Documentum Teams with IBM to Power Dynamic Web Content for eBusiness Sites; Documentum Integrates IBM WebSphere Application Server with Documentum 4i

Business Wire, Dec 20, 1999

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999

Documentum, a leading provider of Internet-scale content management solutions for powering eBusiness applications, (NASDAQ:DCTM), today announced that as part of the IBM (NYSE:IBM) PartnerWorld for Developers Program, Documentum will integrate IBM WebSphere(1) with its Documentum 4i solution and will receive co-marketing support for the solution from IBM.

By offering customers a solution for global content management and eBusiness application delivery, Documentum and IBM will enable easier, faster and more reliable deployment of Web content.

Documentum 4i is a leading open, standards-based content management platform that integrates dynamic content and complex business processes with people everywhere. Documentum 4i provides a secure common repository for serving Web content ranging from HTML text, images, Java applets, graphics and multimedia, such as video, audio and animation.

WebSphere Application Servers are Java-based Web application servers that help customers deploy and manage eBusiness applications that support the industry-standard Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) programming model and provide customers with advanced transactional capabilities.

"IBM recognizes that the ability to connect Web-based users to existing documents and other unstructured data is critical to the success of any enterprise content management solution," said Paraic Sweeney, vice president, Business Transformation Marketing at IBM. "We're pleased that Documentum has teamed with IBM to leverage the technology in WebSphere to build flexible, standards-based eBusiness applications that will help our joint customers compete in the eBusiness marketplace of the next century."

"IBM has established itself as a visionary at the forefront of building, running and managing Web applications -- such as high-traffic retail sites, supply-chain management and Web self-service applications. In turn, our Global 2000 customers have long relied on Documentum to power their trusted content across the enterprise," said David DeWalt, executive vice president and general manager, eBusiness at Documentum, Inc. "As our customers rise to meet the challenge of powering the trusted content required by dynamic eBusiness applications, a tight integration with the WebSphere family of application servers ensures a best-of-breed solution."

About the Documentum Open Content Architecture

The Open Content Architecture (OCA) is part of Documentum 4i, the first content management platform designed to dynamically manage all facets of content creation and delivery. Live Content Adapters provide the integration link with preferred eBusiness technologies and address the speed, flexibility and rich feature requirements of today's eBusiness applications.

With OCA, companies can leverage existing technology investments and implement best-of-breed new technology, while speeding time to deployment. OCA was designed to support and take advantage of market-leading standards including Java, XML and JDBC. By providing live, trusted content to any enterprise or e-commerce application, OCA ensures that as content changes, it is made available instantly.

About IBM WebSphere

The IBM WebSphere Application Servers represent the industry's most complete range of Web application server environments that support business applications from simple Web publishing through enterprise-scale transaction processing.

IBM's WebSphere Application Server, Advanced Edition, expands on the capabilities of IBM's WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition, by providing customers with support for the industry-standard Enterprise JavaBean programming model.

IBM WebSphere Studio is a comprehensive tools environment for building Web applications that leverage existing enterprise systems and extend them to the Web, while running on multiple IBM and non-IBM platforms. WebSphere Performance Pack is a unique combination of caching, proxy and filtering functions; file content management and replication; and load balancing in a single Internet hosting infrastructure.

About IBM's PartnerWorld for Developers

Documentum is a member of IBM's worldwide PartnerWorld for Developers program which is designed to help commercial software developers reach broader markets, lower their costs of doing business, and take their products to market faster. The program is focused on leading-edge technologies that enable developers to deliver complete e-business solutions to their customers.

For more information on PartnerWorld for Developers or to join the program, visit: http://www.developer.ibm.com.

About Documentum

Documentum, the leading provider of Internet-scale content management solutions for powering eBusiness applications, offers solutions that integrate dynamic content, complex business processes and people everywhere - enabling seamless collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing between employees, partners, suppliers and customers.

Documentum offers the only open, standards-based content management platform and applications suite for managing complex processes as well as any content type, in a truly collaborative environment - enabling trusted content to be delivered to the right person at the right time on any information device, regardless of its origin or location.