1.3 Why Documentum?

There are numerous content management systems existing in the market today, each offering its own specialized features. Documentum, Broadvision, Ektron products, Vignette Content products, and Interwoven product suite are some of the available content management systems in the market today. This book is not intended to highlight the benefits of using Documentum as a web content management solution vis-à-vis other available products.

Documentum provides Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions enabling diversified organizations to integrate their distributed content and related business processes on a single platform, thus uniting teams to collaboratively create, manage, process, and deliver their unstructured content. Documentum's clientele includes several big organizations that are successfully utilizing its widespread capabilities in expanding their core business by reducing their operating costs, deriving better ROIs, and achieving increased customer satisfaction by delivering just in time.

Documentum should primarily be construed as a platform that consists of a wide variety of products that collaboratively work together to provide enterprise-level content management facilities. Documentum not only provides large number of out-of-the-box (OOTB) features available in the product suite but also a customizable/configurable platform that can individually suit the specific needs of different enterprises.