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posted on 23 May 2008 17:40

Mark Lewis, EMC's head of content management and archiving, produced a content and collaboration road map for EMC World attendees at Las Vegas.

Together with colleagues he outlined how Documentum and other products will develop with an emphasis on the idea of a single virtual archive repository for multiple forms of content, including email and database, and the addition of collaboration facilities for sharing archive content:-

- In calendar Q4 Documentum will get better input and output functionalities,

- Also in Q4 the Athena project will add a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and improved data capture technology

- The Janus project will add a next-generation e-mail archiving capability, covring both Exchange and Notes, functionally integrated with the existing document content archive. (Two faces: Exchange and Notes.) He called it a version of EmailXtender.

- X-Hive technology will be used to add XML capability to Documentum,

- The Documentum archive will become a records management platform,

----- It will enable federated retention services enabling document retention periods to be set in Documentum and other, linked repositories. 

- The Magellan project will enhance collaboration with Web 2.0 services added to Documentum such as blogs and wikis,

----- A basic Essentials client will enter beta test in Q3 and be free to existing Documentum users,

----- An Enterprise client is due in Q1 '09,

----- A mobile phone client will be added,

----- You will be able to mash up Google Maps with Magellan services so that you see where collaboration colleagues are.

- A Media Workspace product will enable collaborative devlopment of images amongst teams of marketeers and designers.

EMC is dead serious about extending the Documentum technology into a leading if not the leading enterprise content management platform.

^{[B&F staff.]}