EMC Delivers Documentum 6.5

By Greg McNevin

July 24, 2008: EMC is trumpeting the release of Documentum 6.5, describing the new version as content management to Web 2.0 sans enterprise risk.

The company says that Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite version 6.5 marries the experience of Web 2.0 to the strength of enterprise-class document management to strike a balance between “business agility and IT control.”

Beyond the buzz word, Web 2.0 opens up new ways for people to work and collaborate, however, security and compliance concerns are preventing many organisations from taking the plunge, or opening them up to risk.

Next to this, EMC says that the sheer volume of incoming information from new applications can be equally threatening, and requires systems scale to meet increased performance demands.

“The explosion of digital content combined with the ease of use of Web 2.0 and social computing fuel users' expectations for how technology should work and how they should access information,” says Melissa Webster, Program Vice President of Content & Digital Media Technologies at IDC. “As a result, IT is faced with a new challenge of meeting these heightened expectations while providing a secure information infrastructure.”

Webster adds that the next generation of ECM needs to provide business users with appealing and flexible content-enabled solutions while ensuring that IT continues to maintain control by mitigating these new elements of risk.

EMC says Documentum ECM 6.5 introduces enhanced XML capabilities, while delivering improved enterprise performance and scalability, federated records management as well as accelerated transactional business processes.

“We're delivering a balance of the best experience for users with the control and performance IT needs to sustain a scalable and secure information infrastructure,” says Balaji Yelamanchili, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Content Management and Archiving at EMC.

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