Manage and share content using social collaboration and mobile capabilities.
IBM® FileNet® Content Manager brings the latest technologies in social collaboration and mobile computing to enterprise content management. FileNet Content Manager extends enterprise content,management with easy-to-use social collaboration capabilities and leverages the flexibility of mobile computing to untether users from their desktop devices when desired.
FileNet Content Manager features include:
- A single repository for enterprise content management to provide centralized access and better control.
- Document management services to streamline content management and delivery.
- Delivery of active content in motion for improved business value and reduced costs.
- Integration with Microsoft® SharePoint® and Microsoft Office to help increase productivity.
- DITA support to improve productivity for advanced document management.
- Content federation to manage content in place, or to migrate content when the time it right.
- Social collaboration capabilities enable the repository to track and manage social interaction around managed content.
- Mobile computing brings enterprise content management capabilities to your mobile device for content access when you want, where you want.
- Application development support through proprietary and industry-standard APIs
A single repository for enterprise content management
- Uses content federation services to centralize access to content from multiple IBM and third-party repositories for improved tracking and control of enterprise content in one location.
- Provides centralized access through federation of metadata or content migtraion from disparate repositories into FileNet Content Manager.
Document management services
- Delivers core capabilities, including document versioning, content security and lifecycle management features.
- Supports a wide range of content types, including XML documents, Microsoft Office documents, web pages, photos, voice, images and process definitions and templates.
- Offers advanced features, including support for Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)-based XML.
- Uses an extensible object model to allow complex taxonomy management using extensive metadata and folder organization capabilities.
Delivery of active content in motion
- Provides automated “review-and-approve” document workflows to improve task completion rates, enable faster task completion and help reduce processing and research costs.
- Uses event and subscription capabilities to deliver active content.
- Utilizes business rules to drive automated actions triggered by active content changes.
- Enables faster reactions to customer demands by automating processes triggered by customer events.
Integration with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office
- Allows users to author, browse and manage their FileNet Content Manager content, and workflows from within the Microsoft SharePoint user interface.
- Provides quick and easy access to content stored in FileNet Content Manager without users having to leave the familiar user interfaces of Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 applications.
- Offers Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) support for easier integration of FileNet Content Manager with Microsoft SharePoint, SAP® and other third-party systems.
DITA support
- DITA is the OASIS standard for designing, authoring, and publishing modular information - technical publications, help sets, or Web sites
- DITA is a markup language, providing topics for content, maps for collecting and publishing content
- DITA is an architecture; specialized to create new types of topics and maps, with inheritance of existing processing
- FileNet Content Manager supports the DITA standard to enable hundreds or even thousands of subject matter experts to collaborate in the creation of complex documents intended for eventual publication in various print and online media
Content Federation
- Enables the management of content in place from multiple, diverse repositories
- Provides a cost-effective content management solution when content migration is not the best solution, yet includes content migration capabilities when the time is right for migration.
- Content Federation Services are available for FileNet Content Services, FileNet Image Services, IBM FileNet Content Manager, IBM Content Manager and IBM Content Manager OnDemand.
Social collaboration capabilities
The following Social content management capabilities are enhancements to version 5.2 which enable the repository to track and manage social interaction around managed content. They are delivered as extensions to the repository capabilities, its data model, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
Note: At the time of general availability they are not exposed as user facing capabilities.
- User comments on managed object.
This feature provides users with the ability to add comments to documents and other objects managed by FileNet Content Manager. Users can add multiple comments or view the comment stream associated with any managed object. - Social tagging of managed object.
This feature provides users with the ability to add tags to documents and other objects managed by FileNet Content Manager, making it easier to find objects at a later date without having to sift through directory structures. Users can add tags or view the tags associated with any managed object. - Tracking document download.
This feature provides users with the ability to see how many and which users are downloading specific documents from the repository. This enables document owners to understand the audience of documents they manage, and consumers to understand the relevance of documents to their peers. - Ability for users to recommend a documen.
This feature provides users with the ability to recommend individual documents in the repository and to see the aggregate of multiple recommendations in order to understand how a document is rated by its consumers. - Large content streaming and large numbers of downloading user.
This feature provides the ability to enable an optimized cache targeted at very large groups of users simultaneously retrieving the same content files or the optimized streaming of large individual files. - Document thumbnail service.
This capability adds a configurable service, which generates and persists thumbnails of documents as they are added to the repository, as well as the ability to add thumbnails to existing documents. This feature provides users with the option to view thumbnails alongside document properties in folders and search results. This provides more contextual information, thereby speeding and simplifying the discovery process when looking for specific documents. - User centric recycle bin for deletion and recovery of document.
This feature provides users with a recycle bin for deleted documents. Items placed in the recycle bin can be deleted and purged later on, or if a document is needed before being purged, it can be recovered from the recycle bin without administrator intervention. - Search result count.
When performing searches with large result sets, this new capability returns a "lookahead count", determining the minimum number of rows in the result set. - Content Search Services support for Roshal ARchive (RAR.
Content Search Services can now index and search the contents of compressed archive files that use the .rar filename extension. These compressed archive files can be stored in the repository in their compressed state without the need for prior extraction. The new functionality makes it possible to search for and discover documents in the compressed files. A common case for this is RAR attachments for emails archived using IBM Content Collector. - Content Search Services support for XML namespace and dat.
Content Search Services delivers the ability to search on many aspects of the structure of XML files. This release enhances current capabilities by adding the ability to query on XML namespaces and date elements.
