Oracle took the wraps off a refreshed Enterprise Content Management Suite this week to boost competition against rival middleware offerings from EMC, IBM and Open Text. The ECM Suite 11g update provides an end-to-end solution covering imaging and the web, as well as document and records management, the company said.
With ECM Suite 11g, Oracle is providing a unified infrastructure to help companies and organizations across multiple industries maximize their content management, reduce costs, and improve security, according to Oracle Vice President Andy MacMillan.
“Organizations need a comprehensive enterprise content management solution that is integrated into their business processes and fits with the way they work,” MacMillan said. “With Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, we meet those demands while delivering the performance and scalability needed to support the most complex and demanding enterprise content management environments.”
Complete and Comprehensive
Oracle’s goal is to help enterprises boost efficiency, improve business processes, and simplify management with “complete and comprehensive” ECM, MacMillan said. “What we mean by that is we have a unified, single content management” end-to-end solution for “web content, digital asset management, imaging, records management, and integrated in that unified way into the launch of different applications,” MacMillan added.
ECM Suite 11g’s updated universal content management (UCM) component provides businesses with a unified platform for managing web content, documents and other digital assets. Featuring built-in retention enhancements, the platform is designed “to make content management a better fit for where you work,” MacMillan said
For example, the next-generation desktop integration capabilities promise to increase efficiency by giving enterprise executives access to work-flow information and saved searches via Microsoft Windows Explorer. Oracle also noted that this updated component will give corporate workers the ability to edit managed content, compare managed documents, and insert managed links directly from Microsoft Office.
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Suite 11g’s updated…