Opening the door to portal content

As part of its new Web services initiative, Documentum has developed eContent portlets that are said to speed the adoption of content management tools in popular enterprise portals.

Documentum reports its eContent Services for Portals combine these off-the-shelf, embeddable portal components with documentation and integration examples that enable portal vendors and customers to rapidly deploy content management services. In an effort to speed adoption, the company has pre-packaged what it identifies as the most significant and common content management functions, such as content contribution, browsing and workflow management. These services will be delivered as Java Server pages, Java classes and XML files to be exposed through the portal interface. The company will offer a Portal Integration Kit to guide portal builders.

Among the early adopters are: ATG, BEA, Bowstreet, Citrix, Corechange, Datachannel, Epicentric, Plumtree Software and SAP Portals.