Formerly dubbed Project Horizon, a a suite of cloud-based enterprise content managment apps have been launched by EMC Enterprise Content Division, known as the EMC LEAP family.

The EMC LEAP family will consist of both EMC and third-party content apps offered via a marketplace. They will be compatible with a range of different ECM content repositories but  engineered to work “better together” with the Documentum, says the company.

“Our goal with the EMC LEAP family is to humanize the experience of interacting with business content,” said Rohit Ghai, President of EMC’s Enterprise Content Division.

“With EMC LEAP, we’re taking an un-ECM approach; we’re focused on targeted, purpose-built and modular apps that are designed cloud-first and address both business and user requirements. 

“Beautiful, intuitive, and purpose-built apps drive engagement, which has a ripple effect. Customer engagement drives loyalty; employee engagement improves productivity; and partner and supplier engagement fosters better collaboration across the value chain. This level of engagement enables superior customer service, greater agility and new business opportunities, and is a key marker of a successful digital business.”

The five initial LEAP apps tackle typical enyterprise scenarios such as document exchange, enterprise capture, collaborative document authoring, mobile access and secure digital workflow.

Leap is built on the EMC architecture that includes Cloud Foundry, Pivotal as well as hosting with the EMC Cloud as a Software as a Service (SaaS) application as a public cloud option only.

They will be available free to existing Documentum users with general availability in the second half of 2016.

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