Software speeds delivery of business content.
Press Release Summary:
With integrated Web services support, DB2® Content Manager Enterprise Edition v8.3 provides common repository for all types of content. XML schema mapping utility enables automated XML document capture, and graphical workflow builder provides support for document routing. Software also provides Adaptive Rich Media Streaming technology, support for Oracle database, and dynamic records management framework for touch-free, automated declare/classify.
Original Press Release:
IBM DB2 Content Manager Enterprise Edition V8.3 Simplifies, Automates, and Extends the Reach of Content Applications
At a glance
DB2 Content Manager V8.3 delivers:
Web services support, including Microsoft(TM) .NET environments
XML schema mapping utility to enable automated XML document capture
Graphical workflow builder supporting and delivering major enhancements to document routing
Dynamic records management framework for touch-free, automated declare/classify
Support for Oracle database
Adaptive Rich Media Streaming (ARMS) technology
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Your IBM representative or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
Overview
To thrive in today's on demand world, companies need to get information into the hands of the right people - easily and cost effectively. With new enhancements across its content management portfolio, IBM provides a comprehensive, integrated suite of products that enable organizations to simplify content management and deliver information with on demand ease.
DB2® Content Manager Enterprise Edition V8.3 provides organizations with a common repository for all types of content. With its new enhancements, DB2 Content Manager helps improve productivity across the entire organization, eases compliance management, and speeds the delivery of business content, where and when it is needed.
Web services support provides a self-contained, self-describing, modular Web services interface to use within your applications, with other Web services, or in complex business processes to seamlessly access items stored in DB2 Content Manager. This Web services interface lets you dynamically integrate your applications with DB2 Content Manager, regardless of the programming language they were written in or the platform on which they run.
XML schema mapping utility simplifies the process of defining the DB2 Content Manager schema to support incoming XML documents adhering to specific XML schemas. Once the mapping is generated, XML documents adhering to the mapped XML schema may be captured, shredded, stored, and managed in DB2 Content Manager automatically, with no human interaction.
Integration with WebSphere® Business Integration Server Foundation (WBISF) Process Choreographer - DB2 Content Manager V8.3 includes sample code enabling integration of DB2 Content Manager with WBISF Process Choreographer. This allows processes running in WBISF Process Choreographer to interact with DB2 Content Manager to access relevant content at any step in the process.
Records management enablement delivers enhanced integration with DB2 Records Manager. This new records management enablement allows customers to electronically manage the lifecycle of their business information and ensures the automatic, consistent, and accurate records declaration and classification across all forms of business information, streamlining compliance and reducing the recordkeeping burden on end users.
DB2 Content Manager Enterprise Edition is priced to deliver total business value to the user. The current server plus concurrent user model is being replaced by an authorized user model with optional priced features. For details of the new pricing refer to the Charge structure section. For part numbers being withdrawn, refer to Software Announcement 905-058 , dated March 8, 2005.
Planned availability dates
March 25, 2005, electronic software delivery
April 22, 2005, media and documentation
