July 21, 2017
AccessECM was recently engaged to develop a plan for migrating a Vignette Collaboration system to a SharePoint Online. In the first part of this series I provided an overview of the overall effort. In Part II we review our findings based on a pilot migration project.Export - Transform - Load (ETL)ETL is a process that gained popularity in the 1970s as the amount of data and the need to warehouse it grew quickly. The process...
June 22, 2017
AccessECM was recently engaged to develop a plan for migrating a Vignette Collaboration system to a SharePoint Online. I had personally used Vignette over 10 years ago, when SharePoint was just coming into the picture, and found it to be very capable. Since then Vignette, like many other legacy ECM vendors, was acquired by OpenText. SharePoint meanwhile, continued to expand and dominate in the traditional ECM space. Our te...
March 1, 2017
It has become fairly commonplace to hear that yet another corporate or government website has been hacked. Despite these news stories, many Sitecore customers fail to secure the most generic entry point into their environment, the client interface. Sitecore strongly recommends limiting access to this interface on every content server to only authorized personnel. In this blog we will review several approaches to accomplishing ...
February 22, 2017
The AccessECM team wants to congratulate QuintilesIMS for being named the winner of the Best Overall Intranet prize in Ragan's 2016 Intranet Awards. We extend a special acknowledgement to the Digital Strategy and SharePoint Tech Teams for their innovation, creativity and hard work.To learn more about QuintilesIMS and this award, select the image below....
February 20, 2017
A customer recently requested that we exclude specific types of files stored in Sitecore Media Library from being indexed by Google Search. We considered three different approaches: Creating a separate download page with captcha that would prevent any non-human user from downloading and hence, indexing the file;Encrypt the files with a password which would be displayed next to the download link link;Adding a special “X-Robots...
