Documentum News & Articles

I spent this past week in Orlando, Florida at EMC World 2009. This year enterprise content management vendor EMC (news, site) put their best foot forward in an effort to make Content Management and Archiving (CMA) attendees -- otherwise known as Documentum users -- feel like they were attending a conference that was addressing their needs.

For the most part, they succeeded. Here's a summary of what transpired.

Global enterprise business solutions provider NEC is to enter into an alliance with one of India’s original IT garage start-ups, HCL, to extend the reach of EMC Documentum to Japan.

The recently announced partnership will result in the development a specific Japanese Document Management System, with NEC setting revenue targets of US$ 750 million (75 billion Yen) for the 2011 fiscal year with the new product.

With over 30 bi-directional connectors to many of the most-used enterprise content management systems, EntropySoft is helping organizations easily integrate the various technologies they use for content-centric applications.

Their newest connector is the EMC Documentum eRoom connector. Designed for version 7.x of eRoom, the connector enables you to read and write content in the eRoom repository, including to objects such as forums, tasks and projects.

As with all connectors, the connector is non-intrusive and there are no installation requirements for the eRoom server.

The EntropySoft Connector factory also includes connectors for HP TRIM, Oracle UCM, IBM WebSphere Portal Document Manager and Interwoven WorkSite. Plug-and-play EntropySoft connectors include major applications such as Microsoft SharePoint, FileNET P8, Open Text LiveLink and Interwoven TeamSite.

All connectors are written in Java and are accessible via Java or .Net and web services.

The EntropySoft connectors are OEMed through a number of solutions and partners, including search vendors like Endeca, and most recently eDiscovery vendor Kazeon. The latest OEM partnership is with Image Integration Systems, provider of the DocuSphere BPI solution.

Have a closer look at all the connectors on their website.

Why would a highly-diversified Enterprise CMS technology corporation with licensing revenues in the billions of dollars be interested in a tiny company that specializes in support software for open source projects?

As good as EMC Documentum is at building an enterprise content management platform, the company leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to user interface design. If your problem is authoring XML content via Webtop -- Documentum's web-based GUI for accessing EMC Documentum repository -- JustSystems has a solution.

Are you tired of hearing of this draft CMIS thing yet? Content management software companies aren’t. No rest until everyone comes up with something CMIS-compliant. Most recently, EMC released an updated CMIS-compliant version of its Documentum ECM platform.

CMIS is still in the draft, pre-born stage, but everyone wants a piece of it. Reminds us of the SharePoint saga, only MOSS is already bearing lotsa $$$ behind it.

In CMIS case, it’s all about interoperability and inter-CMS-ial, inter-repositorial camaraderie. Kind of like an Enterprise CMS socialism.

EMC appears to have developed a good relationship with RWD Technologies, providers of Performance Management Services and Solutions. RWD has recently announced that it will offer EMC Document Sciences Integration Services to its customers in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing and energy sectors. This is the continuation of a long standing relationship with EMC.

EMC Document Sciences xPression 3 is a customer relationship management system (CRM) that automates the creation of customized and personalized business documents.

RWD has over 20 years experience is developing and integrating CRM and content management systems. Some of their own solutions include: uPerform, a performance support system, and uBenchmark, a solution that helps organizations understand how their employees interact with business applications. Along with their EMC partnership, they also offer services for SAP and Oracle.

Want to understand more about the EMC Integration Services or how you can improve the performance of your contact center? Attend RWD’s webinar on October 21 called “Empowering the Contact Center: Leveraging Dynamic Communications to Improve Response Time and Satisfaction”.

So you like Documentum, but you don’t like the price tag associated with developing an enterprise content management solution on it? You’re in luck then because Impact Systems has developed a couple of solutions just for you, especially if you have those annoying compliance g-men hanging out in the office.

Pegasus Imaging Corporation, a digital imaging vendor, released a new version of Prizm Viewer — the browser-based image viewer.

With Prizm Viewer v8 users can navigate, view, annotate and share images, CAD and PDF files residing in document management or Enterprise CMS’s via a web browser.

A “balance between business agility and IT control”. That’s what EMC is calling the latest release of EMC Documentum v6.5. This latest version is packed with Web 2.0 functionality and a number of other enhancements we told you were coming when we covered the EMC Roadmap for Content Management that came out of the EMC World conference in Vegas.

If you have an environment which combines SharePoint and Documentum and need a way to get both electronic and paper-based information into both, then Daybreak has developed the solution for you.

Content management ain’t easy, but as our saying goes — it matters. Fortunately, companies like FatWire Software are making it easier to manage and access content across the messy, complex environments we often have to deal with. They have recently announced the availability of their FatWire Content Integration Platform as well as the beta release of the EMC Documentum connector to enable customers to more effectively manage content across complex environments.

EMC Corporation has picked up another award, this one coming from India. Their famed EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management platform took home the Great Indian Developer Award at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2008.

Props to Translations.com’s flagship software product, GlobalLink Content Director, for receiving the coveted “Designed for EMC Documentum” accreditation. This strived-for accreditation is a mark of quality in the enterprise applications industry that signifies that GlobalLink Content Director has successfully met a set of criteria for solid design and quality integration.

Archiving has become a huge deal for organizations large and small as rules and regulations dictate how easily information needs to be available for compliance and legal purposes. So it’s no surprise that enterprise content management vendors are incorporating these requirements into their solution offerings.

Oracle, being no exception, has developed the Oracle Online Archive that uses their database as a storage repository for all types of content, including email, files, etc. Seems like they have been down this road before though. Does a “single solution for all content types” work in the real world?