Documentum & SharePoint INtegration Solution: SPIN
- The Challenge: Disparate content, complex website editing
- Crown Solution: Merged Documentum and SharePoint data
- Business Benefits: Reduced costs and simplified editing
The Challenge
The content in your EMC Documentum repository is invaluable to you and you’d like to get the most out of it from day to day. At the same time, you want to leverage Microsoft SharePoint and its underlying content and metadata in the smartest way possible. Yet contending with entirely separate data in each of these platforms remains costly and cumbersome, leading you to consider one of two options:
- You can eliminate or retire your Documentum system, recreate all your websites, security, templates, links, and so on in a new SharePoint environment, and then migrate your content over to SharePoint
- You can retain your content in Documentum and simply publish the renditions to a SharePoint portal
Assuming you’re in search of the simpler life, you can now integrate the two platforms in a way that enables you to optimize the functionality of Documentum and SharePoint, share data between the two, and improve your editing process—easily and cost-effectively.
Crown Solution
Crown Partners offers a simple yet powerful solution to the challenges of having separate Documentum and SharePoint data, and fills in functionality gaps between the two. Crown’s SharePoint INtegration (SPIN) solution is used in combination with Crown’s rich Web Composer product. Used together, they allow you to leverage your existing Documentum infrastructure as is and simply publish your rendered content to SharePoint for viewing. In this way you:
- Promote SharePoint as your consumption environment
- Maintain Documentum as your contribution source
This seamless integration function is enabled by key solution components, including Crown Web Composer, Sharepoint Loader, and SharePoint Web Composer Integration.
Business Benefits
While SharePoint offers clear cost and usability benefits, some companies require more than its archival, workflow, storage, and general editing interface provide. A Documentum solution leveraging Web Composer can make up the difference. By integrating the Documentum and SharePoint platforms, the SPIN solution offers process, capability, and cost benefits including:
- Provides a flexible, efficient process for synchronizing data and security between Documentum and SharePoint throughout the content lifecycle
- Enables authors to edit Documentum content directly from SharePoint, simplifying and accelerating the contribution process
- Eliminates the time and expense of recreating your websites, security, and templates, and migrating the content to the new environment
- Fills in the solution gap between File System Integration and EMC Documentum Content Services for SharePoint
