CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 February 2007
Product News
IBM Launches IBM FileNet Content Manager 4.0
FileNet, an IBM company, announced general availability of IBM FileNet Content Manager 4.0, with enhanced functionality and platform support, improved scalability, and capabilities aimed at offering more flexible and centralized IT deployment.
FileNet Content Manager is an enterprise Content Management solution for managing any type of digital content which uniquely combines document management with out-of-the-box workflow and process capabilities to activate documents and content by delivering the right content to the right place at the right time - to support the decision making process of an organization.
New features in Content Manager 4.0 include a new, re-architected J2EE Content Engine that runs on seven major operating systems including Windows, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Linux and continuing support for DB2, SQL Server and Oracle. The J2EE content engine offers a robust and familiar infrastructure for Enterprise operations and system management staff, enabling Content Manager 4.0 to be seamlessly integrated into customers existing IT infrastructures and providing lower total cost of ownership.
"Content Manager 4.0 accelerates the deployment of all types of business content, enhancing the collaborative contributions from individuals and departments with specialized expertise," said Lee Roberts, general manager, Content Management, for IBM. "Armed with the latest and most relevant information and a richer business context, workers at all levels of the organization can make better faster decisions that are in the best interest of the business and its customers."
A recent IBM FileNet P8 4.0 Content Engine performance study produced top-end retrieval rates exceeding 6 million documents per hour, and top-end ingestion rates exceeding 4 million documents per hour.
Additionally, Content Manager 4.0 boasts significant enhancements and support for industry standard , open security and single sign on (SSO) protocols through support for Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS). Content Manager 4.0 now supports IBM Tivoli Directory Server and Tivoli Access Manager, and leverages J2EE and Web Services standards to easily integrate into SSO products in use today.
Content Manager 4.0 offers a rich compound document model for managing complex documents, streamlining the authoring, translation, review and publishing processes, and enabling organizations to dynamically publish documentation that is accurate, consistent, relevant, and cost-effective. The compound document engine is ideal for production document generation in regulated industries or where complex documents with long lifespans are required. The new Content Manager 4.0 compound document model enables partners such as Document Sciences and Thunderhead to offer new capabilities to our mutual customers.
Content Manager 4.0 is optimized for high performance in a widely distributed enterprise and provides highly-flexible, distributed content caching for improved performance across remote sites. Content Manager 4.0 also supports concurrent deployment of a wide variety of user interfaces and end user interaction models that improve efficiency and decision-making at all levels within an organization.
Additionally, Content Manager 4.0 expands on IBM FileNet Content Federation Services for third-party repositories, enabling enterprises to search, catalog, classify, secure, retain, comply, activate, update and delete content residing in repositories across the enterprise.
Content Manager 4.0 also features expanded support for federated annotations -- items such as electronic "sticky notes," rubber stamps, and comments -- that often contain critical information to an organization's business processes. Annotations to content in existing FileNet imaging optimized systems can now be viewed by FileNet P8 users, further extending the value in existing customer investments.
Pricing and Availability
Content Manager 4.0 is now shipping. For more information, please contact 1-800-FILENET.
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