Content-Management Software streamlines information sharing.

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DB2® Content Manager and Lotus® Workplace Web Content Management for DB2 Content Manager offer scalable enterprise content management solution. Combination allows users to deploy Web-content management solution and enable links that tie to latest version of content in enterprise repository. Users can set up Web sites that speed interaction between corporate workers, suppliers, partners, agents, and brokers through sharing core business documents.



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IBM DB2 Content Manager for Multiplatforms now includes Lotus Workplace Web Content Management for DB2 Content Manager for Streamlined Operations at Reduced Costs


At a glance

Lotus Workplace Web Content Management1 for DB2 Content Manager combined with DB2 Content Manager offers the most comprehensive, scalable, enterprise content management solution on the market offered by a single vendor.

This powerful combination lets you:

Deploy a Web content management solution quickly for a faster return on investment.

Enable Web content links that tie to the latest version of content in the Content Manager enterprise content repository.

Offer faster deployment of new products, offerings, and promotions by unleashing knowledgeable workers within the enterprise to contribute their own approved content to Web sites.

Set up Web sites that speed up the interaction between corporate workers, suppliers, partners, agents, and brokers through the sharing of core business documents.

For ordering, contact:

Your IBM representative or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

The combined DB2® Content Manager and Lotus® Workplace Web Content Management for DB2 Content Manager make it possible for IBM to offer the most comprehensive, scalable, enterprise content management solution on the market from a single vendor.

Customers can now leverage their enterprise content to the greatest possible advantage, streamlining operations, reducing costs, strengthening customer and partner relationships, and producing a rapid return on their information. Thousands of hours can be saved because Web content creation is simplified and streamlined, allowing content experts to build entire sites using powerful content templates and reusable components without development skills.

The combination of DB2 Content Manager and Lotus Workplace Web Content Management for DB2 Content Manager delivers the industry's best technology and resources for content management and integration with Web and e-business applications. This combination enables customers to capture, manage, and repurpose all forms of content across diverse applications, business processes, and platforms and deliver integrated, consistent, and on demand information to customers, partners, and employees.

Lotus Workplace Web Content Management for DB2 Content Manager addresses three major concerns within an enterprise:

The explosive growth of business content

The complexity and cost of managing content

The dramatic increase in the content user community

Together with DB2 Content Manager, Lotus Workplace Web Content Management enables non-technical users to combine the collaborative authoring of Web content management with the ability to integrate and leverage content from multiple applications and business processes. This promotes content re-use (instead of recreation) and control over the quality and consistency of content published to a portal or a Web site.

IBM is committed to open standards and delivering solutions that enable customers to leverage common infrastructure and achieve a lower cost of ownership. Lotus Workplace Web Content Management for DB2 Content Manager delivers built-in integration across the WebSphere®, Lotus, and DB2 Information Management portfolio of solutions. IBM will also continue to work with other Web content management providers for which our customers have a preference.

Key prerequisites

For a list of supported platforms, refer to the Hardware requirements section.

Planned availability dates

September 10, 2003: Electronic Software Delivery (eSD)

October 15, 2003: Media Pack on CD-ROM

1.0 IBM acquired Presence Online (dba Aptrix) on July 15, 2003. In this acquisition IBM also acquired the products and technology of Aptrix which is the foundation for Lotus Workplace Web Content Management.

Description

Lotus Workplace Web Content Management for DB2 Content Manager can easily help integrate people with the process of Web content development, delivering vital information in just minutes, not days, without specialized programming. It can also integrate supported front-end with back-end systems to help streamline e-business applications while offering powerful point-and-click Web site component and portlet creation for your staff.

Lotus Workplace Web Content Management for DB2 Content Manager aggregates content from DB2 Content Manager, Lotus Notes®, and SQL repositories and can merge it within another look and feel. For example, you can merge content and functionality within design templates to help ensure consistency with other portal or Web site content. It can also personalize the delivery of managed content and assets from Internet, intranet, and extranet sites. The simple, yet powerful, point-and-click interface enables users to rapidly create Web site components (that is, Web pages or navigation components) and portlets that personalize information without the legacy of specialized programming. Content can be rapidly channeled into the Web site or portal without the need for specialized skills.

DB2 Content Manager delivers the industry's most scalable and extensible enterprise content manager repository today. Delivering the services needed to capture, store, and manage content of all forms including: images, documents, video, audio, and Web content. With the inclusion of Lotus Workplace Web Content Management for DB2 Content Manager customers may exploit their enterprise content management solution, built on DB2 Content Manager, by storing and managing all Web content created through the Lotus Workplace Web Content Management tool. Users who wish to reuse any content stored in DB2 Content Manager may readily search for, retrieve, and update the content and then publish the modified content to another site or portal instance. To the end user working in the Lotus Workplace Web Content Management user interface, the interaction with DB2 Content Manager is seamless and transparent. All DB2 Content Manager services are available to the enterprise to secure, protect, and maintain the content created, including the extended features of DB2 Content Manager such as DB2 Records Manager. No other solution delivers this level of power and extensibility.

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