OpenText Documentum

Our customers have a lot of documents for customers and product specifics. And managing them in a directory or at some storage was very difficult. And we also have many documents which are managed and updated frequently across the globe. So using OpenText Documentum our clients' requirements were fulfilled. And managing this content is very easy and due to availability on the cloud as well it really helps other aspects like availability as well as reliability as well. And controlling information of this content was also one of the purposes of having this product.

OpenText provides for the automation of invoice verification, automated invoice data field processing, management, approval routing, and check processing with SAP on the backend. Specifically, OpenText ECM provided the workflow, group, and role-based controls to streamline and automate the process of Accounts Payable by allowing an automated bridge between OCR and image scanning, and processing the data collected from these steps by intelligently foldering, permissioning, routing (via workflow) and processing for errors.

We use it as a central repository for our documentation. Documentum provides secure storage for all our documents. It provides granular level details and gives ACL at an individual as well as group level. These documents include our application packaging documentation, for example, application technical design. we maintain versioning and other organization-wide requirements via documentum.

Currently, Open Text Documentum Enterprise Content Management is being used by our accounts receivable department. Implementation is in progress for legal, procurement contracts and engineering.

Currently, I am not using Documentum. However, in the past I have used Documentum, supported Documentum, implemented Documentum, architected, developed against, etc., Documentum. Documentum is at its best, my opinion, as an DM (Document Management) solution. It is the best place to create and store your content for the enterprise. It may be a source of content for web publication but I would not use it for that primary purpose, there are better tools and better enterprise solutions for marketing content (which is the obvious use for publication of content as opposed to content that is used to run the enterprise). Documentum can address most every other enterprise content solution with depth and utility, it is the solution for big needs like being able to manage billions of content objects (usually documents) that need to be FTI (Full Text Indexes - ability to search inside the documents), to scan in 100k+ documents/invoices per hour, and to transform, organize, workflow/BPM, etc. your content. It does Records Management and has a long successful history of that (meaning less chance of fines from failing regulatory requirements). Arguably, it is the most robust and heavy duty ECM I have worked with and it not easily replaced by any of the middle tier solutions or the new, BOX/Nuxeo/Mfiles solutions or the older WCC/Stellant.

EMC Documentum was used across multiple departments in IT and also used as a Content Management and as a Web publishing platform across organization.
There are two instances of the Documentum:
1. One for the content management acting as Enterprise Content management across IT, where users store the documents, content for daily usage.
2. Another instance was used as a Web Content Management, where users create the site pages and publish the pages to the external corporate web site.

Multiple other content management systems got migrated to EMC Documentum because it solved the below business problems:
1. Security - Documentum provides tight security with granular level of maintaining the permissions on the content assets
2. Archival and Content Disposition: Content Disposal or archival is easy with Documentum
3. Records management: Legal and InfoSec documents maintenance is easy with Documentum using Records features.
4. Workflow management and Audit

In our organization, EMC Documentum is used in 10+ departments. We use Documentum's case management system to process the documents received from our advisors. We use the scanning solution to scan documents into Documentum and they are moved in different stages of the workflow (approval process). We also Integrated Documentum with a couple of vendor/home-grown systems. The business process automation and using workflows helped us to reduce manual work.

EMC Documentum ECM products are being used across the company I am currently assigned as consultant. It is used globally within the company, and primarily for archiving/storing data, applying retention and managing content within the Research and Development department. It addresses problems of managing content for easy retrieval, storage, applying retention - the whole document life cycle.

As a consultant I work with a variety of organizations in various industries, assisting them with the implementation of EMC's Documentum platform. Our projects have ranged from single departments to global corporate roll-outs. Use cases ranged from simple document version control to fully automated Event Management and content publishing environments.

It is used by a few departments at the moment. It helps to manage sensitive documents in a secure way.