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…
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…
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….
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 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…
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 – 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…