Documentum Webinar on Collaboration in Government

Documentum hosted a webinar today on Collaboration in Business, arecording of which is available from the Documentum web site.  It was focused more specifically on how Documentum eRoom 6 and 7 could be used in a cross-agency environment.

Key points:

• Documentum eRoom provides an individual workspace for projects. This is a structured set of documents, discussion threads and calendar events, among others, for a project group or team.


• Government is a key sector of focus because existing cross-agency collaboration technology doesn't work.


• eRoom provides universal access to all content, context and decision trails, with real-time and asynchronous communication tools, project templates, and integration with enterprise content management repositories. Roll-ups of various documents, issues, and tasks to anoverall summary view is possible.


• Whilst pricing was not discussed, neither Documentum's content management nor team collaboration offerings come cheap. Both attract top-of-the-line pricing.

The presenter was asked during Q&A who Documentum saw as their competitors. The pure-plays noted were Groove, Kubi Software andIntraspect ... a strange title for three quite diverse companies. OpenTextwas noted as a "collaboration vendor", and Microsoft (with SharePoint) and IBM Lotus (with Notes/Domino and QuickPlace) were also noted. I see Intraspect as having the most complete competitive offering, in particular its Project Delivery and Program Management Office offering.