IBM Content Manager Collaboration Edition

About IBM Content Manager Collaboration Edition

IBM Content Manager Collaboration Edition is an integrated bundle including best-of-breed IBM collaboration software (IBM Lotus Quickr) and IBM's industry leading IBM Content Manager product offering.

This offering extends advanced ECM capabilities to a broader audience, and introduces collaborative to the CM environment to help organizations connect the right people with the right information at the right time.

IBM Content Manager Collaboration Edition delivers an integrated end-to-end collaboration and ECM solution that allows users to:

• Incorporate existing ECM content into Lotus Quickr team spaces
• Transfer content authored in Lotus Quickr to an ECM system for storage and management
• Search ECM content from Lotus Quickr:
  • Interact with ECM content via Lotus Quickr connectors
  • Provide basic content operations as a natural extension of popular applications, such as Check-in/out, Round-trip editing, Versioning, Send/Copy Links, and Approve/Reject

Content Manager Collaboration Edition helps organizations connect the right people with the right information at the right time by:

• Making enterprise content accessible from everyday business applications, providing the ability to author and collaborate on content their familiar email and office applications
• Improving organizational agility through the use of innovative collaborative tools that integrate with a robust and extensible ECM infrastructure
• Offering a wide array of access methods
• Offering a scalable foundation for growth for organizations who wish to extend ECM functions, such as business process management, records management, and more
• Including IBM solutions that run on a wide variety of server hardware platforms and operating systems

The integration of IBM Lotus Quickr with Content Manager allows IBM to offer the most complete single-vendor end-to-end content management solution in the industry.

About IBM Content Manager Collaboration Edition

IBM FileNet Content Manager Collaboration Edition delivers an integrated end-to-end collaboration and enterprise content management solution that allows users to:

• Easily move content to and from Lotus Quickr and IBM FileNet repositories
• Search FileNet content from Quickr Web 2.0 user interface
• Use the Lotus Quickr connectors to interact with content in both Lotus Quickr and IBM FileNet Content Manager software, providing access to these repositories as a natural extension of popular applications such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Symphony

IBM FileNet Content Manager Collaboration Edition and IBM Content Manager Collaboration edition both extend ECM services and function to a broader audience. IBM FileNet Content Manager Collaboration Edition and IBM Content Manager Collaboration Edition leverage new Web service components to provide integration between best-of-breed collaboration tools of IBM Lotus Quickr and IBM's enterprise content management repositories.