The new Documentum platform is a world's major ECM offering based on a completely unified architecture, representing a significant innovation over today's more loosely integrated platforms and raising the bar on customers' expectations for an ECM platform. With this announcement, EMC is helping customers graduate from traditional content services that address the creation, management, delivery and archival of content. Now, these customers can implement a completely unified stack that includes process and repository services to provide increased functionality and flexibility in collaboration, automation and security. Customers can now improve their ability to derive the maximum value from their information, at the lowest cost and at every point in the information lifecycle.
"Content management has reached an inflection point," said Dave DeWalt, Executive Vice President, EMC Software. "Customers across the globe have come to realize the functional and financial limitations of architectures that mask loosely integrated applications with a seemingly united single interface. They are asking for more. EMC has answered the call with an all-accessible, highly scalable infrastructure for unstructured information -- a unified repository and set of services that is completely accessible by the masses of applications, desktops and systems that are spread across an enterprise. This capability makes possible entirely new levels of powerful content management. "We can now talk to all data sources, not just what's stored in Documentum," he said.
Building upon already unified technologies for the management of documents, XML files, rich media, web content and business process management, the new platform further unifies collaboration, federated search and retention management capabilities into one platform.
While some ECM providers layer a user interface on top of a range of content management applications, the underlying architectures still comprise multiple code bases, security models, repositories, object models, APIs, etc. EMC Documentum enables all content management applications to share the same unified architecture with a common code base, security model, repository, object model and API.
This new breadth of unification across the widest range of ECM technologies offers significantly simpler implementation, lower deployment and administration costs, superior performance and reliability, and better security and accountability with unified audit trails.
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