Documentum and EMC Deliver Content Archiving and Retrieval Solution for Compliance.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2004

EMC Proven Solution Combines Documentum Enterprise Content Management

with EMC Networked Storage and Services to Cost-Effectively Manage

and Archive Content for All Compliance Initiatives

Documentum, the leading provider of enterprise content management and a division of EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), today announced the availability of the EMC Content Archiving and Retrieval Solution (CARS) with Documentum, a comprehensive offering that helps customers meet evolving requirements of internally and externally mandated compliance initiatives. CARS with Documentum enables global organizations to intelligently manage and store large volumes of content on the most cost-effective storage platform resulting in significant cost savings.

Using CARS with Documentum, organizations can capture, manage, store, archive and ultimately dispose of all types of content, such as clinical trial information, loan applications, insurance claims, x-rays, purchase orders and hardcopy, document-based business records, while making it readily available, secure and re-usable.

An EMC Proven Solution, CARS with Documentum integrates the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform with EMC networked storage platforms and services to address various storage requirements at different stages of the information lifecycle. With this solution, customers can ensure that only highly valued content that must be immediately accessible or frequently accessed is stored on high-performance storage, while archived content with limited and infrequent user access is moved to EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) for long-term retention. CARS with Documentum is optimized for performance, security and availability, and offers comprehensive capabilities to ensure content integrity and authentication.

Global Companies Rely on Documentum and EMC for Solutions that Enable Compliance

McDATA Corporation, the expert provider of multi-capable storage networking solutions, recently deployed a solution that leverages the Documentum platform and EMC networked storage to help the company comply with the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. "McDATA is able to standardize all financial controls documentation in the Documentum repository, which also manages our audit trails and records retention rules in addition to securely storing content across our extensive EMC SAN environment. With Documentum and EMC, we expect this combined solution to become the basis for other compliance initiatives across the company," said Mike Moreno, internal auditor for McDATA.

Global organizations across all industries continue to face the challenges of achieving compliance with government regulations, corporate governance and internal requirements, while managing content across the enterprise. Designed for optimal flexibility and high scalability of compliant content, the EMC Proven Content Archiving and Retrieval Solution with Documentum includes:

-- The Documentum ECM platform -- the industry's most scalable,

open content repository that enables organizations to store

all content types; Documentum Trusted Content Services, which

provides additional security by encrypting archived content;

Documentum Records Manager, for content to be treated as

records with complete retention management capabilities and

Documentum Compliance Manager, an easy-to-use, web-based

application that enables companies to securely create, store,

share, revise, approve and distribute information within an

automated and audited environment.

-- High-volume scanning and imaging capture software from

Documentum partner, Captiva Software, and image scanning

hardware from Fujitsu-Siemens.

-- EMC Tiered Networked Storage Systems -- Based on customer

need, CARS with Documentum can include multiple EMC tiered

storage platforms, including EMC CLARiiON, EMC Symmetrix, EMC

Celerra and EMC Centera.

-- Services -- Documentum Consulting provides rapid deployment

services based on proven content management best practices, at

an aggressive pace, enabling customers to achieve corporate

objectives and compliance initiatives. EMC implementation

services are also available for the selected EMC storage

options.

"For nearly 15 years, Documentum has provided best-in-class solutions that help global customers achieve compliance with a broad range of requirements," said Dave DeWalt, president of the Documentum division of EMC. "The Content Archiving and Retrieval Solution with Documentum unites the technologies of two industry leaders, EMC and Documentum, into a proven solution for customers to reap the benefits of information lifecycle management."

CARS with Documentum is an EMC Proven Solution, which enables organizations to address their most pressing business challenges while lowering costs and improving service levels throughout the information lifecycle. Backed by stringent testing, seamless partner integration and documented implementation methodologies, EMC Proven Solutions reduce complexity and ensure faster deployment for customers. Customers can implement and benefit from Proven Solutions more quickly because EMC has completed the integration, testing and best practices.

For more information on the Content Archiving and Retrieval Solution with Documentum, please visit: http://www.documentum.com/solutions/compliance/cars_compliance.htm

About Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)

Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a process for proactive information management that enables organizations to get maximum value from its information, at the lowest total cost of ownership, at every point in the information lifecycle. EMC, together with its divisions Documentum and LEGATO, provides best-in-class ILM solutions for reducing the costs and complexity of managing information. For more information, visit: www.emc.com/ilm.

About Documentum

Documentum, a division of EMC Corporation, provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes. Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration. With a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents and discussions to email, Web pages, records and rich media. The Documentum platform makes it possible for companies to distribute all of this content in multiple languages, across internal and external systems, applications and user communities. As a result, Documentum's customers, which include thousands of the world's most successful organizations, harness corporate knowledge, accelerate time to market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance supply chain efficiencies and reduce operating costs, improving their overall competitive advantage. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at www.documentum.com.

EMC's customers are responsible for ensuring their own compliance with legal requirements. It is the customer's sole responsibility to obtain advice of competent legal counsel as to the identification and interpretation of any relevant laws and regulatory requirements that may affect the customer's business and any actions the customer may need to take to comply with such laws. EMC does not provide legal advice or represent or warrant that its services or products will ensure that the customer is in compliance with any law.

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