Software leaders enable Global 2000 organizations to address full range of
content management requirements for the desktop and enterprise.
HOPKINTON, Mass. and REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
EMC Corporation and Microsoft Corp. today announced a new enterprise
content management (ECM) alliance aimed at helping to enable organizations
to become People-Ready with their compliance, regulatory and other critical
business data. This alliance enables information workers to take advantage
of the Microsoft(R) tools and applications they use every day to access and
contribute to the critical business processes available in their ECM
infrastructure. As part of this strategic alliance, EMC will introduce a
set of new content and archiving products that enable tighter integration
between the industry-leading EMC Documentum ECM platform and Microsoft
solutions and platform technologies. This announcement builds on the
existing EMC and Microsoft alliance. (The previous announcement about their
relationship is available at
http://www.emc.com/news/emc_releases/showRelease.jsp?id=4095).
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EMC will bring to market new solutions that seamlessly integrate the
EMC Documentum platform with multiple Microsoft solutions and platform
technologies including Microsoft Office SharePoint(R) Server 2007, the 2007
Microsoft Office system, SQL Server(TM) 2005 and enterprise search
solutions. Microsoft provides content management capabilities in SharePoint
Server 2007 today. With this new alliance SharePoint users can take
advantage of the advanced ECM capabilities of the Documentum platform.
Information workers will be able to access the Documentum platform natively
from within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft
Office system, enabling users to leverage the power of the Documentum
platform in areas such as advanced records management, business process
management, imaging and rich media from their preferred Microsoft
applications.
"In response to demand from our mutual customers, Microsoft and EMC are
working together to help enable customers to take advantage of the ECM
capabilities across Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the EMC
Documentum technologies," said Kurt DelBene, vice president of the Office
Business Platform Group at Microsoft. "By expanding on the rich integration
between Documentum and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, we are offering
customers more choice and control over the management of their business
information."
"For years, customers have been demanding seamless integration of their
working environments with enterprise-level content management capabilities
such as content classification, retention, workflow and security," said
Balaji Yelamanchili, senior vice president and general manager of Content
Management & Archiving at EMC Corporation. "Today's announcement makes this
integration possible and is yet another milestone in EMC and Microsoft's
collaborative efforts to deliver enterprise-class solutions that address
customers' most critical business information requirements."
"At Dow Corning, we're a large EMC Documentum customer with
approximately 150 content management applications across our organization
and a premier Microsoft customer," said Ann-Marie Horcher, senior
specialist at Dow Corning Corp. "We're pleased to see EMC working closely
with Microsoft to integrate its content management capabilities directly
into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We believe this is the right
strategic direction, as the success of content management is ultimately
determined by our end users' ability to access the content and capabilities
necessary to meet their business needs using familiar applications."
These solutions from EMC will allow manual or automatic archival of
content from SharePoint repositories to a Documentum repository while
keeping content accessible and searchable from within Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007. By archiving content from SharePoint into
Documentum for long- term retention and management, organizations can help
their information workers meet compliance, content utilization, and storage
optimization policies and procedures, all from within the familiar
Microsoft applications they use every day.
"There has never been a better time for customers to realize the value
that the Microsoft platform and applications, combined with partner
solutions, can provide. We know that great companies like EMC are committed
to providing our customers with the highest-quality end-to-end experience,"
said Robert Bernard, general manager of the Global ISV Group at Microsoft.
"This strategic alliance presents an exciting opportunity for our joint
customers to get the most value out of their investments in both EMC's and
Microsoft's technologies. Together, we are thrilled to be able to provide a
world-class user experience built on Microsoft software with EMC."
EMC has also extended the Documentum platform to support Microsoft SQL
Server 2005. With this new integration, EMC Documentum customers can now
use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to achieve a better application experience,
improved performance and more application reliability. At the same time,
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 customers can leverage enterprise-level content
management capabilities including process and repository services for
increased functionality and flexibility in collaboration, automation and
security.
"Enterprises are faced with increasing regulatory complexities -
including new changes in the federal rules of evidence -- even as their
confusion increases about the right tools to manage content," said Toby
Bell, research director at Gartner Inc. "To mitigate risk and simplify
decisions about better content provisioning, an ideal combination of basic
and higher order content services functionality would marry specific parts
of each type of offering to allow for strategic content control. 2007 might
be the year when content governance policies and the supporting technology
finally become effective in better managing out cost and complexity, while
managing in availability and accountability."
At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2006 in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 8-13, Microsoft
and EMC will demonstrate integration of the EMC Documentum platform and
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 at booths 602 and PS-2. EMC will deliver a
presentation on Oct. 10 from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. titled, "Extending Microsoft
Office and SharePoint with EMC Documentum." More information about Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo can be found at
http://www.gartner.com/it/sym/2006_/sym16/sym16_home.jsp.
Pricing and Availability
EMC Documentum platform support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is
scheduled to be available this quarter. EMC Documentum Content Services for
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and EMC Documentum Archive Services for
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 is scheduled to be available during the
first quarter of 2007. Prices vary by configuration. More information about
these and other EMC software products can be found at
http://software.emc.com.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services
and solutions for information management and storage that help
organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the
lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle.
Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.emc.com.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the
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factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general
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technology spending; (iii) risks associated with acquisitions and
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(x) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xi)
fluctuating currency exchange rates; and (xii) other one-time events and
other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's
filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any
obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of
this release.
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of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.
EMC and Documentum are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation and its
subsidiaries.
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trademarks of their respective owners.
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