EMC Documentum Client Applications

WebTop

Webtop is a WDK based application that provides comprehensive content management functionality.

CenterStage

CenterStage client comes in two flavors: CenterStage Essentials and CenterStage Pro.

CenterStage Essentials: It is a web-based client that provides basic content management features and supports collaboration.

·         Included with the Content Server licenses.

·         Provides content templates.

·         Provides easy version of ECM by hiding the complexities.

·         Access to lifecycles

·         Library Services

·         Workspace for Team

CenterStage Pro: It is a Web 2.0 client that provides features such as Wikis, blogs and RSS feeds.

·         It is available to be customized

·         Template and component based UI

·         Federated search (FS2 built in)

·         Advanced search and discovery

·         Personal space

·         A separate license is required.

My Documentum Offline

This is a client application that allows users to work with the contents while not connected to the server. It enables the download of the content from the repository on to the user’s machine. Once the desired content has been downloaded user can work as if she is online. User can add documents, folders etc. When user connects to the server again, My Documentum Offline’s synchronizing feature takes care of the changes made by her. Synchronization can happen automatically at a prescribed time or event or manually as and when required.

Initial synchronization copies the server repository folder structure for the files that you intend to edit offline into a folder called My Documentum which resides in My Documents folder on the machine.

This is a licensed product and requires the purchase of separate license.

Task Space

This is a WDK based task processing interface. It is highly configurable by application and role. Application design does not require writing and maintenance of code.

·         Facilitates task processing and document retrieval

·         Basic content management features such as Import/Export, Check in/Check Out, Version management

·         A TaskSpace application is made up of TaskSpace components. These components are special kind of template created in Forms Builder.                                                                                [Forms Builder:-  A design tool based on the WDK component framework, providing the ability to design user interfaces that permit users to interact with workflows, business processes and document retrieval.]

·         Serves as an alternative to Webtop for process-oriented applications.

·         The TaskSpace offers integrated document viewing with annotations. It comes with Adobe Acrobat Reader and High Fidelity Forms and also integrates with several third party viewers such as:

a)      Brava - supports BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PCX, PDF, PNG etc.

b)      DAEJA View One – supports GIF, JPEG, PDF, TIFF and other common imaging formats.

c)       PDF Annotation Services from EMC

d)      IE and FireFox support GIF, JPEG, PDF and PNG. While IE also supports MS Office formats also.

TaskSpace is a licensed product and requires the purchase of separate license.

Media WorkSpace

This is a Web 2.0 application built using Adobe Flex technology. It seamlessly integrates with Digital Asset Manager. At the moment its initial version supports image-centeric workflows but would be supporting video and presentation centric workflows in future versions.

Media WorkSpace requires the purchase of a separate license.

Application connectors and plug-ins

Application connectors for MS Office suite of products including Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint provides content management functionality from within Office applications. CM functionality includes Browse, Check in/Check Out, Subscription, Search etc.

Application plug-ins include File Share Services (FSS) and Documentum Authoring Integration Services (FTP and WebDAV – Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning).

Digital Asset Manager

Digital Asset Manager helps in management of digital assets like videos, audio files, product images, animation videos, power point presentations etc. This is a web-based client and requires the purchase of a separate license.

In addition to webtop’s features, DAM offers following additional features that are tailored to digital media content management:

·         Content publishing workflow management

·         Thumbnail previews

·         Video storyboarding

·         Video details and annotation

List of client applications that use Service-based Business Object (SBO):

Business Process Services (BPS), Documentum Foundation Services (DFS), Webtop with queue management/presets enabled, Webtop, DAM or any WDk based application with collaborative edition (separate license feature) enabled.