Content Hub Appliance

"Our content hub helps companies increase architecture flexibility and simplicity and therefore control the integration costs of enterprise applications and content repositories."
Nicolas Maquaire, EntropySoft CEO

 


Work with multiple content repositories

Most organizations have an intricate combination of information technology to support operations, management, and decision-making. It is made of line-of-business applications and products like search engines, BPM solutions, social software and many others. These products and applications are producers and consumers of documents.

  Content Hub

It is crucial to connect simply the producers and consumers of information to all document repositories.

Beside the connectivity concern, companies of all sizes have the same need to move documents, for example to archive documents in a centralized platform or to synchronize documents in two distant repositories.

IT departments are therefore faced with the following challenges:
- grant consumers and producers an easy access to all content repositories
- deliver cross-repository features like federated search to vertical applications
- manage common document transfers

EntropySoft’s answer to the above challenges is Content Hub Appliance. This Appliance enables two things: a single point of access to all content silos and the easy transfer of documents.

A single point of access

Content Hub Appliance is a single platform that provides out-of-the-box connectivity for 40 applications. In a few clicks, an administrator can connect the organization’s document repositories to the hub. Immediately, the repositories become available to all consumers or producers of information in the company. All connectors are deployed in one location. All consumers or producers are sharing the same set of connectors. Connectivity updates and upgrades also become easier to implement.

Since Content Hub Appliance is connected to all company repositories, it is also very useful to manage cross-repository features. For example, the server implements a simple programmatic search capacity, based on an SQL-like query language. With the same query language, producers and consumers can search in all company resources.

Content Hub Appliance exposes a rich set of programmable interfaces to connect the producers and consumers. Content Hub Appliance provides an access to all the connected repositories through the EntropySoft Web Services, CMIS (Web Services and REST implementations), Java, java remote and .Net. EntropySoft Content Hub Appliance is extremely useful when adopting a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Moving documents

For the past five years, by working with large corporate clients, EntropySoft has developed two domains of expertise that it is ready to share.

The first expertise domain is to connect any document management system to any archiving platform; the second one is to synchronize two document repositories. Thanks to content transfer bridge templates that can be provided by EntropySoft, it is now a question of hours to be ready to synchronize two silos or connect applications to an archiving platform.
Archiving electronic documents can be implemented either in cloud repositories or in enterprise-class applications (Iron Mountain Digital Archiving, Symantec Enterprise Vault etc…).

Synchronizing two previously non-compatible repositories drastically changes collaboration work. All company departments work with their specific applications. There is little chance that you are using the same document management system as the person you are working with. Different teams use different applications. However, it is increasingly important to share information quickly.
The solution is to synchronize the relevant parts of the different repositories.

For example, a team in New York is managing its documents with EMC Documentum. Another team of the same company is using Microsoft SharePoint. It is crucial for both teams to work on the same documents. The ideal solution is to synchronize both repositories. There is no impact on users, everyone continues to work as usual and everyone has access to the right information at the right moment.

This synchronization process can also be done across the firewall to synchronize the repositories of two commercial partners, or to synchronize an ECM SaaS application with an internal repository.

EntropySoft enables easy access to information and changes the rules of collaboration.

 

 

Benefits

Simplify access to documents

Share connectors between all applications

Archive to cloud repositories or enterprise-class applications

Synchronize two repositories

Available documents

Connectors in the Labs

SalesForce
Google Docs
Open Text Artesia

Available connectors

Alfresco
DS Enovia MatrixOne
EMC Documentum CenterStage
EMC Documentum Content Server
EMC Documentum eRoom
File Systems NTLM
FTP
HP Trim Context
IBM Content Manager
IBM DB2 Content Manager OD
IBM FileNET Content Services
IBM FileNET Image Services
IBM FileNET P8
IBM Lotus Notes
IBM Lotus Quickplace
IBM Lotus QuickR
IBM Lotus WCM
IBM WebSphere Portal PDM
Interwoven TeamSite
Interwoven WorkSite NT
I.R.I.S. Archea
Iron Mountain Digital Safe
JCR
Microsoft Exchange 2003,07,10
Microsoft Sharepoint 2003,07,10
Open Text eDocs (Humm. DM)
Open Text LiveLink
Open Text Vignette
Oracle Stellent Universal CM
Symantec Enterprise Vault
WebDAV server
Xerox Docushare

Updated: August 2010