Content Management Meets Web 2.0 Without Enterprise Risk - EMC Delivers Version 6.5...

Content Management Meets Web 2.0 Without Enterprise Risk - EMC Delivers
Version 6.5 of Documentum ECM Suite
Fosters New Ways People Work with Enhanced Performance, Security and
Compliance

HOPKINTON, Mass., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the EMC
Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite version 6.5 -- a family
of products that marries the great user experience of Web 2.0 and the strength
of the enterprise-class Documentum platform to deliver a balance between
business agility and IT control.
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Web 2.0 enables new ways for people to work and collaborate. However,
security and compliance concerns are preventing many organizations from fully
embracing Web 2.0 technologies or worse, leaving them open to risks as end
users experiment with applications on their own. In addition, the volume of
incoming information from Web 2.0 applications is equally threatening and
requires that systems scale to meet the increased performance demands of a Web
2.0 world.
"The explosion of digital content combined with the ease of use of Web 2.0
and social computing fuel users' expectations for how technology should work
and how they should access information. As a result, IT is faced with a new
challenge of meeting these heightened expectations while providing a secure
information infrastructure," said Melissa Webster, Program Vice President,
Content & Digital Media Technologies at IDC. "The next generation of ECM
needs to provide business users with appealing and flexible content-enabled
solutions while ensuring that IT continues to maintain control by mitigating
these new elements of risk."
Documentum ECM 6.5 introduces several key innovations that deliver a rich
Web 2.0 user experience and enhanced XML capabilities, while delivering
improved enterprise performance and scalability, federated records management
as well as accelerated transactional business processes. For the first time,
companies will be able to leverage the appeal of newer technologies for users,
improve the existing content applications already in use, and power all of
these with a more scalable and secure ECM platform than ever before available.
"With the release of Documentum ECM 6.5, EMC is raising the bar for the
next generation of enterprise content management," said Balaji Yelamanchili,
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Content Management and Archiving
at EMC. "We're delivering a balance of the best experience for users with the
control and performance IT needs to sustain a scalable and secure information
infrastructure."
Rich Web 2.0 User Experience
In today's Web 2.0 world, companies are required to provide a set of user
experiences that enable employees to work with corporate information the way
they work with personal information -- easy to use, easy to find and easy to
interact with others. By marrying the best of the user experience models with
robust ECM capabilities, Documentum ECM 6.5 extends the value of ECM to a much
broader set of users, creating new ways for them to work and collaborate.
Key products in Documentum ECM 6.5 that provide users with a rich Web 2.0
experience include:
-- Documentum CenterStage Essentials, a new client for knowledge workers
which is being released as a free online beta. The completely redesigned
interface is extremely easy to use and features shared team workspaces, guided
search and simple Documentum access.
-- Documentum Media WorkSpace, a new rich media interface which provides
users a highly personalized, dynamic and familiar way to view, find, compare,
annotate, review and share rich media assets.
-- My Documentum, a new lightweight client that is completely integrated
with the desktop providing users with immediate access to the latest versions
of content they use most often as well as allowing them to access and work on
documents when they are not connected to the server.
-- Documentum Web Publisher Page Builder, a newly designed, Flex-based Web
authoring interface provides non-technical business users authors with
interactive and easy to use tools to create compelling Web experiences.
-- An enhanced Documentum TaskSpace delivers a highly configurable, all-
in-one user experience that combines content, process, high-fidelity forms and
monitoring to accelerate business processes and substantially increase user
productivity.
End-to-End XML Ready
Community based authoring, which is common in Web 2.0 technologies, is
changing the format and increasing the amount of content being generated.
Users expect content to be automatically delivered, combined, and repurposed
as digital mash-ups to suit the personalized context in which they work. XML
is a key enabler for achieving this flexibility by allowing highly granular
access to and assembly of all types of information.
The enhanced XML capabilities in Documentum ECM 6.5 are delivered through
Documentum XML Store, a new native XML database available within the
Documentum platform and related content delivery applications. A market
first, EMC provides an integrated, end-to-end solution for creating, managing,
accessing, archiving and delivering XML alongside all other types of
enterprise content. Documentum's XML capabilities consist of robust
management of XML documents and components, high-performance search and query
of XML content, dynamic delivery and content transformation applications for
content repurposing and personalized publishing as well as solutions for
Technical Publications (DITA) and Aerospace and Defense (S1000D).
Improved Enterprise Performance and Scalability
The Documentum ECM 6.5 platform also allows IT to address today's
exploding content requirements while enhancing enterprise performance,
security and compliance. EMC's Documentum High-Volume Server delivers a
centralized and optimized set of services for mass-volume applications such as
archiving and transactional content applications. The High Volume Server
provides high speed ingestion, batch processing, lightweight footprint for
metadata and data partitioning-all designed to serve the needs of extremely
high volume applications.
To make it significantly easier to work with rich media files as they
increase from megabytes and gigabytes to even terabytes in size, EMC AVALONidm
is now integrated with the Documentum digital asset management products. This
enables seamless and automated management of business policies and movement of
large video content across tiered storage.
"Version 6.5 of the Documentum ECM Suite continues to live up to the
performance and scalability that we've come to expect from the Documentum
platform," said Chris Campbell, a Documentum architect at FirstCommand
Financial Services. "Its ability to support high-volume transactional and
archive environments makes it our unified platform of choice for ECM."
Limitless Records Management
EMC Documentum Federated Records Services (FRS) extends records management
capabilities to provide a single system of record for business content that
needs to be preserved for governance and compliance purposes, regardless of
location or system. FRS enables content that resides in other repositories to
be managed by Documentum allowing improved policy enforcement and management,
improved compliance and records capture and lowered cost of discovery. With
FRS, customers can preserve the investment they've made in third party records
and retention management systems, rather than replacing them.
Accelerating Transactional Business Processes
The Documentum ECM 6.5 also includes enhancements to EMC's Documentum
Process Suite designed to expand the user experience in constructing and
delivering process-centric applications in a Web 2.0 world. EMC Documentum
Forms Builder now enables the creation of high-fidelity electronic forms that
truly resemble their paper counterparts-without the associated bottlenecks,
overhead costs and risk. Also included are bar code and electronic signature
support, as well as automatic field validation, offline support and intuitive
graphical design tools.
EMC Documentum Business Activity Monitor (BAM) has significant
enhancements that utilize Flex-based technologies to deliver business
performance dashboards that provide interactive charts and graphs indicating
process status, bottlenecks and other business performance events. Dashboards
are updated in real time and are embedded within Documentum TaskSpace to
provide a single point of control for business processes.
All products in Documentum ECM 6.5 will be available July 31, 2008 except
for CenterStage Essentials and My Documentum, which will be available later in
the current quarter (Q3 2008).
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider
of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable
organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value
from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be
found at www.EMC.com.
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