Content Manager Enterprise Edition

New and existing customers have multiple options for integrating IBM Content Manager and Lotus Quickr.

• Content Manager Services for Lotus Quickr is an adaptable web service component that integrates Lotus Quickr collaboration tools and IBM Content Manager.
• Content Manager Collaboration Edition is an integrated bundle including Lotus Quickr and a restricted version of IBM Content Manager.

Content Manager Services for Lotus Quickr helps today’s knowledge workers leverage intuitive Web 2.0 and familiar office/desktop user interfaces for collaboration while taking advantage of the advanced content, compliance and business process management functions available with IBM Content Manager. The integration between Lotus Quickr and Content Manager:

• Enables the discovery of enterprise content and provides seamless access to business documents across the organization. It leverages collaboration tools and every day business applications such as e-mail, Microsoft Office, etc.
• Manages your organization’s content as a secure corporate asset in an enterprise content management (ECM) system, allowing content to participate in Business Process Management, and to be managed in accordance with content discovery, auto classification and compliance/retention policies

The Services allow users to:

• Transfer collaborative content from Lotus Quickr to an ECM repository
• Incorporate existing ECM content inside a Lotus Quickr team place
• Search Lotus Quickr and ECM content from a Lotus Quickr user interface
• Use the Lotus Quickr connectors to interact with content in both Lotus Quickr and IBM Content Manager
• Extend advanced ECM services and function to broader content and collaboration deployments

The integration of IBM Lotus Quickr with IBM Content Manager provides the most complete end-to-end content management solution in the industry. For customers who have a license for both Lotus Quickr and IBM Content Manager, IBM Content Manager Services for Lotus Quickr is included at no additional charge.

IBM Content Manager Collaboration Edition enables users to collaborate on business content with Lotus Quickr while leveraging IBM Content Manager for its scalability, high-availability and multi-platform support. It is specifically intended for organizations that want to leverage the capabilities of ECM via the Lotus Quickr user interfaces.

Content Manager Collaboration Edition provides users with seamless access to enterprise content across the organization, using their everyday desktop applications such as email, Windows Explorer, desktop productivity tools like Lotus Symphony and Microsoft Office, as well as Content Manager Collaboration Edition provides users with seamless access to enterprise content across the organization, using their everyday desktop applications such as email, Windows Explorer, desktop productivity tools like Lotus Symphony and Microsoft Office, as well as from the intuitive, easy-to-use browser interface of Lotus Quickr.

• Read the Collaboration Edition Announcement Letter (111KB)