Documentum clients, which one is prefer ?

Hi, i'm new to Documentum, please give me clarity regarding Documentum.

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elboukhari

Hi,

to add a word to all the previous answers.

i guess that the decision/choice you'll have to make is driven not by what Client you like/prefer but what is needed by your Project.

if you are having a Content management or Document driven need you may chose D2 since it is ( in my opnion) the Content management reference solution

if you having a Case management need you may choose XCP

we may help more if we have an idea about what kind of need you want to adresse using documentum product Suite.

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Geks

D2 - if no any custom development for GUI

xCP2 - if build the all in GUI - custom light development, (drag-and-drop required widgets in blank application pages), as Portal and Portlets

xCP1 - customizing existing GUI, have a good toutorial, ... but partial not work in many new Browsers (IE 10,11, Google, FireFox)

Alvaro_de_Andres

Depending on your needs:

Configurable, barely customizable (as in "custom development"), mainly IE-oriented -> D2
If you need a more-than-tested (does not mean bug free ) and heavily customizable, with tons of documentation and examples -> WDK
If your client is manly using business processes and not browsing through documents -> xCP 1.x (for documentum <=6.7), or xCP 2 (Documentum >= 7 or if you like the adventure)
If you only need a couple of options and a "light" client, your best bet would probably be a custom client using either DFC or any web service available (dfs, rest, cmis)

lastnitescurry

CMIS - Open standard, Documentum 6.7+ supports.

http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/solution-overview/h4555-cmis-so.pdf

Windows Desktop Clients - for more feature rich end user experience

http://www.emc.com/enterprise-content-management/my-documentum.htm

Documentum 7+ supports REST services.

Documentum 6+ supports web services via DFS

Francois Dauberlieu

Alvaro,

Your D2 description is accurate if you;r etalking about D2 3.1, D2 4, especially 4.2, is very customizable (I'm not saying it's wasy though) and it is for all browsers supporting Java

For the rest, I agree with you

My 2 cents...

Alvaro_de_Andres


Francois Dauberlieu wrote:

Alvaro,
Your D2 description is accurate if you;r etalking about D2 3.1, D2 4, especially 4.2, is very customizable (I'm not saying it's wasy though) and it is for all browsers supporting Java

For the rest, I agree with you

My 2 cents...

I know, I've done some development with 4.2. However, for 4.1 it was stated that you could develop customitazions, but that the API could change without warning in the next versions. As long as we don't have a "stable"/"completely migrated from the original ie-only 3.1" I don't consider it suitable for (heavy) customizations. Besides, you still need at least one machine with IE to run D2-Config.

Francois Dauberlieu

Good point.

FYI, we have been doing some pretty heavy development on 4.1 and it seems it works fine with 4.2, without even recompiling or changing a line of code so I guess, there's not been too many changes in the API.

elboukhari

Hi,

to add a word to all the previous answers.

i guess that the decision/choice you'll have to make is driven not by what Client you like/prefer but what is needed by your Project.

if you are having a Content management or Document driven need you may chose D2 since it is ( in my opnion) the Content management reference solution

if you having a Case management need you may choose XCP

we may help more if we have an idea about what kind of need you want to adresse using documentum product Suite.