IBM today announced new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that are designed to help organizations achieve greater business agility and workplace effectiveness. Recognizing the need for more nimble,adaptable technology, IBM's agile ECM portfolio provides improved flexibility to help business users respond faster to changing business requirements. The new solutions will allow customers to optimize content-based operational and compliance processes. Unifying content, process and compliance capabilities in a new composite application framework, IBM's agile ECM enables clients to quickly solve increasingly complex business problems. Using a flexible, services-oriented environment, clients can now deploy solution applications within days instead of months. With this new offering, IBM is helping clients accelerate time-to-value, improving end-user accessibility and allowing business professionals to optimize their content-based processes...

IBM FileNet Content Manager 4.5 is designed to provide clients with a scalable, single content catalog that embeds IBM's content-centric BPM and compliance capabilities into an ECM platform operating on content in multiple repositories. The enhanced FileNet Content Manager enables intuitive integration with Lotus Quickr, Microsoft Office 2007, and Microsoft SharePoint, allowing users choice while interacting with and benefiting from ECM capabilities. FileNet Content Manager has also implemented a component-based content model leveraging the DITA XML standard, now broadly adopted in the industry for advanced document management applications. DITA supports agility through the reuse ofdocument components in support of diverse authoring and publishing requirements. 

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