Plumtree Software Wednesday debuted two plug-ins for businesses to integrate
Documentum enterprise content management capabilities into the Plumtree
Corporate Portal platform.
These tools are: a suite of Plumtree Portal Gadgets incorporating content
management capabilities of Documentum 4i; and a Plumtree Crawler for
scanning Documentum 4i repositories for new content to index in the portal.
The plug-ins essentially expand digital enterprise offerings by granting
customers a portal solution for creating, personalizing, delivering and
managing information extracted from anywhere in an extended enterprise.
Businesses can speed products to market and mobilize their networks.
The Plumtree Gadget Suite for Documentum 4i empowers business users to
create, edit and approve Documentum-managed content from a personalized
portal page that also incorporates those users’ e-mail, sales leads,
inventory reports, and market news.
The gadgets were developed by Infodata, a Plumtree channel partner with
experience in Documentum and Plumtree technologies. With this enhanced
integration, organizations now have the option of accessing Documentum 4i
through hosted gadgets which allow them to register the new portal services
via the Web. The Plumtree Documentum Gadget Suite is available both as a
Web-hosted solution or to customers who have purchased both software
solutions.
As for the Plumtree Crawler for Documentum 4i, that tool adds to a
collection of crawlers for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, the Internet,
corporate intranets and extranets to offer customers a single view of all
documents across the enterprise, regardless of where they are located.
The “Crawler” publishes content that has been staged through Documentum
workflows, integrating content in an enterprise-wide searchable directory
that includes Web pages, reports, e-mail and documents from file systems.
The Crawler regularly scans Documentum repositories for new content and
places links to new text documents, images, spreadsheets or any other form
of content in the organized, searchable structure of the Plumtree Directory.
Alan Weintraub, research director of Gartner Group, said the goal of
corporate portals is to help businesses manage their knowledge, which
Plumtree facilitates with its new offerings.
“The key portal trend is the integration of Content Management to allow
greater control and personalization of unstructured content,” Weintraub
said. “Overall, the functionality that enterprises are seeking from portals
is expanding, and the role of the portal is evolving into the ‘Swiss army
knife’ for application access, content and knowledge management.”
