FileNet® P8 components
provide the enterprise-level capabilities that are required for solving
critical business requirements. This section enumerates these product
characteristics.
Open and extensible
To promote an open and extensible environment, FileNet P8 provides APIs for developing
custom applications. In addition, the FileNet P8 architecture is built
on industry standards.
Scalable
The FileNet P8 components
support enterprise-level scalability with a multitier, distributed
architecture. In particular, in order to accommodate various scalability
needs, FileNet P8 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
High availability is the ability of a server system to
provide a service to a user with as little perceived downtime as possible.
Though not guaranteed, different ranges of high availability exist,
from "five nines" with 99.999% uptime, to 95% uptime.
Disaster recovery
The section on high availability discusses putting into
place systems and devices that assure your FileNet P8 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
The FileNet P8 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
The FileNet P8 platform
provides an authentication model based on Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and the Java Authentication
and Authorization Service (JAAS) standard, a rich set of features
for defining authorized access to FileNet P8 objects, and a complete
auditing system. This provides a secure environment for managing content
and processes.
Connectivity FileNet P8 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
The overall FileNet P8 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).