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…
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…
Content Repository and Services Layer
At the base of the Documentum platform is the enterprise content repository andDocumentum Content Server, which manages the repository and implements the corecontent management capabilities. Content Server makes these capabilities available toclients and applications through the interface layer. Documentum Content Server is the software that manages the content repository andprovides…
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 Fundamental
Documentum is using Object oriented foundation system where all items are considered as objects. It might be document, xml, type, attribute, process, lifecycle, security, presets, group, user or any other entity managed or stored in ECM System. Each object is identified with a specific type, and a unique object id….
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…
Documentum Introduction
Documentum…., the word shows that this term must be related to documents. In fact, Documentum is the name of company who has founded Electronic Document Management System (EDMS). Documentum is an enterprise content management platform, now owned by EMC Corporation, as well as the name of the software company that originally developed the technology….
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…