Standards

Extensible Markup Language (XML) improves web functionality by identifying information in a flexible, adaptable way. It can be used to store any kind of structured information and to enclose or encapsulate information in order to pass it between different computing systems that would otherwise be unable to communicate.

EMC Documentum natively enables XML authoring, management, and reuse, allowing customers to leverage XML to deliver personalized, repurposed content to multiple applications such as web sites or wireless devices. EMC Documentum has adopted XML across its products and is helping to drive the advancement and adoption of XML and related standards such as Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) and Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML).

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDav) is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. WebDAV enables distributed content authoring tools to be broadly interoperable.

EMC Documentum provides full support for WebDAV through EMC Documentum WebDAV Services, allowing applications to access content and content services in EMC Documentum with the WebDAV protocol.

Web Services provide a mechanism for calling services on remote systems and across applications by using standard approaches. Main Web Services standards include Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) for registry and discovery of Web Services, the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) for invocation of and communication between Web Services, and Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for describing the service interfaces and bindings.

EMC Documentum Web Services provides a framework for the creation of content-focused Web Services. In addition, we're active participants in many groups that are responsible for developing Web Services-related standards such as OASIS Registry and Repository Technical Committee, uddi.org, ebXML, and ICE.

JJava 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) bases applications on standardized, modular components, provides services to those components, and automatically handles many details of application behavior. The J2EE platform provides applications with a scalable, reliable platform that can be leveraged for all applications across the enterprise. By leveraging J2EE architecture, developers no longer need to worry about fundamental technologies such as clustering or load balancing that are now assured by the J2EE infrastructure.

EMC Documentum fully embraces J2EE as a platform on which to build content applications. The EMC Documentum Web Development Kit (WDK) consists of a development environment and pre-built, reusable components with which developers can build web-based content applications that harness the strength and reliability of EMC Documentum.

WDK-based applications are J2EE-compliant, allowing them to be deployed alongside or integrated with any application built on the J2EE platform. EMC Documentum presentation logic and web clients such as Webtop or Web Publisher are also based on J2EE architecture and use WDK components. EMC Documentum certifies its products on all major J2EE application servers such as BEA, IBM, Oracle, Sun, and Apache Tomcat.

Department of Defense (DOD) 5015.2-STD is a records management standard that - along with other such standards - defines minimum necessary requirements for a credible electronic records management system that reliably and authentically archives electronic records. Such standards are typically defined by and for national government agencies such as the Department of Defense (DoD5015.2-STD in the U.S.) and the National Archives, Public Records Office (PRO) specifications in the U.K. In fact, EMC Documentum helped define the DoD5015.2-STD specification.

EMC Documentum electronic recordkeeping solutions are certified as compliant with the DoD5015.2 specification including Chapter 4 for classified records. Our solutions have also achieved the U.K.'s PRO approval and meet other commonly-accepted electronic record-keeping standards such as ISO15489.

JSR 168 is a portal specification for portlets that - along with other such specifications — defines how content sources and application front-ends are aggregated in a portal and how security and personalization are handled. The JSR 168 portal specification defines how portlets interact and share information with each other.

The EMC Documentum Web and Portal publishing solution supports JSR 168 in order to allow customers to get the most out of their enterprise portal initiatives. The EMC Documentum Web and Portal solution empowers non-technical knowledge workers within the organization to create and publish their own portal content while ensuring that published information is relevant and personalized to serve multiple portal initiatives and audiences including partners, employees, and customers.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is the easiest, most secure way to exchange files over the Internet. EMC Documentum FTP Services is an implementation of an FTP server for the EMC Documentum repository that exposes content through the FTP protocol while respecting EMC Documentum security and access control.

FTP Services enables, for instance, direct integration with any web authoring tool that supports FTP such as Adobe Dreamweaver, UltraDev, and HomeSite to transfer HTML content to the EMC Documentum repository. With FTP Services, users can securely transfer any content into the repository regardless of file format. This allows entire web sites to be imported and immediately incorporated into a dynamic web environment, resulting in tremendous savings in time and labor.

The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API is the industry standard for database-independent connectivity between the Java programming language and a wide range of databases. Like ODBC, it enables applications to access information in databases and repositories, exposed through a JDBC driver.

EMC Documentum JDBC Services allows direct access to content and metadata stored in the EMC Documentum repository and provided by EMC Documentum Content Server or EMC Documentum Site Caching Services. Typically, EMC Documentum customers use JDBC Services to dynamically deliver personalized content to any J2EE-compliant application server or portal.

Common Criteria Certification is a program established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) that evaluates information technology (IT) product conformance to international security standards. The Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) program evaluates adherence to Common Criteria.

To gain compliance, a product’s security features are evaluated by an accredited commercial testing lab using Common Evaluation methodology. This is followed by independent validation of evaluation results by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP). The NIAP-CCEVS Validation Body assesses the results of security evaluations and issues Common Criteria certificates to those meeting the criteria. The certificate, along with the validation report, demonstrates conformance to Common Criteria.

The security features of EMC Documentum Content Server v5.3 and EMC Documentum Administrator v5.3 were successfully validated on December 21, 2005, achieving Evaluation Assurance Level 2 (EAL2) conformance.