To use IBM® Enterprise
Records to manage content from IBM Content
Manager, you need IBM FileNet® Content Engine or Content Platform Engine and IBM Content
Integrator.
Global organizations use IBM Content
Integrator to enable portals, collaborative
applications, customer relationship management, and other key applications
to work with distributed content and work processes throughout the
extended enterprise. IBM Content
Integrator integrates existing content such as images, documents, and workflow
processes from disparate native repositories.
The following diagram
shows an
IBM Enterprise
Records and
Content Manager system:
Figure 1. IBM Content
Manager and IBM Enterprise
Records
This configuration supports federated search, federated records
management, and federated business process management. By using content
federation, you can define and manage content management strategies.
You must know the following facts about how
Content Engine or
Content Platform Engine and
Content Federation Services are used in this configuration:
- IBM Enterprise
Records can declare
any Content Engine or Content Platform Engine documents, including
federated documents, as records. Content Engine or Content Platform Engine handles the rest of the federation services needs.
- Setting up IBM Enterprise
Records to work with Content Federation Services requires no additional configuration steps.
- Setting up Content Federation Services to work with IBM Enterprise
Records requires no additional configuration steps. Set the Usage Mode property
of the Content Integrator connector
to Records Management.