Content Manager Enterprise Edition

Content Manager Enterprise Edition manages all types of content - document images, electronic office documents, XML, audio, video - with support for a breadth of platforms, databases, and applications. It is a platform that delivers maximum flexibility, accelerates application deployment, and lowers total cost of ownership.

Version 8.4.2 delivers advanced document handling capabilities, integration enhancements with FileNet Business Process Manager (BPM), along with improvements in performance, consumability, and serviceability.

• Delivers the repository services and infrastructure platform for IBM Content Management solutions such as production imaging, case management, and compliance in a regulated life sciences environment, compliance with records management, document lifecycle management, e-mail management for Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange Server, digital media and Web content management.

• Offers a powerful and expressive XML-ready data model, Java, C++, and Web Services programming interfaces, and an integrated hierarchical storage manager that supports hundreds of storage devices and media types.

• Scales horizontally and vertically, from Windows through mainframes, with enterprise features such as replication to store and manage objects in multiple locations and application-transparent content caching.

• Provides the unified infrastructure platform with full repository services to fully manage all types of both structured and unstructured content as an integral part of the Agile ECM framework.

IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition V8.4.2 rolls up a number of incremental enhancements from V8.4.1 and adds support for new levels of prerequisite software, while providing for an upgrade path with no migration requirements. Updates include:

• Enhanced document handling capabilities
  - Synchronized scrolling support
  - Improved thumbnail navigation

• FileNet BPM integration enhancements
  - New document event support
  - Support for system defined attributes
  - Better administration and management capabilities

• 64 bit library server support on AIX, Solaris SPARC, and x86 Linux

• Improved API logging

• Security enhancements

• Error handling improvements

• Availability of the Content Manager Starter Pack
  - Full capabilities at an introductory price
  - Allows for trade up licensing

• Upgrades directly from V8.3, V8.4, and V8.4.1 with no migration

• Platform supports updates including:
  - DB2 9.7
  - TSM 6.1