About Content Manager OnDemand

Overview of Content Manager OnDemand
Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms is a document archive solution. Content Manager OnDemand supports any organization that can benefit from hard copy replacement and instant access to information.
System overview
A Content Manager OnDemand system consists of client programs and server programs that communicate over a network running the TCP/IP communications protocol, a database manager that maintains index data and server control information, and storage managers that maintain documents on various types of storage devices.
Indexers
You can use indexers to define the characteristics of your documents to IBM® Content Manager OnDemand.
Enhanced Retention Management (ERM)
The Content Manager OnDemand Enhanced Retention Management feature enables you to manage and enforce retention of documents.
Content Manager OnDemand Distribution Facility (ODF)
Content Manager OnDemand Distribution Facility (ODF) is the report distribution feature for Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms and Content Manager OnDemand for z/OS®.
Content Manager OnDemand administrative client
The Content Manager OnDemand administrative client helps you maintain your Content Manager OnDemand system.
Concepts
When defining a new report or type of data to Content Manager OnDemand, an administrator must create an application and assign the application to an application group.
Indexing methods
Document indexing is used for reports that contain logical items such as policies, and statements. The report indexing is used for reports that contain many pages of the same kind of data, such as a transaction log.
Documents
Content Manager OnDemand documents represent indexed groups of pages.
Servers
The Content Manager OnDemand server environment includes a library server and one or more object servers residing on one or more workstations connected to a TCP/IP network.
Configuring a remote instance on a Windows server
You can configure a remote instance of Content Manager OnDemand on a Windows server.
Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit
The Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit (ODWEK) provides a set of programming interfaces that can search and retrieve documents from Content Manager OnDemand servers.

Parent topic: Introduction