Documentum Teams with IBM to Power Dynamic Web Content for eBusiness Sites; Documentum Integrates IBM WebSphere Application Server with Documentum 4i.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999 Documentum, a leading provider of Internet-scale content management solutions for powering eBusiness applications, (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), today announced that as part of the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) PartnerWorld for Developers Program, Documentum will integrate IBM WebSphere(1) with its Documentum 4i solution and will receive co-marketing support for the solution from IBM. By offering customers a solution for global content management and eBusiness application delivery, Documentum and IBM will enable easier, faster and more reliable deployment of Web content. Documentum 4i is a leading open, standards-based content management platform that integrates dynamic content and complex business processes with people everywhere. Documentum 4i provides a secure common repository for serving Web content ranging from 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. text, images, Java applets, graphics and multimedia, such as video, audio and animation. WebSphere Application Servers are Java-based Web application servers that help customers deploy and manage eBusiness applications that support the industry-standard Enterprise Java Bean See JavaBeans. (EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. ) programming model and provide customers with advanced transactional capabilities. "IBM recognizes that the ability to connect Web-based users to existing documents and other unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. is critical to the success of any enterprise content management solution," said Paraic Sweeney, vice president, Business Transformation Marketing at IBM. "We're pleased that Documentum has teamed with IBM to leverage the technology in WebSphere to build flexible, standards-based eBusiness applications that will help our joint customers compete in the eBusiness marketplace of the next century." "IBM has established itself as a visionary at the forefront of building, running and managing Web applications -- such as high-traffic retail sites, supply-chain management and Web self-service applications. In turn, our Global 2000 customers have long relied on Documentum to power their trusted content across the enterprise," said David DeWalt, executive vice president and general manager, eBusiness at Documentum, Inc. "As our customers rise to meet the challenge of powering the trusted content required by dynamic eBusiness applications, a tight integration with the WebSphere family of application servers ensures a best-of-breed solution." About the Documentum Open Content Architecture The Open Content Architecture (OCA OCA oculocutaneous albinism. ) is part of Documentum 4i, the first content management platform designed to dynamically manage all facets of content creation and delivery. Live Content Adapters provide the integration link with preferred eBusiness technologies and address the speed, flexibility and rich feature requirements of today's eBusiness applications. With OCA, companies can leverage existing technology investments and implement best-of-breed new technology, while speeding time to deployment. OCA was designed to support and take advantage of market-leading standards including Java, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database . By providing live, trusted content to any enterprise or e-commerce application, OCA ensures that as content changes, it is made available instantly. About IBM WebSphere The IBM WebSphere Application Servers This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. represent the industry's most complete range of Web application server environments that support business applications from simple Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. through enterprise-scale transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. . IBM's WebSphere Application Server, Advanced Edition, expands on the capabilities of IBM's WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition, by providing customers with support for the industry-standard Enterprise JavaBean Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) is a managed, server-side component architecture for modular construction of enterprise applications. The EJB specification is one of the several Java APIs in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. programming model. IBM WebSphere Studio is a comprehensive tools environment for building Web applications that leverage existing enterprise systems and extend them to the Web, while running on multiple IBM and non-IBM platforms. WebSphere Performance Pack is a unique combination of caching, proxy and filtering functions; file content management and replication; and load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them in a single Internet hosting infrastructure. About IBM's PartnerWorld for Developers Documentum is a member of IBM's worldwide PartnerWorld for Developers program which is designed to help commercial software developers reach broader markets, lower their costs of doing business, and take their products to market faster. The program is focused on leading-edge technologies that enable developers to deliver complete e-business solutions to their customers. For more information on PartnerWorld for Developers or to join the program, visit: http://www.developer.ibm.com. About Documentum Documentum, the leading provider of Internet-scale content management solutions for powering eBusiness applications, offers solutions that integrate dynamic content, complex business processes and people everywhere - enabling seamless collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing between employees, partners, suppliers and customers. Documentum offers the only open, standards-based content management platform and applications suite for managing complex processes as well as any content type, in a truly collaborative environment - enabling trusted content to be delivered to the right person at the right time on any information device, regardless of its origin or location. Documentum's highly adaptable collaboration and content management solutions enable corporate developers and Internet System Integrators to quickly implement robust eBusiness applications with the reliability, scalability and interoperability required by today's 24x7 Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. . These eBusiness applications powered by Documentum help more than 700 global customers dramatically improve their top line by accelerating product lifecycles, re-architecting business processes, improving operational efficiency and turning knowledge into a corporate asset. Headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif., Documentum software and services are sold through a direct sales force, systems integrators and affiliated distributors worldwide. Additional information is available at www.documentum.com. (1)Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Documentum is a trademark of Documentum, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the properties of their respective companies. |
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