Content services

IBM FileNet® Content Manager digitizes content and manages the content lifecycle by enabling users to focus on their work and collaborate within the enterprise and with external business partners.

IBM FileNet Content Manager and IBM Business Automation Navigator
IBM FileNet Content Manager offers enterprise-level scalability and flexibility to handle the most demanding content challenges, the most complex business processes, and integration to all your existing systems. FileNet P8 is a reliable, scalable, and highly available enterprise platform. With FileNet P8, you can capture, store, manage, secure, and process information to increase operational efficiency and reduce total cost of ownership. You can also streamline and automate business processes, access and manage all forms of content, and automate records management to help meet compliance needs.

At the core of the platform are repository services for capturing, managing, and storing your business-related digital assets. Multiple repositories, called object stores, can be created and managed within a single system to serve your business requirements.

Object stores can be configured to store content in a database, a file system, and storage devices that support the S3 API.

IBM FileNet Content Manager provides the following content management capabilities:
  • Business object management.
  • Application development and business objects.
  • Events and subscriptions.
  • Lifecycles.
  • Property and full-text search capabilities.
  • Bulk processing.
  • Versioning.
  • Classification.
  • Entry templates.
  • Managing XML content.
  • Content storage.
  • Import and export
  • Retention and holds.
  • Customizable user interfaces.
You also have access to the content navigation and customization functionality that is provided by Business Automation Navigator:
  • Browse for content that is stored in a repository.
  • Search for content by running a text search.
  • Save document, folders, and other content as favorites.
  • Edit documents.
  • Add documents to content servers.
  • Organize documents by creating folders and adding content to the folders.
  • Use the version control rules that are set on the repository.
  • Create teamspaces to provide a focused view of the content and objects in the repository.
  • For more information about using External Data Service with your BAN container deployment, see Deploying the sample external data service for containers.
IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications
Content Collector for SAP Applications provides advanced archiving capabilities that help SAP users run their businesses more efficiently. It provides access to business information of all types, supports the transfer of legacy content to backup storage.
It includes the following advanced capabilities:
  • Helps improve system performance by managing the growth of SAP applications.
  • Reduces investments for extra hardware.
  • Makes business documents available to authorized users anywhere on your network.
  • Enables retention periods and legal holds on archived SAP transactions by using ILM from SAP, helping you comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
  • Increases productivity by making documents easily accessible from an SAP GUI.

For more information, see IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications 4.0 documentation and Preparing to install Content Collector for SAP Applications on Certified Kubernetes with an operator.

IBM Enterprise Records
You can use Enterprise Records to create and maintain accurate, secure, and reliable records for both electronic and physical information. Also, you create a record to place the document or physical object under corporate control or to meet government regulations.

The detail of this control specifies how the document or object is to be stored, accessed, and eventually disposed of. The term record is used to refer informally to either the metadata file or the document or object that was declared as a record. The metadata describes record properties, such as media type, format, author, subject, reviewer, location, and publication date. You can place records under this control as required by government standards and guidelines for the type of record.

Note: If you want to use the User Management Services for user management, you need to use the Enterprise Records sweep tools via the command-line.

For more information, see IBM Enterprise Records 5.2.1 documentation and Preparing to install Enterprise Records on Certified Kubernetes with an operator.