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Documentum Gets Into Compliance: Page 2 of 3

“This is the best direction for ECM to go,” Markham says. “With ECM, you can integrate collaboration, records management, and document management directly into the repository. ECM will provide the framework that will allow the integration of specific [compliance] services.”

Then again, don’t overlook EMC’s hand in this either, given its rabid push for ILM as a compliance solution (see EMC Pounds ILM Pulpit).

“EMC has a whole back-end storage heritage, and they bring that to Documentum,” Markham says.

Documentum marketing VP Jerry Magee says the application automates procedures that users previously had to program themselves. The application includes a Web compliance segment that allows the same monitoring and audit features to be applied to Web content -- which is often overlooked in compliance applications.

Documentum also made use of Application Xtender -- a document imaging and management application -- from Legato, another software company that became an EMC division through acquisition. The app is now built on Microsoft's .NET programming platform and rechristened Documentum AX5 for Windows.