Emc Documentum News & Articles

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.

Brava for Legal ISE!

No really. Informative Graphics Corporation (news, site) announced a partnership with Trinity Technologies that will integrate IGC's Brava with Trinity's Legal ISE suite.

The suite acts as both a content management and legal discovery platform for EMC Documentum clients and now plans to offer e-viewing, collaboration and redaction options courtesy of Brava and Redact-It Enterprise.

If you are hanging out at the AIIM Conference the next few days, you are going to hear some interesting news and announcements from EMC (news, site). Along with some revealing research conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by EMC, on the impact and importance of organizational agility, EMC is also announcing some new solutions designed to help customers work smarter.

EMC Corporation -- an Enterprise CMS, and information management and infrastructure vendor -- announced that it expects an all-time quarterly revenue record for its Q4 2008. The preliminary results show expected revenue of approximately US$ 4 billion, which is approximately 8% revenue growth over Q3 2008, and 4% growth over the same period a year ago.

On the not-so-optimistic side, EMC also announced its plans to cut as many as 2,400 jobs, representing approximately 7% of its entire workforce.

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.

Vorsite continues its pursuit of connector technologies for Microsoft SharePoint and enterprise content management systems with the announcement of a new product in its suite of enterprise search and ECM connector solutions.

With the new solution, ActiveResults, it should be easier to search, find and manage information scattered across multiple locations — e-mail servers, ECM systems, file servers, intranets, desktops, etc. — as in a typical enterprise content management scenario.

UK-based The Content Group leads the quality standards study for Enterprise Content Management. The Content Group (CG) aims to collaborate with BSI British Standards to develop a best practice standard for ECM, which will establish a frame of reference for the entire ECM market. The final result is expected to be the first ever Publicly Available Specification (PAS) for Enterprise Content Management.

A specification for ECM…something that should have been done long ago? Is the content management industry ready for it?