xCelerated Composition Platform for Documentum

The EMC Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform (xCP) is the essential application development platform that enables you to quickly build dynamic case-based applications. With the focus on configuration and less coding, you can deliver case-based applications up to fifty percent faster, at a substantially lower cost and with less resources.

In a typical organization the people with the technical expertise to develop custom business applications are not typically the same people closest to the business processes. xCP gives business analysts the ability to build complex business logic above and beyond just the user interface. Giving people that understand the business processes and logic the ability to design and implement applications removes the natural disconnect between Business and IT. The result is a much faster and less expensive implementation of business process management solutions. Since business processes can change over time, further return on investment is realized when business can update and publish revised workflows without burdening IT.

EMC plans on releasing xCP version 2.0 in January 2011. Customers are encouraged to evaluate using xCP for new development since new version of xCP will be based on DFS instead of the currently WDK based product.

Interested in learning more about xCP? Contact Portford today to set up a webex demonstration or visit the EMC Community Network

EMC World Overview

Thousands of EMC customers and partners attended EMC World in Boston May 10th - 13th and had the opportunity to attend 91 presentations on Documentum and 2 presentations on ApplicationXtender. EMC's Content Management and Archiving (CMA) family of products (which includes Documentum, Captiva, and ApplicationXtender) has been changed to the Information Intelligence Group (IIG). While the overall them of EMC World was "Journey to the Private Cloud", the theme for Documentum was the xCelerated Composition Platform (xCP) which is a combination of Business Process Management, TaskSpace, and Forms Builder Tools. See the following article in this newsletter for more details on xCP.

Many feel that Centerstage still lacks some of the document management functionality found in Webtop and some collaboration features the eRoom provide. EMC continues to focus development on Centerstage which has now been available for two years in limited and wide release. Next year EMC plans to make the SDK for Centerstage available which should lead to a much wider adoption among Documentum customers.

Overall, Documentum and ApplicationXtender were not the major focus at EMC World which is why Portford provides our customers regular webex seminars, a content rich support portal, and our blog keep our customers current on the issues and products that concern them the most.

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If you would like information about the new products features please contact your dedicated account representative or email: dan.segura@portfordsolutions.com or visit www.portfordsolutions.com