Emc Documentum News & Articles

Although influenced by multiple Enterprise CMS passion attacks, in its heart, EMC (news, site) has always been a data storage/management company. Having experience with managing large content/case/records assets in the enterprise is part of the attraction.

With the upcoming acquisition of a privately-held, data warehousing company Greenplum, it's becoming even clearer where EMC's true heart desires lie -- on the intersection of big data computing and business analytics.

 Fatwire (news, site) is back in the news this week with the release of FatWire Content Integration Platform 2.0 for EMC Documentum. The platform enables organizations to apply enterprise standards for retention and business compliance to Web content. 

When EMC announced a strategic partnership with FatWire designed to replace their Web CMS with FatWire's Web Experience Management framework, there was a lot of talk about the benefits for both companies and clients, but not a lot of detail.

After speaking to FatWire, it looks like clients of the combined solution should start seeing improvements in Digital Asset Management (DAM), compliance and analytics.

The Apache Lucene Connector Framework (LCF) has reached the next stage toward becoming an official Apache (news, site) project.

Not long after announcing their new EMC Documentum DFS Connector, EntropySoft (news, site) officially announces they can also connect to EMC CenterStage and that they will support CMIS.

As the biggest gathering of enterprise content management software professionals outside of the US, it is understandable that Momentum Europe should be producing some interesting Europe-centric announcements.

One of those comes from EMC (news, site) who have just announced that they intend to apply for MoReq2 certification for Documentum Records Manager next year.

EMC has a number of solutions for information governance and life-cycle management that can manage documents from creation to editing to archiving to destruction, depending on what its users need.

A quick update on the EMC (news, site) Documentum xCP Designer's Challenge we told you about last month. The challenge, initiated May, was open to anyone who wanted to demonstrate how easy it was to build real world case management applications using EMC Documentum xCP.

xCP is a platform that allows you to build and deliver case-based solutions rapidly. It includes pre-packaged and pre-integrated components for content management, business process management, monitoring and reporting, compliance, intelligent capture, collaboration and customer communications management.

The winner of the Challenge were announced yesterday at Momentum Europe 2009. It was Booz Allen Hamilton for its RoadPulse Application. Developed in 8 days, it is a local and state government notification system for infrastructure concerns.

Second place went to Avantias for its Education Center application and third went to Trends Global for its Healthcare Content Collaboration Gateway application.

The Designer's Challenge was definitely a smart way for EMC to show the world how easy it is to build case management solutions on their xCP platform. Seeing it in action is much better than reading the marketing buzz.

EMC (news, site) is committed to offering tools for the everyday knowledge worker who needs enterprise content management services, but doesn't want to use complex tools.

It's Monday, the SharePoint Conference 2009 is now getting ready to head into full swing and the partner announcements are starting to emerge.

EMC (news, site) swings out of the gate first with four SharePoint offerings, one of which is not really new, but interesting just the same.

Adjusting your pricing model to bring more customers to your door has become a common theme lately. Vorsite (news, site), a provider of enterprise content connectors, has offered up their new pricing model designed to not only help them, but SharePoint as well.

The Forrester Wave for Web Content Management For External Sites, Q2 2009 is out and there are 10 web content management vendors on the list that we all know and love well. SDL Tridion (news, site) took the top honors this time with Interwoven and FatWire close behind.

Why are these three vendors at the top and who else is on the list? Let's take a look.

Last year when EMC (news, site) finally unveiled its updated version of Documentum -- v6.5 -- it offered the promise of “balance between business agility and IT control.”

While it came chock-a-block with new Web 2.0 abilities, for Wipro, the global IT solutions provider, the new document and record management abilities prompted them to develop a new Hosted Document Management (HDM) solution leveraging Documentum.

Unveiled at last week’s EMC World 2009, the new solution, which is entirely scalable, is already available for interested companies.

What’s better than free? We sure can’t come up with anything, which is at least one reason the new EMC Documentum Developer Edition will likely earn a few double takes.

The new resource for application developers interested in utilizing the Enterprise CMS platform was released as a free download earlier this month, along with the announcement of a new developer-oriented community.

Want to know how scalable EMC Documentum (news, site) really is? Well they wanted to show you. So they conducted a benchmarking study with Microsoft and HP to demonstrate just how well the enterprise content management solution would perform under pressure.

The results? You be the judge, but they look pretty impressive.

With the amount of sensitive content floating around enterprise content management systems it is hardly surprising that ‘security’ is becoming an increasingly important issue, especially given the number of companies that are beefing up their web presence.

Only last week, US data and email security firm Websense introduced a new Web Gateway appliance that allows companies access Web 2.0 sites without security concerns.

This week, UK-based Sword Group, a provider of high value and hi-tech business applications, has unveiled a new gadget that will allow enterprise content management integration for Google Apps.

And the clincher -- using the gadget can access complex ECM repositories that are firewalled up to the hilt.