Mobile computing
- iOS support for iPhones and iPads provides browse, search and view capabilities.
- Mobile device camera can be used to take photos and add them to FileNet Content Manager directly from your iPhone and iPad.
Application development support
- FileNet APIs provide extensive support for programmatic access to the capabilities of FileNet Content Manager.
- Content Navigator components provide a rich environment for rapid application development.
- CMIS support provides industry-standard API access to content residing in FileNet Content Manager.
FileNet Content Manager
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The following components are included with IBM FileNet Content Manager at no charge:
- Content Federation Services lets customers manage content in place by federating or moving content into FileNet Content Manager.
- Content Navigator is the new IBM ECM user experience. It uses HTML5 and has a customizable toolkit.
- CFS for FileNet Image Services (product) supports bidirectional synchronization (including annotations)
- FileNet Integration for Microsoft Office (FIMO) makes FileNet Content Manager capabilities accessible from within Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- FileNet Collaboration Services gives IBM Connections users integrated access to FileNet Content Manager through the IBM Connections user interface.
- SharePoint Web Parts gives Windows SharePoint users direct access to documents and process management activities provided by IBM ECM.
- Tivoli Directory Server (product) is included in a limited use version for TDS authentication and authorization services.
- WebSphere Application Server (product) is included in a limited use version.
- DB2 (product) is included in a limited use version.
- Workplace XT is an intuitive business user interface to access content and process management related features.
- Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a uniform means for applications to work with content repositories.
- DITA Data Model allows customers to extend ECM support into component based content management through SGML, HTML, XML, PDF, HAT, DITA.
Content Federation Services
- Federates content from heterogeneous repositories into FileNet Content Manager, providing full lifecycle management for creation, editing and approval, publishing, storage, retention and delete operations.
- Places metadata from disparate content repositories into the FileNet P8 platform's content engine master catalog to make metadata available to IBM and other applications that use application programming interfaces (APIs) for the FileNet P8 platform.
- Offers the option for users to work from within their existing interfaces to lessen the need for training and support.
- Enforces records management policies across repositories and in response to business events automatically.
- Provides integrated search capabilities with business applications so users can find content throughout the enterprise with greater ease.
FileNet Integration for Microsoft Office (FIMO)
- Integrates with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, to make it easier to use ECM features from within commonly used business applications.
- Provides access to the most relevant ECM features without compromising usability.
- Offers hierarchical folder navigation within the task pane of each Office application for quick access to ECM folders, stored searches or favorites in FileNet Content Manager.
- Enables changes to documents, metadata and security settings with version control.
- Sends documents through automated approval workflows and provides an integrated inbox to deliver email notifications of required reviews.
FileNet Collaboration Services
- Integrates IBM Connections collaboration tools and content with IBM FileNet Content Manager to deliver advanced content, compliance and business process management functions with intuitive Web 2.0 capabilities.
- Supports search and discovery of IBM Connections and ECM content from a IBM Connections interface with seamless access to business documents throughout the organization.
- Manages your organization's content as a security-rich corporate asset in an ECM system in accordance with content discovery, auto classification, and compliance and retention policies.
- Enables you to use collaborative content from IBM Connections in the FileNet ECM repository and use ECM content inside a IBM Connections team workspace.
- Extends advanced ECM services and functions to a broader base of deployments, supporting collaboration services and document management in Microsoft Windows and WebSphere® Portal infrastructures.
SharePoint Web Parts
- Extends Microsoft SharePoint providing users direct access to documents and process management activities provided by FileNet content management through the Windows SharePoint environment.
- Enables management via a single enterprise catalog: Content moved/archived into a FileNet Content Manager repository allows robust management of content, processes, records and email throughout the complete lifecycle – from creation through final disposition – regardless of where they are created, e.g. SharePoint. IBM connects to existing Microsoft SharePoint repositories to better manage content and mitigate compliance risk across the enterprise.
- Provides advanced content management capabilities: Content originally created in SharePoint, now managed by FileNet Content Manager, supports document level security, major/minor versioning, cross-vendor enterprise search capabilities (content federation), as well as the ability to restore a single document and/or folder and makes content available via web 2.0 style clients, e.g. FileNet Workplace XT.
Workplace XT
- Enables access to all content and process management related features relevant to the business user. The browser-based implementation has rich desktop features (drag-and-drop, right-mouse-click menus) that make it easy for the average user to get the best out of IBM FileNet products.
- Provides access to key enterprise content management (ECM) features within standard browsers -- like document level security, versioning, inbox, and favorites, support for records management, life cycle support, search, federation and more.
DITA Data Models
FileNet Content Manager supports the DITA data model allowing customers the ability to extend ECM support into component based content management through the following applications.
- SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) was the outcome of IBM research starting in the 1960's when IBM was doing working on a generalized representation of text. Out of that research ANSI introduced the first version of the SGML in 1978 which later became an ISO Standard in 1986 (ISO 8879:1986
- HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is one of the first significant SGML spin offs. HTML was developed out of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) by Tim Berner Lee as a means for people in the physics community to communicate.
- XML (Extensible Markup Language) is another significant development that originated from SGML. While HTML was designed to help describe how content is displayed XML describes data.
- PDF (Portable Document Format). Where HTML and XML dynamically display content via the web, PDF also helps convert paper based content into device independent content that can be delivered via the web but is not dependent on web technology.
- HAT (Help Authoring Tool) is yet another popular method of creating on-line content; it's primarily used by software applications.
- DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is another standard that was originally developed by IBM. It is used today to produce all of the content formats mentioned above.
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