterise product with IBM P8 suite. Key feature includes bi-directional stamp that pull metadata from P8 content engine. Share on Facebook Send article as PDF
High Speed Document Viewer
Tweethttp://www.snowbound.com/VirtualViewer/vieweroverview.html Snowbound recently released virtual viewer that needs no client installation and can be implemented as Ajax based viewer solution Current OOTB deeja viewer is applet based solution and depends upon the client browser for performance. This solution can be implemented as light weight web 2.0 solution. Share on Facebook Send article as PDF [...]
FileNet Content Engine (CE) cooperative locks
Tweethttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0910filenetp8api/ Very nice article from IBM how to use cooperative locks. The basic idea is to use the lock() method on Document, Folder or Custom Object. This makes sure at enterprise level that no two user update the object value at the same time. Can be used as alternate for orcale sequence approach. Share on [...]
Flex Based UI
Tweethttp://www.p8paperwork.com/index.html If you are looking for rich UI for P8 application the above link solves the problem. Not only paperwork has the rich Adobe Flex based UI but provides framework to create Ajax based application. Current OOTB Workplace UI is based on XML/XSL based rendering and you must know IBM Filenet WAT framework to build [...]
More P8 Migration Stuff
TweetFollowing is a nice article on 4.5.x migration http://www.rscompass.net/p8/migrating-to-filenet-p8-45.html Using CFS-IS Content federated service is common if you have IS as your image repository. You should add the new content in CE filestore and refer old content via CFS-IS. However long term goal is to move all the content to CE filestore from IS. Start [...]
Implementing Case Management
TweetFollowing article from IBM details how to build case management solution http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1001filenetp8casemanagement/index.html?ca=drs- The solution mostly relies on folder creation and storing all case content in case folder. Case folder is also used as collaboration with BPM process. This can be very useful implementation when using the insurance and energy utility process. However if you have [...]
P8 OLAP Reports
TweetIf you are designing your solution on PA OLAP cubes and want custom reporting instead of OOTB excel reports following are the options. PA OLAP reports are on SQL OLAP services. You will need a OLEDB OLAP client or IIS http pump to read the data out. I have seen the reports working on crystal [...]
IBM P8 Cloud
TweetNot able to find any solution based on IBM P8 cloud. IBM has collaborated with Amazon EC2 providing cloud computing environment. However IBM Filenet P8 is not in the list http://aws.amazon.com/ibm/ Share on Facebook Send article as PDF
