Documentum and SharePoint Integration (SPIN)

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Written by: Barry Besecker, Vice President Web & Marketing Practice

To say you rely heavily on your EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint platforms is probably an understatement. After all, they were big investments that paid off. Each platform has its strengths. And your content authors are accustomed to using the pair for content editing and publishing. Recreating all those web sites and migrating all that content to SharePoint seems a bit nightmarish. What if you could leave your content and web pages where they are, and publish content from Documentum to SharePoint as if it had been on SharePoint all along?

That's the idea behind Crown Documentum SharePoint Integration-SPIN, for short. SPIN simplifies the editing environment for your authors. It uses Crown Web Composer to marry content editing on Documentum with content publishing on SharePoint. 

Here's what the process looks like for users: 

1. An author locates the content to edit through the SharePoint portal.
2. The author clicks on the Crown Web Composer editor. Web Composer pulls and loads the content from Documentum.
3. The author edits the content, and saves it. It is versioned in Documentum, transformed, and automatically published by Documentum's Site Caching Services (CCS) to a temporary file store.

In temporary storage, a post-publishing function loads the content, and all its metadata, into SharePoint and it is available for consumption through your SharePoint portals.

SPIN provides you with the best features of Documentum and SharePoint. It eliminates the complexity and cost of a tight integration. Authors can edit Documentum content directly from SharePoint because SPIN synchronizes the data and security between the two platforms. Because SPIN uses Crown Web Composer, you can continue to use your Documentum platform as you have in the past. You're simply publishing rendered Documentum content to SharePoint. Documentum is the contribution side of the equation; SharePoint is the consumption side.

Take the next step! Contact us about integrating your SharePoint and Documentum data. Visit us at http://www.crownpartners.com/ or email info@crownpartners.com

Questions or comments? info@crownpartners.com