Documentum eRoom Enterprise Delivers Collaborative Content Management

Unites Collaboration, Content Management and Workflow to Enable Event-Triggered Workspaces

PLEASANTON, Calif., March 8, 2004 -- Documentum, the leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM), today announced the availability of Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7.2, a highly flexible collaborative environment that introduces new capabilities that address the collaborative nature of content creation and management. eRoom Enterprise 7.2 provides the ability to generate event-triggered workspaces based on pre- defined business rules, enabling team members to securely collaborate within the context of a process.

For example, an organization could automate a request for proposal submission process by predefining a workflow that involves employees from Sales, Finance and Engineering. When the proposal reaches the approval stage of the process, eRoom 7.2 can automatically trigger the creation of workspaces, pre-configured with appropriate memberships, content and tools, to enable distributed teams to work together in a collaborative environment.

"Documentum advances the notion of collaborative content management with its latest version of Documentum eRoom Enterprise," said David Coleman, managing director, Collaborative Strategies. "eRoom Enterprise 7.2 hits the mark for delivering a structured environment without hampering creativity, enabling organizations to capture all of the valuable content not typically associated in an often rigid business process."

"eRoom Enterprise 7.2 introduces collaborative content management, in response to market demand for combining the Documentum ECM platform and the collaborative features of eRoom," said Dave DeWalt, president of the Documentum software division of EMC. "eRoom Enterprise 7.2 enables organizations to facilitate and streamline creative processes, dramatically optimize business processes, and accelerate diverse functions such as new product development, client engagement and corporate governance."

Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7.2 new features include:

-- Event-triggered eRooms -- Auto-generated, pre-configured workplaces are driven by workflow processes.

-- Workflow-enabled collaborative assets -- All eRoom documents, databases, database rows, discussions, calendars and projects can now be included in Documentum workflows.

-- Central content repository -- All eRoom content can now be seamlessly stored in the Documentum ECM platform. Document templates can be broadcast to multiple eRooms, and all assets can be shared across multiple eRooms.

-- Optional collaborative Documentum applications -- The eRoom collaboration client can now be configured as an interface to other Documentum applications, enabling, for example, collaborative digital asset management and collaborative web content management.

-- Complete integration between eRoom and Documentum platform -- Seamless integration allows business users to take full advantage of the Documentum content management services in a collaborative environment.

Availability

Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7.2 is immediately available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

About Documentum eRoom

Documentum eRoom enables companies to become more productive, efficient and agile by bringing together people, processes and content. Documentum eRoom, available in two separate configurations -- eRoom and eRoom Enterprise -- is a highly flexible collaborative environment that enables people to work closely toward common goals, deliverables and outcomes -- both within an enterprise and beyond, including external entities such as partners, suppliers, customers and clients. Documentum eRoom Enterprise includes all of the classic eRoom capabilities, plus a shared enterprise repository and the ability to take advantage of the full breadth of ECM within a collaborative environment. For more information, visit: http://www.documentum.com/products/editions/collaboration/index.htm.

About Documentum

Documentum, a division of EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes. Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration. With a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents and discussions to email, Web pages, records and rich media. The Documentum platform makes it possible for companies to distribute all of this content in multiple languages, across internal and external systems, applications and user communities. As a result, Documentum's customers, which include thousands of the world's most successful organizations, harness corporate knowledge, accelerate time to market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance supply chain efficiencies and reduce operating costs, improving their overall competitive advantage. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at http://www.documentum.com.

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