ECM tool, in part based on newly acquired AskOnce from Xerox, will let users organize, store and retrieve content across multiple data stores.
Documentum announced Virtual
Repository, a new cross-repository content management solution in part based on
AskOnce, technology it acquired from Xerox.
The company made the announcement at
this week’s Documation Conference and Expo in Paris and said the new ware would be
available early in the second quarter of this year.
According to Documentum, Virtual
Repository lets users access, use and manage content stored in a variety of
places – be they repositories, file servers, Web sites or enterprise
applications – without ever having to copy or move the data to a centralized
location.
"With the Documentum Virtual Repository
solution, companies will be able to control all of their content – internal and
external, structured and unstructured – regardless of where it resides," said
Dave DeWalt, president of the Documentum division of EMC.
Documentum said Virtual Repository
provides six layers of control:
* Enterprise content
integration. For discovery of and access to content from a wide range
of internal and external information sources (this is enabled by the Xerox
AskOnce technology).
* Business process
management. For integrating of content into business-critical
processes.
* Content
aggregation. For automated and scheduled content collection from
multiple sources.
* Content
distribution. For guaranteed delivery of content in multiple formats to
internal and external destinations.
* Content
classification and categorization. For automated knowledge
management.
The heart of the content integration
piece is Xerox’s AskOnce,
which Documentum acquired this week for an undisclosed price.
AskOnce is a browser-based content
integration tool that can search multiple repositories and data types with a
single query. Since it uses a standard interface, it can work with any
repository or database via what it terms "customized wrappers," and does not
require the installation of any client-side application software. It comes
standard with wrappers for Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft Site Server (MS
Exchange Public Folders), Oracle, Xerox Docushare, Documentum and any JDBC/ODBC
database. It also supports Internet search engines such as Google,
OpenDirectory, Yahoo, HotBot, CMPnet, LookSmart, Overture and AskJeeves, among
others.
For more information, visit Documentum
here.
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