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Documentum Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide

By : Pawan Kumar
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Documentum Content Management Foundations: EMC Proven Professional Certification Exam E20-120 Study Guide

By: Pawan Kumar

Overview of this book

This is a complete study guide including study material and practice questions to prepare for the EMC Proven Professional certification Exam E20-120. It can also serve Documentum beginners and practitioners as a handy guide and quick reference to the technical fundamentals that is fully up to date for Documentum 5.3. Beginners are introduced to concepts in a logical manner while practitioners can use it as a reference to jump to relevant concepts directly.EMC Documentum is a leading enterprise content management technology platform that helps enterprises to streamline the capture, processing, and distribution of business information including documents, records, e-mails, web content, images, reports, and digital assets. It can also automate entire business processes in accordance with business rules. EMC Proven Professional is an exam-based certification program, which introduced a new EMC Proven Content Management Application Developer (EMCAD) track in early 2007. The first exam in this track is Content Management Foundations (CMF) Associate-level Exam, with exam code E20-120, which tests knowledge about technical fundamentals of Documentum. This book is a study guide to help you prepare for this exam with hundreds of practice questions and an efficient exam-preparation strategy.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Documentum Content Management Foundations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Workflows and Customization


Workflows form a key component of Documentum customization. Workflow templates are usually bundled with other customization components in DocApps (See Chapter 10 for details).

A business process can be automated using Documentum in the following manner:

  1. 1. Analyze: The information is gathered about the business process to be automated.

  2. 2. Model: Each process to be automated is modeled in terms of activities, performers, flows, and packages.

  3. 3. Define: The model is formalized as a workflow template using Workflow Manager. The template is validated and installed in the desired repository.

    Note

    Workflow Manager is the desktop tool for visually designing workflows and is installed by the DAB installer. Business Process Manager (BPM) is a separate product that offers enhanced features for designing workflow templates.

  4. 4. Use: Business users with appropriate access start creating workflow instances from the workflow template. Various performers participate in...