Hi all, I'm working since a few years with a product, a configuration tools for Documentum. I've never read discussion or documents about this tools. Does anyone already work with D2 from C6 ? Julien.
I know of some of their customers in France. I guess you don't see anything about it here because it's a not a Documentum product and you don;t see much about 3rd party software here, besides the ones that are most commonly used in the world.
I have seen C6 in the past and it is indeed very neat but I don't know to what extents it's becoming an international hit on the market, especially since the EMC solution Group came up wit hthe ECSF framework which seems to be doing quite a lot of similar things (configuration VS customization)...
My 2 cents
Hi,
I've done 2 projects now as a D2 developer/configurator and see also a lot from xCP as 'configuration' tool.The thing that i see is that managers/sales are shouting: "YES, now we can configure it so it's easy now!"But I can tell that you can leave the 'easy' part, because it's even more difficult in my opinion.This is because you have to find all kind of workarounds for functionality that is not supported by default and with developing you go straight for the solution.
So i thing that configuration time is still the same amount of time when you develop/coding it.The time saving thing as customer is when you upgrade to a new version of Documentum/D2.And it also saves a lot of reworking time because you build things almost together with the customer with a lot of demo-sessions/workshops and interact with real screens what a customer wants.This last thing will let you build more functionality in the same time then when you develop functionality.
D2 Specific: When your D2 configuration gets too big you lose the overview and have the reconsider every change you do because it can break functionality anywhere else. So nice to have all those marks in a matrix, but remove a wrong one and a lot of functionality collapses.xCP Specific: Nice to have a lot of tools, but every tool requires its own specialties/roles and they need to work/communicate together (Ever saw communication in big companies?). Also the 'accelerators' part is nice, because this is still customized code only created by third party developers!
So, it's good to have 'configuration' projects, but don't thing too easy about it!That bad thing as developer is that you use less clean Eclipse and coding functionality in Java!
Best regards
