EMC Announces Availability of Integrated Enterprise Content Management Support for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
EMC Customers Including Constellation Energy Eager to Leverage
Native Integration of EMC Documentum Capabilities within SharePoint
Environment
HOPKINTON, Mass. - April 16, 2007 - EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced
the immediate availability of two key enterprise content management
(ECM) solutions aimed at providing seamless integration between EMC
Documentum software and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With
these new products, EMC Documentum augments and extends Office
SharePoint Server 2007 by providing a single source for integrated ECM
capabilities that enable archiving, records management, business process
management, imaging and classification.
With EMC Documentum Archive Services for SharePoint software, customers
gain access to an enterprise infrastructure for centralized control of
content that has been created and managed in SharePoint Server 2007. EMC
Documentum Content Services for SharePoint is a set of ASP.Net Web Parts
allowing access to the Documentum Content Server through the SharePoint
Server 2007 interface. By integrating SharePoint Server 2007 knowledge
worker applications with Documentum's enterprise-class ECM
infrastructure, customers can better satisfy their requirements for
information compliance, security and business process support - while
leveraging the ease of use of the SharePoint Server 2007 environment.
"As an EMC Documentum customer, we're very pleased to see these newest
products offering seamless integration with the Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007 platform," said Elizabeth O'Connor, Corporate
Applications Project Manager, Constellation Energy. "By leveraging these
solutions, we will gain more choice and control over management of core
business information - better enabling us to deliver value to our
customers."
Content Services for SharePoint software exposes key Documentum
functionality in the SharePoint Server 2007 interface, including the
ability to:
* Search for content across the Documentum
repository, and monitor and subscribe to critical documents
* Direct access to the Documentum Inbox,
QuickFlows and the Business Process Management System
* Manage document lifecycles, and support
virtual documents
With Archive Services for SharePoint, customers are now able to:
* Archive based on metadata or events
* Leverage shortcuts, which archive
content to Documentum while leaving a link behind in SharePoint Server
2007
* Utilize mass transfer capabilities to
move documents from SharePoint Server 2007 to Documentum
* Transfer content from SharePoint Server
2007 to Documentum while retaining all rich document properties and
metadata
"Businesses are seeing an explosion of information, and enterprise
content management has become a strategic imperative," said Jeff Teper,
Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Group
at Microsoft Corp. "Documentum delivers a variety of additional content
management solutions that integrate with the enterprise content
management capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and
the 2007 Office system. The integrated offerings from EMC and Microsoft
allow users to take full advantage of the content services, processes
and policies that apply to all corporate content within the familiar
applications they use every day."
"Six months ago, EMC announced an extended alliance with Microsoft aimed
at helping customers better address the full range of content management
requirements for both the desktop and the enterprise," said Balaji
Yelamanchili, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EMC's Content
Management and Archiving Group. "Today's announcement is a major proof
point as we deliver on this commitment, answering customers' demands for
seamless integration of their work environments with enterprise-level
content management."
As part of today's launch, EMC also announced the availability of its
Proof of Concept Service for integrating SharePoint Server 2007 with
Documentum software. The service is aimed at demonstrating the business
value of connecting EMC and Microsoft best-in-class platforms, and it
focuses on identifying key requirements and use scenarios,
proof-of-concept systems configuration, stakeholder demonstration and
production implementation planning.
Content Services for SharePoint software and Archive Services for
SharePoint software are core pieces of the EMC Documentum family, which
helps customers manage all types of content across multiple departments
within a single repository. With a unified repository, various groups
can easily share and reuse their content with other business areas that
would benefit from this information. EMC's product family also allows
customers to share content safely with outside organizations including
partners, vendors and customers.