EMC Documentum Products
Content Server EMC Documentum Content Server is the foundation of EMC Documentum’s contentmanagement system. EMC Documentum Content Server is the core functionality that allows users to create,capture, manage, deliver, and archive enterprise content.The functionality and features of Content Server provide content and processmanagement services, security for the content and metadata…
Business Process Suit or Business Process Manager (BPM)
A complete tool set for business process management equally well-suited for managingloosely structured collaborative processes and highly structured high-volumetransactional processes. Documentum Process Suite comprises the following EMC Documentum products: Process Builder: Process Builder enables you to easily implement process models and deploy them for execution by Documentum Process Engine. Part…
Documentum Composer or Documentum Application Builder
EMC Documentum Composer provides a unified development platform for assembling,configuring, and deploying EMC Documentum applications. Based on the EclipseIntegrated Development Environment (IDE), Composer helps you create and maintainEMC Documentum application elements such as workflow templates, lifecycledefinitions, security settings, aspects, and object types.Composer’s popular Eclipse plug-in model supports the broader ecosystem…
Standard interfaces
Documentum provides a number of standard interfaces in addition to the DFC API,simplifying access to the repository from authoring applications, application servers, andother components of the enterprise infrastructure. The standard interfaces include: ODBC and OLEDB Many reporting tools, such as Crystal Reports and MicrosoftAccess, leverage Microsoft data access protocols for…
Application Layer
Content Services Integration with Enterprise Applications Documentum offers several products that enable interaction with the Documentumcontent management system from within other enterprise applications. Among theproducts are: • Documentum Content Services for SAP • Documentum Content Services for Siebel e-Business Application • Documentum Content Services for Lotus Notes Mail • Documentum…
Interface Layer
Web Servers Clients and applications use the interface layer to communicate withContent Server and interact with the content repository. The interface layer consists ofDocumentum Foundation Classes (DFC) and a number of standard interfaces built on topof DFC. Documentum Foundation Classes Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC) represents the richest API exposing allDocumentum…
Documentum Architecture
The Four Layers of the Documentum ECM Platform The services layer, consisting of Documentum Content Server and a variety of extendedservices, provides the content management functionality and serves as the foundation forall other products. The interface layer, consisting of Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC) and itsrelated APIs, provides communication between the…
ECM Components – Deliver
The deliver components of ECM present information from the Manage, Store, and Preserve components. The AIIM component model for ECM is function-based, and doesn’t impose a strict hierarchy; the Deliver components may contain functions used to enter information into other systems (such as transferring information to portable media, or generating…
ECM Characteristics
Content management includes ECM, Web content management (WCM), content syndication, and media asset management. Enterprise content management is not a closed-system solution or a distinct product category. Therefore, along with Document Related Technologies or Document Lifecycle Management, ECM is just one possible catch-all term for a wide range of technologies…
ECM Components – Store
Store components temporarily store information that isn’t required, desired, or ready for long-term storage or preservation. Even if the Store component uses media that are suitable for long-term archiving, “Store” is still separate from “Preserve.” Store addresses storing information during use and retention periods, Preserve addresses longterm digital preservation of…