EMC offers Documentum in the Cloud and on the iPad
November 04, 2011 | Author: Michael Stromann
It's always a pleasure to watch, when a software giant's senior manager is talking from the stage that: "guys, customers do not want to tinker with the software, they need on-demand solutions ... it's time to move the software to the Cloud." In this case we are talking about EMC. On the video - Paul Maritz, president of VMWare (which is owned by EMC), talking about the benefits of cloud technologies and presenting (of course, revolutionary) platform EMC OnDemand. This platform will be used to host the wide range of applications by EMC and its partners, but for now it provides on the well-known content management systems EMC Documentum, EMC Captiva and EMC Document Sciences. Although Documentum alrady has a set of web-interfaces, the access to the cloud version is implemented via the VMWare's virtualization technologies.
Of course, EMC, although it's the leader of ECM market, is not the first company to provide ECM from the cloud. SpringCM, Nuxeo and Alfresco already doing it. But when a big player takes a step into the Cloud, the credibility of cloud technologies is significantly increased.
The second good news from EMC - is that the company released the Documentum app for iPad. They even suggested the new term to describe the revolutionary spirit of this invention. "Choice Computing" - it means that users should have a choice on which device to use the system. Applause! But EMC has not stopped with that. The experts in the company found another revolutionary idea: "users want the interface to be simple and clean". So the company introduced the completely redesigned (simple) interface for Documentum.
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