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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

4.11 Summary


We started off this chapter describing scenarios where a web content management (WCM) system should be used in a business application and where it should be avoided. WCM systems add value to organizations that have content-heavy websites that need to be updated with business-critical data at any given point of time, without the dependence on IT staff. On the other hand, organizations that require infrequent updates to their websites and do not have the capacity or the budget for training and CMS infrastructure costs should not use WCM systems.

We went ahead to discuss a sample WCM architecture using the Documentum product suite consisting of entities and tools such as Web Publisher, Content Server, Documentum Administrator, Content Rendition Services, Site Caching Services, Documentum JDBC Services, and Site Deployment Services.

Content Server, discussed in the earlier chapters, is the foundation of Documentum architecture, providing the basic content management services required...