EMC unveils content management alliance with Adobe
EMC unveils content management alliance with Adobe
Sep 30, 2005: EMC has disclosed details of joint technology venture with Adobe Systems, which will see the two companies develop a standards-based interoperable content management infrastructure.
The new infrastructure will combine EMC's enterprise content management (ECM) platform and Adobe's open standard XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) technology to maximize distributed information sharing and management, enabling customers to manage data more intelligently and efficiently.
The collaboration will also support the emerging iECM (Interoperable Enterprise Content Management) standard being developed by AIIM (The Association for Information and Image Management), an international organisation focused on helping users understand challenges associated with managing documents, content, and business processes. The iECM framework will address the growing need for a common integration layer between different enterprise content management systems and multiple business applications. It will include support for major industry standards such as SOAP, WSDL, BPEL, JCR (JSR-170) and others, organising them in the context of content-rich application requirements.
"Enterprise customers increasingly want to be able to integrate content into business processes, creating the need for a common set of standards for accessing, exchanging, managing and integrating structured and unstructured content," said Howard Shao, senior vice president, EMC Software Group. "EMC's membership and active participation in the AIIM iECM committee, and its joint development efforts with Adobe, demonstrate our commitment to making this a reality for our customers."
"The combination of the open Adobe XMP framework and EMC's comprehensive content management platform represents a powerful solution to deliver information systems for customers to integrate rich content into enterprise workflows," said John Brennan, senior vice president, Corporate Development at Adobe. "This joint effort represents a strategic opportunity for both companies to work together on advancing metadata standardisation and next-generation content and information sharing systems and infrastructures."
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