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…
Client Layer
The client layer consists of basic applications for users to access the Documentumrepository. It includes end-user interfaces, administrator tools, and integrations withpopular authoring tools and enterprise applications. Applications on the client layer are built from reusable components that build on thecontent management service available from lower layers in the architecture….
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…
Documentum Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise content management (ECM) is the category of software that helps you manageall of the unstructured information or content in your enterprise.This information exists in many digital forms as text documents, engineering drawings,XML, still images, audio and video files, and many other file types and formats.ECM helps you create content…
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 – Preserve
Preserve involves the long-term, safe storage and backup of static, unchanging information. The logical architecture and functionality model is definded by the ISO Standard 14721 “OAIS”. Preservation is typically accomplished by the records management features of an ECM system and many are designed to help companies comply with government and…
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 – 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…