Integration of EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint

This Knowledge Sharing article presents an analysis method for a set of integration products developed by EMC to integrate EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint, with the objective to identify the most relevant characteristics of each.

The rapid adoption of SharePoint is bringing a wide range of ad hoc information sharing capabilities to Microsoft environments. SharePoint-enabled repositories that users rely on to store, organize, access, and deliver the unstructured business information they need to do their jobs have an associated cost for enterprise-wide manageability and scalability.

It is important to pay attention to the legal and regulatory requirements related to the type of information—requirements that burden information management systems. Failure to comply can lead to litigation, monetary sanctions, bad publicity, loss of trust, and negative impact on image.

Clearly, information has a potential risk of loss. Reducing and managing the risk is the realm of information governance.

The EMC Documentum platform is a pluggable enterprise solution for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) that provides a wide variety of ways to integrate with SharePoint and take advantage of the most powerful features that each solution offers. To decide which integration mechanism should be used, the core ECM customer requirements must be considered. To guide this decision, Felipe Schimith and Pablo Pilon have built a decision matrix where—with some high level inputs based on the requirements—it scores the best way to integrate using the mechanisms listed below:

• EMC My Documentum for Microsoft SharePoint 6.6

• EMC Documentum Repository Services for Microsoft SharePoint 6.6

• EMC SourceOne™ for Microsoft SharePoint 6.6

• EMC Documentum Foundation Services 6.6

This Knowledge Sharing article can serve as a guide for managers to define the best way to integrate SharePoint and Documentum technologies according to the definitions of Enterprise Architecture.

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