Enterprise content management solutions

Better decisions, faster

IBM FileNet Content Manager

Highlights

■ Starter Pack option provides

a full-function solution that
delivers a rapid return on
investment

■ Provides Agile ECM capabilities

through support of active
content, Content AnyWhere
feature and a pervasive &
persuasive user experience

■ Helps improve the quality of

Improving business decisions by and process to substantially improve
decisions by providing the
managing information the availability and agility of content in
right information when it’s
Thousands of decisions, large and your business functions.
needed
small, are being made across your
business every day. Each one affects FileNet Content Manager combines
■ Makes content more accessible,
your short-term effectiveness and comprehensive content management
secure and manageable to
long-term success. Improving the functions with specialized document
support business initiatives
quality of those decisions begins with management capabilities to gain
■ Delivers active content that having the right information—when it’s active control over your unstructured
can drive process automation, needed. This information is contained corporate assets.
reducing time, cost and risk in numerous forms of content spread
across your organization. Managing Meeting the growing challenge of
■ Delivers solid ROI, as this content is essential to the success handling enterprise content
demonstrated by real-world of your business. Based on IBM’s experience, this
deployments unstructured information represents
IBM FileNet® Content Manager 80 percent of your total information.
■ DITA support makes creation
software conquers these challenges Worse, it is growing at more than 75
of technical publications faster
by combining the power of content percent per year.
and less expensive
Regardless of the content format, • Leverage content across multiple processes in motion and drive them
managing and making intelligent use legacy repositories quickly to completion, increasing the
of the information contained within an • Enhance information security, overall responsiveness and agility of
organization has become a necessary accuracy and regulatory your business.
element of enterprise compliance and, consequently,
competitiveness. Simply stated, reduce and better manage risk Enterprise Compliance - provided
content must be easily accessible, • Extract the information and by ECM risk and compliance
protected and placed under full life- knowledge contained in your solutions, leverages the core
cycle and compliance management to documents and other content capabilities of IBM FileNet Content
support critical business initiatives. • Extend the reach of Manager, such as document
information wherever and versioning, and lifecycle
Achieving real-world results that whenever it is needed management.
deliver proven ROI • Leverage existing investments by
The active content capabilities of joining disconnected systems so they Pervasive and Persuasive User
FileNet Content Manager have can share content Experience - IBM FileNet
delivered a significant return on Content Manager comes bundled with
investment (ROI) for organizations Providing and supporting Agile ECM WorkPlace XT, an out-of-the-box user
worldwide, and deployments have capabilities interface designed for the business
yielded a wide range of benefits as: IBM FileNet Content Manager user. It also supports a variety of other
• Processing work faster while provides or underpins many facets of user interface tools such as portals,
significantly reducing processing Agile ECM. integration with collaboration tools,
costs integration with Office 2007,
• Improving productivity by Content AnyWhere - The Content providing a pervasive and persuasive
drastically reducing the time spent Federation Services feature bundled user experience.
looking for information in IBM FileNet Content Manager
• Delivering substantial reductions in enables federation of content from Universal content types - stores
fixed costs multiple IBM and 3rd party virtually any kind of digitized
repositories, providing centralized information, including Microsoft®
Enabling more informed access to federated content. Content Office documents, XML documents,
decisions—in less time AnyWhere means that customers can Web pages, photos, images, sound,
When it comes down to the moment choose to manage content in-place, process definitions and templates,
of decision, you need the right postpone or avoid costly content content components and associated
information. That moment happens migrations, yet still standardize on P8. metadata descriptors. Manages the
in an instant—thousands of times a content and the associated metadata
day. FileNet Content Manager can Active Content - IBM FileNet Content not simply as static items, but as
help ensure that the right information Manager provides sophisticated event individual business objects.
is available when it’s needed most. Its and subscription capabilities so that a
capabilities can help your business: variety of actions associated with Enterprise search capabilities -
• Reduce the costs associated with content can trigger pre-defined enables end users to simultaneously
managing and accessing all forms actions, transforming content into search content categories, other
of content active content, enabling automation to metadata definitions and
• React immediately to customer drive down costs throughout the unstructured text using a single query.
demands by automating processes organization. Your business can Allows content searches across
triggered by business and customer respond immediately to the business federated repositories even when the
events and transaction events that set critical user does not know where the content
is stored.

