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ECM: Embedded Content Management — A first?
EMC made quite a splash in the press just prior to the Thanksgiving holiday with their announcement of an embeddable version of Documentum, their ECM product. The new offering is the EMC Documentum® OEM Edition, specifically tailored towards OEMs and ISVs.
EMC is calling this the “world’s first embeddable Enterprise Content Management (ECM)” platform. But it’s hard to see what’s so revolutionary about their announcement or how they can claim to be the first embeddable platform. The announcement seems to be more related to marketing and packaging than to true new functionality. Most likely the announcement is an attempt to position themselves to better compete with Oracle’s Content DB strategy. With Content DB, Oracle provides a platform with ready-made ECM infrastructure components tightly bound to their Oracle RDBMS.
EMC’s Belaji Yelamanchili, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Content Management and Archiving, says that “Partners use off-the-shelf databases for structured information, and similarly, their needs are better served by using an off-the-shelf content platform”. Check. I agree fully with that. That’s the strategy we’ve used at Formtek for years.
Formtek has worked with our partners, both domestically and internationally, for many years, providing a solid, secure and very scalable ECM engine that is used as an ’embeddable’ platform within the content-rich vertical applications created by our partners. The programmable Formtek engine has SDK interfaces available via Java API, Web Services, CLIs for shell and batch program scripting, and JSP tag libraries. More information about the Formtek partner program can be found here.
