Enterprise capabilities
Content Cortex components
provide the enterprise-level capabilities that are required for solving
critical business requirements. This section enumerates these product
characteristics.
Open and extensible Content Cortex provides APIs for developing custom applications. In addition, the Content Cortex architecture is built on industry standards.Scalable Content Cortex components support enterprise-level scalability with a multitier, distributed architecture. In particular, in order to accommodate various scalability needs, Content Cortex offers both vertical and horizontal scalability solutions. The vertical scalability of a server can be defined as its ability to handle additional workload by the addition of a proportional amount of processing power. Horizontally scalable systems can handle additional workload by increasing the size of the cluster as the workload increases. Highly available five nines with 99.999% uptime, to 95% uptime.Disaster recovery Content Cortex system is available to your customers and employees with as little downtime as possible. High availability addresses localized failures such as a hard disk crash or server failure. But what if your entire production system is lost due to a catastrophic event such as earthquake or flood? Disaster recovery goes a step further than high availability by planning replication of your entire data center.Section 508 compliant Content Cortex platform ensures Section 508 Compliance based on Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards, published by the U.S. Access Board on December 21, 2000, at 36 CFR Part 1194. Compliance is achieved by incorporating Section 508 Subpart B Technical Standards, as applicable, in all design, development, and testing activities. In particular, IBM® addresses Section 508 product compliance in existing and new releases during all phases of product development, including design, design review, prototyping, construction, testing, quality assurance, and training of support staff.Secure Content Cortex provides comprehensive security through authentication, permissions and governance capabilities, and audit features. The platform integrates with existing directory services and supports AI-powered operations with secure access controls.Connectivity Content Cortex provides tools for integrating enterprise applications and information systems. In addition to providing a complete set of programmatic interfaces that can be used for performing various integration tasks, the Process Orchestration and Component Integrator components specifically target typical integration requirements.Internationalized Content Cortex platform architecture is Unicode (UTF-8) enabled to support global, multilingual system configurations. The user interface and message components are combined into language packs (in JAR files) for the primary language plus separate files for additional secondary (localized) languages. Multiple secondary languages and language packs can be installed on a single system. In a multilingual environment, the language settings are determined from the browser settings (user interface language) and the operating system (such as the date/time format and currency settings).