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Web Content Management with Documentum

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Web Content Management with Documentum

Overview of this book

One of the world leaders in Enterprise Content Management, the EMC Documentum family of applications helps you manage all types of content across multiple departments within a single repository. With the Web Content Management suite of applications, you can efficiently manage content and underlying processes for your Web properties, and ensures that they are responsive to business needs. To fully realize the power of this system can seem daunting, but this book will help you achieve that. With easy to follow examples, this book will take you the simplest and most straightforward route to success. Along the way, you will learn insights that only a seasoned professional would know. Packed with practical examples, you will get hands-on with the powerful features of Documentum to grow your skills and confidence. You will see tips and tricks to handle complexities of the system, and avoid the common errors that waste your time. From installing and getting started with Documentum, you will see how to design and develop Documentum applications, before rounding off with deployment.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Web Content Management with Documentum
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

Chapter 4. Web Content Management System

Having discussed some of the key Documentum features in the preceding chapters, let us commence our journey into the world of Documentum by helping an actual enterprise deal with the age-old problem of managing large volumes of content in the website.

It is a safe assumption that whoever is reading this book is either genuinely interested in knowing more about Documentum or perhaps needs to evaluate if it could be a good content management option to meet his or her specific business requirements.

Either way, we should first find out if there really is a need for web content management (WCM in short) in the project at hand. All WCM systems have their own share of merits and demerits. We should meticulously analyze the business requirements to verify that the business needs can be fulfilled by a good content management system.

Documentum is an enterprise content management system and offers a multitude of rich tools to cater to the needs of ever-growing...