Presented by Patrick Walsh, Principle Product Manager Documentum Platform and Aaron Aubrecht VP Product Management & XPO, IIG.
This session will focus on the core platform. Last year they tried to fit in everything and ran 20 min over time and half of the slides left unshown.
Talks about the need for IT to deliver business capability not just applying patching to Documentum. My personal reflection is that many IT-shops do not have a business perspective today. Maybe because they have budget efficiency requirements on them making reducing costs the main priority.
Few people in the room had actually upgraded to Documentum 7 and that is a problem that to much modern capability is left unused in many organisations. That is why the separation of upgrades to platform and clients is pushed now.
What’s new in Documentum 7
So repeating the same message of what is new in D7. Performance improvements due to intelligent session management (ISM) and type caching. ISM reduces memory usage up to 65 % by multiplexing communications between application server, content server and the database. Similar memory usage improvements with type caching.
Talks about xMS with automated deployment of a new D7 and xCP 2.0 stack for private VMWare private cloud environment. Deployment down to hours via XML-based blueprints describing the deployment parameters. Includes embedded deployment and configuration of Hyperic agents. We have yet to try this but I really hope that the blueprints represent a best practice starting point to develop our own blueprints.
Also improved content intelligence with xPlore 1.3. Includes large file support through partial indexing, content classification inline, added date-range search capability & metadata and of course the recommendation engine. It also features ad scriptable command line interface for automation and you can control xPlore from third party tools via Admin UI.
Crypto algorithms switched from DDS to AES which seem about time! Leads also to improved performance.
Finally the EMC Syncplicity Connector for Documentum which allows for external sharing of information with security enforced at the endpoint.
What’s next for Documentum 7.1
Will come in Q4 2013. Full minor version.
Expanded infrastructure certifications:
- Solaris 11 (with Oracle 11g R2)
- AIX 7.1 TL2 (with DB2 Enterprise 9.7 FP7)
- Windows Server 2012 (with SQL Server 2012 and Oracle 11g R2)
- WebSphere 8.5 is supported in D7.1 while D7 supported alongside tcFabric App Server, Tomcat 7 and Oracle Weblogic
- RHEL 6.x, x64 in D7.1, Native 64-bit, multithreaded architecture- Intelligence Session Management & Type Caching.
xMS 1.1 is coming in D7.1
Smarter deployments (Automatic discovery of services and componetns for existing environments). Orchestration for externally managed VMs or physical hosts. Clustering support with HA and load balancing.
Web administration UI is coming with automated software patching.
Documentum REST Services API (Q3 2013):
- Standards based
- Consumer-agnostic
- Mobile friendly
- Everything is a resources
- Scalability
Enhanced trust and security. Continue to harden Documentum.
- Stronger authentication security. Non-anonymous SSL.
- Authentication plug-in for Jasig Central Authentication Service (CAS)
- SSL Option for internal JMS – Content Server Communication
Great to see CAS support coming.
xPlore 1.4 is coming with faster response times for large result sets, improved diagnostics and automation for easier deployment.
Upgrading to Documentum 7
Talks about strategy forwards. Wants to reduce the number of configurations to test code against. Expect a narrower set of combinations of operating systems, app servers and databases.
Talks about the possibility to move upgrades for platform and clients separately.
The Enterprise Migration Appliance (EMA) is a response to the fact that migrations are complex projects. Happens not on the API level but on the database level. Traditional API-based methods are It is a virtual appliance with a complete server running on vSphere/ESXi environment. Also promotes migration solutions from both fme and euroscript.
There is an EMC Documentum 7.0 Rapid Success Program. To register go to: http://bit.ly/D70RSP by May 17, 2013.
Vision for the Documentum platform:
Best in-class ECM:
- VIPR integration
- Rapid content access through addressable caching
Trusted Platform
- Mobile SSO via SAML and OAuth
- Federated Identity Management and Dynamic User Enrollment for virtual trust zones
As much cloud as you need:
- Dynamic Scailing with xMS
- Cloud-based performance management and monitoring
- Content contribution and bi-directional sync with Syncplicity
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