EMC Launches Documentum OEM Edition For Partner Apps
"We looked at building this technology internally, but it would have been very expensive," said Nasser Barghouti, CTO of software and services firm Document Sciences in Carlsbad, Calif. "Having this OEM edition cuts a lot of our R&D costs."
EMC's Documentum OEM Edition will be available by the end of the year, with "flexible" licensing terms that EMC said will be adapted to match the pricing model of the host application. Document Sciences, one the first partners to begin kicking the tires of the new product, plans to embed the software in its own xPression suite of customer communication management software.
Document Sciences expects to sell its expanded xPression suite to customers that don't currently have an enterprise content management (ECM) platform in place. Other partners are building add-ons for the OEM edition itself. Daybreak ICS, an ECM solution provider in Williston, Vt., is readying its eCapture tool as an optional addition to the new software.
"We think this [OEM edition] will hit the middle space and provide a scalable solution," said Kara Cleaver, Daybreak's president.
EMC, based in Hopkinton, Mass., acquired ECM specialist Documentum three years ago. The ECM market has become a hot M&A battleground lately, with IBM buying FileNet and Oracle scooping up Stellent.