For smaller organizations or departments running the whole Documentum suite on a single application, the cost could be somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000, she explains. At the opposite end of the spectrum, [theres] a 100,000-person company -- in that instance, you could be talking about multimillion dollars.
EMCs fire-hose of Documentum announcements comes after IT managers and CIOs have urged the vendor to boost the technology, citing the need for better user interfaces and growing pressure to link their data with other systems via SOAs.
Clearly, there is still plenty of scope for enhancements to Documentum, which competes with FileNet, now part of IBM.
Although he describes Documentum 6.5 as a giant leap forward for EMC, FirstCommands Campbell tells Byte and Switch that there are areas where he would like to see the vendor further enhance its product suite.
If there is anything that I would like to EMC to focus on, its definitely more in the area of XML integration and enhancing the search capabilities of Documentum, he says. Theres a new language called Sparkle, for example, thats taking things that dont connect and making them connect in a way that makes sense.