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Document management services - Interoperability with world-class translation, resulting in even greater
streamlines document FileNet imaging - leverages IBM savings. Relationships between
management tasks by providing FileNet Image Manager Active Edition components is mapped using DITA,
mature versioning and parent-child software to provide power, scalability so the integrity of content strucuture is
capabilities, compound document and performance that gives maintained.
handling and integrated publishing thousands of users rapid access to
support. Comes with pre-configured, billions of fixed objects, such as IBM FileNet Content Manager Starter
customizable document wizards. documents, reports, print streams, Pack
Supports standards-based content faxes, e-mail and rich media. The IBM FileNet® Content Manager
(such as XML) to allow flexible Starter Pack is one of four full-featured
document composition. Seamless ECM integration - ECM packages from IBM targeted for
provides the content management smaller or departmental deployments,
Full life-cycle management - capabilities that all IBM FileNet P8 allowing you to purchase just the right
enables management and control of offerings utilize, enabling offerings number of licenses to meet your
the content life cycle to help improve to share the same content, metadata current needs, which can help you
efficiency and support compliance in and policies in an environment where realize a more rapid ROI. Plus, you
content-related tasks such as functionality and offerings are can scale the solution up to a full
publishing, expiration and retention. inherently integrated. enterprise deployment at any time
Maintains audit trails to help meet as your business grows. With the
regulatory mandates. Enables FileNet Content Manager provides IBM FileNet® Content Manager
management of the content life cycle comprehensive content Starter Pack, you get out-of-the-box
at the software, not hardware, level to management capabilities along with enterprise content management
provide and promote choices in process management and capabilities in tiered user license
storage policies and platforms. connectivity to existing systems. configurations, making it an excellent
Expanded ECM capabilities can be fit for smaller companies or single
Transformation and rendition easily added for records departments.
services - provides automated management, large volumes of fixed
content publishing into multiple documents, and for enhanced Platform
universal formats such as HTML and process management and Operating systems
portable document format (PDF). connectivity. IBM AIX®, Microsoft Windows®, Sun
Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux®,
Unified repository and metadata DITA support – speeds and simplifies Novell SUSE Linux and zLinux
model - delivers a single, unified the creation of technical publications platforms
content repository and metadata such as product documentation, user Databases
model virtually regardless of the type guides and maintenance manuals. IBM DB2®, Microsoft SQL Server and
of digital content being managed. Content is componentized, enabling Oracle Database systems
Uses a common metadata model to it to be created once, and published Security services
provide a comprehensive and multiple times in different media IBM Tivoli® Access Manager, IBM
streamlined environment for searches, (printed documents, web pages, help Tivoli Directory Server, CA eTrust
and speeds application development files, etc). Re-use not only prevents SiteMinder, Microsoft Active Directory,
by providing common API access to duplicate authoring but also duplicate Novell eDirectory, Sun Java™ System
all content in a master catalog. Directory Server and Kerberos
services

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Content help lower total cost of ownership
• Enterprise catalog management (TCO). IBM solutions provide
• Specialized document management interoperability to a wide selection of
tools database, operating system, storage,
• Robust library services security and Web server
• Extensive classification capabilities environments. FileNet Content
Process Manager is an ECM solution that can
• Specialized document versioning help organizations manage complex
• Audit and logging tracking documents and control, share and
• Integrated business process quickly access virtually any form of
mangement (BPM) managed content in a security-rich and highly
content/process flows scalable environment. It activates
critical business content to deliver the
Related Offerings right information when it matters most.
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