IBM Content Manager manages all types of digitized content across multiple platforms, databases and applications.  Built on a multi-tier, distributed architecture, it provides the scalability to grow from a single department to a geographically dispersed enterprise. IBM Content Manager is the base repository and a component of IBM’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) infrastructure.

The drawing below represents the high level view of IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) architecture. IBM Content Manager serves as the foundation for managing the enterprise’s unstructured data, and other applications are able to integrate and leverage enterprise content.

The modular components of IBM Content Manager are specifically designed to address today’s enterprise content management requirements. IBM Content Manager can help you maximize the value of your information assets across your organization, while effectively leveraging your existing IT infrastructure.

IBM Content Manager...

• Can run on all major IT server platforms including (Windows, Linux, Unix, iSeries, and Mainframe)
• Allows technical and non-technical business users to define document routing processes to meet business workflow requirements
• Allows configuration that meets your needs, the advantage of workload balancing, and ability to locate documents near clients with all components on a single or different operating system
• Stores objects on devices other than fixed disks attached to the content manager database for hierarchical storage management using Tivoli® Storage Manager