Enterprise Content Management

Key ECM features include:

• Fourth-generation object model: Content Manager object model combines content, process and compliance resources as native capabilities that enable content to be dynamically managed and dramatically reduces development complexity.
• Active content: Unique FileNet capability to proactively move content and content-related business tasks through a business process without requiring human initiation.
• Content federation services: Delivers the ability to actively manage content across the enterprise regardless of what repository it resides in. Provides full content management capabilities, not just search, so users and applications can focus on what needs to happen rather than where the content is actually stored.
• Advanced document management capabilities: Streamlines document management tasks by providing mature versioning and parent-child capabilities, approval workflows and integrated publishing support. Comes with preconfigured, customizable document wizards and workflow templates.
• Full lifecycle management: Manages and controls the complete content lifecycle to improve efficiency and ensure compliance in content-related tasks such as publishing, expiration and retention. Maintains complete audit trails to meet regulatory mandates. Lifecycle events are managed at the software, not hardware, level to provide and promote customer choice on storage policies and platforms.
• Transformation and rendition services: Provides automated content publishing into multiple universal formats such as HTML and PDF.
• Unified repository and metadata model: Delivers a single, unified content repository and metadata model regardless of the type of digital content being managed. Content Manager’s common metadata model provides a comprehensive and streamlined search, repurposing and application development environment.

Business Process Management

Activating newly-acquired content within the business process provides a tremendous value to any organization. Using IBM FileNet Business Process Management, you can automate the seemingly endless chain of serialized, manual, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks that slow down your operation, cost you money, and impede progress. When you automate content routing with pre-defined rules and service standards, you can gain significant productivity improvements, increase quality, and improve timeliness and consistency within the business processes.

Compliance

Thousands of unique compliance regulations exist in North America alone. These regulations are constantly evolving. IBM FileNet’s Compliance Solution helps you manage compliance with these regulations by providing:
Security to protect your critical information
Auditing features to detail who accessed the information
“Zero-Click” method of enforcing records management policies

Document Rendition

The FileNet Rendition Engine provides you with document conversion to a variety of different formats, such as those produced by Microsoft® Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to PDF and HTML formats for publishing purposes. You can configure Multiple Rendition Engines to support large numbers of conversion requests.

User Access

Workplace™ is a universal, out-of-the-box, IBM FileNet P8 platform end-user web application that provides all users with enterprise content management (ECM) functionality. It also provides tools such as Process Designer and the Entry Template Wizard, so that business application designers can access the document management and business process management features of FileNet P8.