Technical Architecture
Key Features Security Documentum provides better security than a file system. With a file system, if someonehas access to your hard drive, they can pretty much read, edit, and even delete any file onthe hard drive. With Documentum, you can prevent any individual user (or group ofusers) from seeing the…
Documentum History
Howard Shao and John Newton formed a company named Documentum in June 1990, while they were working at Ingres and found a solution to unstructured information management problems using relational database technology. With initial backing from Xerox, they developed a customized system for Boeing to organize, store, maintain, and selectively…
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 Components – Capture
Capture involves converting information from paper documents into an electronic format through scanning. Capture is also used to collect electronic files and information into a consistent structure for management. Capture technologies also encompass the creation of metadata (index values) that describe characteristics of a document for easy location through search…
ECM Components – Manage
The Manage category includes five traditional application areas: Document management (DM) Collaboration (or collaborative software, a.k.a. groupware, including as well Web 2.0 features) Web content management (WCM, including web portals) Records management (RM) Workflow and business process management (BPM) The Manage category connects the other components, which can be used…
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…
Parag Doshi’s ECM Notes
Enterprise Content Management, when I herd of this term first time I was thinking it should be something related to companies and their documents. But when I get into this, I get to know that it is not only related to company documents but it is like an ocean which…