Your users demand rapid access to data and content to help drive better business outcomes. However, siloed content repositories present numerous concerns for organizations, including accessibility, mobility and compliance issues.
To address these challenges and provide a unified interface for all content repositories, IBM released Content Navigator. This free, web-based application provides a flexible, collaborative user interface to access and manage content from all IBM content repositories, including Content Manager, Content Manager OnDemand, FileNet P8 and CMIS-compliant repositories. Customizable through a complete API toolkit, IBM Content Navigator is designed to support custom plug-in development to allow users to extend their content management investments through enhanced functionality and application integrations.
Learn how your organization can most effectively deploy IBM Content Navigator to extract the greatest value from your IBM enterprise content management environment.
We discuss:
Functional and architectural overviews of IBM Content Navigator
Application deployment and integration best practices
Use cases for custom plug-ins
Demonstrations of IBM Content Navigator and custom plug-ins
Extend IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions with Content Navigator
1. Extend IBM Enterprise Content
Management Solutions with
Content Navigator
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2. Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout
North America.
We help clients implement business-driven technology solutions that integrate business
processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create a more agile
enterprise to better respond to new business opportunities.
About Perficient
3. • Founded in 1997
• Public, NASDAQ: PRFT
• 2013 revenue ~$373 million
• Major market locations throughout North America
• Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fairfax, Houston,
Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New
York City, Northern California, Philadelphia, Southern
California, St. Louis, Toronto and Washington, D.C.
• Global delivery centers in China, Europe and India
• >2,100 colleagues
• Dedicated solution practices
• ~90% repeat business rate
• Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors
• Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards
Perficient Profile
4. BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Business Intelligence
Business Process Management
Customer Experience and CRM
Enterprise Performance Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Experience Design (XD)
Management Consulting
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Business Integration/SOA
Cloud Services
Commerce
Content Management
Custom Application Development
Education
Information Management
Mobile Platforms
Platform Integration
Portal & Social
Our Solutions Expertise
5. Introduction
Christine Livingston
Senior Project Manager
Christine Livingston leads Perficient's advanced case
management practice and works in collaboration with IBM
to develop industry-leading solutions that incorporate
IBM's case management, enterprise content management
and business process management technologies.
6. Agenda
• Introduction
– Who is Perficient?
– What is IBM Content Navigator?
– How does IBM Content Navigator compare to previous tools?
• Overview
– How do I add Content Navigator?
– What features does Content Navigator provide?
• Extensions and Customization
– How can we leverage the full capabilities of IBM Content
Navigator?
• Demonstration
7. IBM Content Navigator Overview
IBM Content Navigator is a web-based application that provides
a flexible, collaborative user interface for accessing and
managing content from multiple content repositories. IBM
Content Navigator is extensible and customizable through a
complete API toolkit, and supports mobile access.
IBM Content Navigator supports:
IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition repositories
IBM Content Manager OnDemand repositories
IBM FileNet P8 repositories
OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) repositories
8. Capabilities Comparison
Feature IDMDT WPXT ICN
Architecture Thick client Web app Web app
Document index search
User‐created dynamic searches
Sortable results columns
MS Office integration
Recent searches view
Full‐text search
Send document link via email
Save items as favorites
Workflow integration
Document preview/thumbnail
Side‐by‐side document view
Content sharing (Teamspaces)
Convert to PDF
Download multiple documents as ZIP
Mobile device support
Cross‐repository search
11. Supported Software
• Windows
• Linux
• AIX
Operating Systems Web Browsers
• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
Application Servers
• Oracle WebLogic
• WebSphere Application
Server
Hypervisors
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server
• Red Hat KVM
• VMWare ESX
• z/VM
• IBM PowerVM Hypervisor
• IBM PR/SM
Databases
• DB2
• Oracle
• Microsoft SQL Server
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12. Content Accessibility
• Search for content
• Share searches
• View documents
• Edit document properties
• Add annotations
• Email documents and links
• Print documents
• Download documents
• Thumbnail previews
• Convert content to PDF
• Leverage external data
services
• Browse content
• Execute text searches
• Save documents, folders, and
other content as favorites
• Edit documents
• Add documents to content
servers
• Create folders
• Enable document versioning
• Create teamspaces
• Favorite documents
Content Navigator Capabilities ICN with Content Manager
14. Content Analytics with Enterprise Search
• Useful for combining information from various repositories/sources into a
single “source” or search
• Map multiple information sources to a consolidated facet (metadata tag)
• Keyword searches across various sources/repositories
• Supports content management systems, email servers, file systems, web
servers, database platforms, portals, IBM Connections, etc.
Keyword
Search
Normalized
Indexes
15. Microsoft Office Integration
• Provides a heads-down MS
Office experience
– Browse
– Search
– Access teamspaces
– Review and approve
documents
• Seamless Content Addition
– Leverage entry templates
– Automatically map native
document properties to
repository properties
16. Mobile Functionality
• Browse and search content
• View content
• Add new content
• Send to/from other apps
• Edit document properties
Content Navigator for iOS
Mobile Toolkit
17. Extending Content Navigator with Plug-ins
• Menus
• Menu actions
• New features
• New layouts
• Request or response filters
• Custom services
• Custom viewers
• Custom widgets (UI components)
Custom plug-ins may be written in Java and JavaScript, optionally
leveraging the Dojo Toolkit and content repository APIs (P8, CM,
CMOD). Plug-ins may add any of the following components:
18. Perficient’s Datacap Plug-In
• Monitor Datacap server health
• Visualize real-time statistics
• Identify processing bottlenecks
• Retrieve and display batch history
19. Perficient’s Output eXpress Plug-In
• Print, email, fax, and export documents
• Convert documents to PDF
• Define output templates
• Centralize printing
• Extract page ranges
• Support bulk operations
Output eXpress is a Perficient utility that provides streamlined export
of electronic documents from various content repositories, and
includes a plug-in for IBM’s Content Navigator interface.
22. Thank You!
For more information contact:
Christine Livingston
christine.livingston@perficient.com
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