Fujitsu® Announces the Availability of Interstage®
Contentbiz™ Version 7
Latest Release of Interstage Contentbiz Extends
Support for Web Services and SOA, Provides Audit Trail for Compliance,
and Improves Efficiencies of Enterprise Content Integration
May 4, 2005 – Sunnyvale, CA – Fujitsu
Software Corporation today announced the availability of Interstage
Contentbiz v7, the newest version of Fujitsu's scalable application
platform for enterprise content integration. Interstage Contentbiz v7
extends support for Web services and Service-Oriented Architectures
(SOA), offers a new extensible audit trail and enhances integration
capabilities. Together, these features allow companies to more effectively
access, modify and search structured and unstructured enterprise content
resident in disparate, networked systems, independent of format or location.
By providing more effective management of corporate intellectual capital
assets, Interstage Contentbiz v7 enables businesses to optimize employee
productivity, improve customer service and partner relations, comply
with government mandates and maximize enterprise value. Key features
and enhancements include:
- Bidirectional WebDAV Agent enables integration with any enterprise
content management (ECM) system that complies with the Web Distributed
Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) standard.
- New Extensible Audit Trail ensures that proper audit trail information
is maintained for all compliance documentation.
- Enhanced Web Services Interface enables enterprises to leverage
a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to create Web services and integrate
reusable content integration services with applications.
- New Web Content Agent extends the reach of content integration
solutions to intranet and Internet content.
- New Content Portlets, which comply with JSR 168 (Java Specification
Request for Portlet API), provide commonly used content navigation
and search functionality that can be easily deployed on enterprise
portals.
Interstage Contentbiz v7 builds on the application platform’s
proven performance in enabling enterprises to leverage their entire
knowledge asset base – pooling knowledge through content integration
and delivering transparent access to information in real-time. It provides
simple, extensible content integration services that adhere to open
standards. With Interstage Contentbiz, companies can access structured
and unstructured enterprise content from different systems and sources,
facilitating unified content views, maintaining content integrity across
the company and enabling better content repurposing and reuse.
“Faced by competitive pressures to better optimize customer
and supply chain relationships, as well as growing demands for government
compliance, companies need to turn their isolated silos of knowledge
into unified views and processes,” said Robert Sepanloo, senior
vice president of Interstage at Fujitsu Software Corporation. “With
Interstage Contentbiz v7, we continue our commitment to helping companies
achieve their strategic and financial objectives by providing best-in-class
technology for harnessing corporate knowledge and intellectual capital
– regardless of location or format.”
Interstage Contentbiz v7 Features and Enhancements
Interstage Contentbiz is a scalable, extensible platform for viewing,
searching and modifying content from a range of sources, including data
from enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other enterprise applications,
relational databases and a variety of enterprise content management
systems. It also repurposes content for many different audiences without
the difficulty and cost of duplication. The Java-based, modular architecture
leverages open standards, such as WebDAV and Web services, and includes
a proven metadata repository, SDK and a set of services and content
agents. With v7, Interstage Contentbiz offers significant new features
and enhancements to facilitate enterprise content integration, including
a WebDAV agent, extensible audit trail, Web services interface, Web
content agent and new content portlets.
WebDAV Agent
Interstage Contentbiz v7 offers a new WebDAV integration agent to extend
support for the WebDAV standard for editing files and folders remotely
over the Internet. The WebDAV Agent makes it possible to search multiple
WebDAV-compliant enterprise content management repositories simultaneously
and modify content and metadata from each ECM system based on content
access policies.. By providing a standards-based approach to integrating
content from multiple repositories, the WebDAV agent eliminates the
time to develop and maintain custom integrations.
Extensible Audit Trail
A comprehensive content audit trail is a key requirement for any compliance
application. The new extensible Interstage Contentbiz audit trail contains
a variety of content events, such as content creation, update and delete,
and all content life cycle transitions, such as content approval, publishing
and archiving with the timestamp information and the name of the user
responsible for each state or transition. It also keeps track of system
security-related events, such as when users were added or removed, the
roles and access that users are assigned, and when each user logs into
the system. All audit trail information can be viewed and queried in
the Web-based content browser or any custom client application, based
on time, audit events or content types.
Web Services Interface
The Interstage Contentbiz Web Services Interface enables enterprises
to leverage a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to integrate reusable
content integration services, such as full-text search, with applications
that need access to both structured and unstructured content sources.
The Web Services interface enables Web service client applications to
access the Interstage Contentbiz virtual repository to retrieve a content
item or a list of content items from multiple sources as if they were
all stored in one repository and request for metadata information. With
v7, the Web Services Interface adds a new, extensible Web Services Management
component for creating and publishing Web services for any new Interstage
Contentbiz service that customers may build for their content integration
applications.
Web Content Agent
Many large enterprises have numerous dedicated intranet sites for its
business units or departments with constantly growing content volumes,
but no means to search across all of these independent sites. Interstage
Contentbiz v7 introduces a new Web Content Agent, which goes beyond
the dedicated search and query tools of other systems, to extend the
reach of content integration to intranet and Internet information. The
Web Content Agent enables organizations to register all required site
URLs in the content integration solution. It then crawls the registered
sites and their sub-structures on predefined intervals, making the site
content fully searchable in Interstage Contentbiz full-text searches.
Content Portlets
Enterprise portals typically require portlets to handle each of the
many content sources on which they rely, from databases and business
applications to document repositories. Interstage Contentbiz provides
a common content integration layer to help ease the cost and difficulty
of integrating various content sources with portals. This allows portal
users to navigate to all content sources via a unified navigation tree,
which can be exposed as a single portlet. Interstage Contentbiz v7 now
features a set of portlets that comply with the Java Specification Request
(JSR) 168 Portlet API and provide commonly used content navigation and
search functionality.
About Fujitsu Software Corporation
Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, California, is part
of the Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) family. The wholly owned subsidiary
delivers one of the world’s broadest lines of application infrastructure
software products, including the Interstage® Suite. Fujitsu Software
Corporation leverages Fujitsu’s international scope and expertise
in developing and providing information technology solutions, including
more than 4,000 software developers worldwide. To learn more about the
Interstage Suite, visit www.fujitsu.com/interstage.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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