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posted on 22 July 2008 15:00

EMC has added social networking, Web 2.0 support and functionality to Documentum, its enterprise content management (ECM) product suite.

The new v6.5 Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite has these overall advantages:-

- Needs 37% fewer mouse clicks than version 5.3,
- Supports 8 million objects per day,
- Has a 63% improvement in file transfer time compared to version 5.3,
- Supports 4 million documents per index,
- Is 61 times faster than version 5.3.

In more detail Documentum ECM 6.5 provides users with a rich Web 2.0 experience including:

- Documentum Centerstage Essentials, a new client for knowledge workers which 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.

Futhermore:

- Documentum ECM 6.5 has enhanced XML capabilities delivered through Documentum XML Store, a new native XML database
available within the Documentum platform and related content delivery applications. EMC provides an integrated, end-to-end
capability for creating, managing, accessing, archiving and delivering XML alongside all other types of enterprise content.

- 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, which are all designed to serve the needs of extremely high volume applications.

- EMC AVALONidm is now integrated with the Documentum digital asset management products. to enable seamless and automated management of business policies and movement of large video content across tiered storage.

- 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. With FRS, customers can preserve the investment they've made in third party records and retention management systems.

- Documentum Forms Builder now enables the creation of high-fidelity electronic forms that truly resemble their paper counterparts. Also included are bar code and electronic signature support, as well as automatic field validation, offline support and intuitive graphical design tools.

- 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).

^{[Martin Edwards, news writer.]}