The company says the latest release delivers on the promise of unifying content management.EMC Corp. has announced the release of its EMC Documentum 5.3 enterprise content management platform, which the company calls a major comprehensive release.
Dave DeWalt, executive vice president of the information and storage management provider, based in Hopkinton, Mass., quoted in the announcement said, "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."
Documentum provides users with a unified enterprise content management platform. Often companies rely on an integration layer to manage content that links together disparate technologies for managing documents, digital assets, Web content and collaborative efforts.
Lubor Ptacek, director of marketing for EMC Documentum, said this release is the first to provide a unified architecture in which all applications share a common technology stack. As a result, said Ptacek, customers realize lower total cost of ownership, lower training requirements, better performance, improved reliability and a consistent security model.
Documentum builds upon already unified technologies for document management, XML files, rich media, Web content and business process management, and unifies collaboration, federated search and retention management capabilities in one platform, said the company.
The company highlighted unifying features including enhanced collaboration services for users, retention policy services that enable users to apply retention policies to all documents stored in the Documentum repository, and the new Documentum Client for Outlook, which gives users the ability to manage documents with e-mail through their MS Outlook interface.
The Documentum ECM platform and the associated suite of products are available as of March 31.
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