 |  WebSphere® II Content Edition provides: - access to underlying content and workflow systems that enables users to:
- check in, check out, view and modify content
- view and update metadata, security, and annotations
- create and work with renditions, compound documents, workflow tasks, and queues
- view virtually all standard business formats, as well as TIFF and MODCA
- monitor content, content folders, workflow items, and queues for changes, and trigger actions when a change occurs
- full read-write functionality and unique capabilities
- user ability to organize and work with content assets and workflow items as if managed in one system
- services such as metadata mapping, federated search, and single sign-on
- a uniform superset API to eliminate coding to multiple APIs from different vendors
- real-time content views of content and workflow accessed in place remove the need to access each repository individually
WebSphere® II Content Edition provides numerous technology benefits. - Service-oriented architecture
- Fully J2EE-compliant and Web services compatible
- Supports WebSphere Application Server and BEA WebLogic Server
- Supports component distribution and load balancing
- Provides Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) interface for Web services applications
- Supports URL-addressable functions
Business benefits: - Consolidation benefits can be more easily achieved without the time, cost and process disruption of a "rip and replace" initiative
- A migration path toward a common infrastructure and away from legacy repositories over time allows organizations to reduce the cost and complexity of their content infrastructure
- Enriched portals and applications can integrate key content scattered across multiple repositories into your portal, workflow processes and LOB applications, including customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications
- Records management initiatives allow organizations to extend their electronic records management applications to reach content stored in multiple disparate systems
- Enterprise search, through tight integration with OmniFind™ Enterprise Edition, provides access to a broader set of unstructured information sources as part of a free-form text search paradigm
- Federated access to all classes of information -- structured and unstructured, mainframe and distributed, public and private -- from within a standard structured query language can be gained when deployed with other WebSphere Information Integration federation offerings
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