Content Federation Services for Image Services overview

Content Federation Services for Image Services (CFS-IS) combines the capabilities of Image Services (IS) systems and Content Engine servers. CFS-IS acts as a bridge that enables you to use FileNet P8 applications on Content Engine and Panagon applications on Image Services to store content on Image Services systems. You can then retrieve and view that content on Content Engine servers using FileNet P8 applications such as Workplace.

Using FileNet Content Federation Services for Image Services, you can access content from heterogeneous repositories anywhere in the enterprise and federate this information to provide a single enterprise source for critical business content. You can search, catalog, classify, secure, retain, comply, activate, update and delete content residing in repositories across the enterprise.

Benefits

Content Federation Services for Image Services provides the following benefits:

Capabilities

Content Federation Services for Image Services enables FileNet P8 applications and servers to communicate and work together with Image Manager applications and servers. You can initiate work through the applications of either system. For example, you can capture documents through FileNet P8 Platform applications, store them in Image Services, and view them with other FileNet P8 applications. Or you can capture documents in Image Services, send the cataloging information to Content Engine, and view the documents through an Image Manager viewer such as IDM Desktop or a F ileNet P8 Platform application such as Workplace.

Converting from Image Services to Content Engine

During the transition from the Image Services catalog to the Content Engine catalog, you can maintain dual catalog entries for existing documents stored in Image Services; that is, one catalog entry in the Image Services catalog and one catalog entry in the Content Engine catalog. The dual catalog entries are both masters and are kept synchronized. This means that during the transition, you can run FileNet P8 Platform applications and Panagon applications on documents stored in Image Services

Transition period

After you have verified that the conversion is complete and the applications have been successfully switched from Panagon applications to FileNet P8 Platform applications, the Image Services catalog entries are no longer necessary.When the FileNet P8 Platform applications have been running successfully for a period of time, Image Services cataloging can be disabled for the relevant Image Services document classes, and the existing catalog entries for those document classes can be deleted. At that point, the catalog export is permanent.

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