FileNet Content Manager

FileNet Content Manager

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Document management with IBM® FileNet® Content Manager helps you meet the growing challenge of managing enterprise content with greater speed, efficiency and accuracy. FileNet Content Manager is a document management engine that combines enterprise content, security and storage features with ready-to-use workflow and process management capabilities.

FileNet Content Manager features include:

• A single repository for enterprise content to provide centralized access and better control.
• Document management services and application development support to streamline content management and delivery.
• Delivery of active content in motion for improved business value and reduced costs.
• Integration with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office to help increase productivity.
• Social collaboration and mobile computing support to use the latest technologies in your enterprise content management (ECM) environment.

A single repository for enterprise content

• Uses content federation services to centralize access to content from multiple IBM and third-party repositories for improved tracking and control of enterprise content in one location.
• Provides centralized access through federation of metadata from host repositories into FileNet Content Manager or by migrating content into FileNet Content Manager from a legacy repository.
• Offers a full-featured and streamlined search, repurposing and application development environment based on a unified repository and metadata model.

Document management services and application development support

• Deliver core capabilities, including document versioning, content security and lifecycle management features.
• Support a wide range of content types, including XML documents, Microsoft Office documents, web pages, photos, voice, images and process definitions and templates.
• Offer advanced features, including support for Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)-based XML.
• Use an extensible object model to allow complex taxonomy management using extensive metadata and folder organization capabilities.
• Provide application development support through proprietary and industry-standard application programming interfaces (APIs).

Delivery of active content in motion

• Provides automated workflows to improve task completion rates, enable faster task completion and help reduce processing and research costs.
• Uses event and subscription capabilities to deliver active content.
• Utilizes business rules to drive automated actions triggered by active content changes.
• Enables faster reactions to customer demands by automating processes triggered by customer events.

Integration with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office

• Allows users to author, browse and manage their FileNet Content Manager content, access their personal and public inboxes and initiate FileNet Content Manager workflows from within SharePoint.
• Provides quicker access to folders, stored searches or favorites from within Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 applications.
• Offers Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) support for easier integration of FileNet Content Manager with Microsoft SharePoint, SAP and other third-party systems.

Social collaboration and mobile computing support

• Allows you to add comments and tags to documents or other objects managed by FileNet Content Manager. Also, tracks the number of document downloads for improved audience analysis.
• Enables the streaming of large content files or enables large groups of users to retrieve the same file simultaneously.
• Shows thumbnails alongside document properties in folders and search results to help speed the discovery process.
• Provides a “lookahead count” to specify the minimum number of rows that display when performing searches with very large result sets.
• Offers iOS support for iPhones and iPads to browse, search and view content and to take photos and add them to FileNet Content Manager.

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