Documentum Applauds PC DOCS and Filenet's Attempt to Catch Up; Three Years After Documentum Built Advanced Document, Imaging and Workflow Capabilities, Competitors Are Now Trying to Match Functionality Through Patchwork Integration.PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997--Documentum, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DCTM), the recognized leader in enterprise document management solutions for client/server and Web environments, today applauded its competitors for finally recognizing that customers need a complete document management solution. "Documentum congratulates PC DOCS and FileNet/Saros for realizing what we determined three years ago - customers want one solution that provides them with document management, workflow and imaging features," said Larry Warnock, director of corporate marketing for Documentum, Inc. "Not only were we the first to provide this solution, but also the first to provide Web content management as part of the system. By architecting these features at the beginning and tightly integrating them into our flagship Enterprise Document Management System (EDMS (Electronic Document Management System or Enterprise Document Management System ) See document management. EDMS - Electronic Document Management System ) product, we produced a superior offering compared to a 'suite' of cobbled-together technologies." "To optimize optimize - optimisation the value of business-critical documents, Documentum automates all of the associated procedures that take place between a document's creation and its reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. and repurposing," continued Warnock. "These procedures range over the document's entire lifecyclecapturing information, managing and controlling updates to the document, coordinating workflow, automating its release and distribution, assembling document components, and making the document easy for users to find and access. And with our system, these documents can be any data type, including but not limited to text, CAD, objects, images and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. ." -0- Note to Editors: Documentum is a trademark of Documentum, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other company and product names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Documentum, Inc. Sharon McNeill, 510/463-6800 (Marketing Communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales ) smcneill@documentum.com or Niehaus Ryan Group, Inc. Todd Berkowitz, 415/827-7030 (Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most ) toddb@nrgpr.com |
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