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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... EMC/Documentum 6 Web Content Management

"There are many advantages to storing content as native objects (several other CMS packages, like Zope and Ingeniux, do this), but you should understand that this is the first of several places where you enter a kind of netherworld of Documentum-specific interfaces and query languages. For example, you access the Content Server using "DQL," short for Documentum Query Language. If Content Server is storing XML, you access it through "XDQL," rather than standard XML can openers like XPath and XQuery. "

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EMC-Documentum announces Page Builder module

14-Sep-2006

Like most "ECM" vendors, EMC|Documentum struggles to keep up with the features available in pure-play Web CMS tools. Yesterday, the company announced the forthcoming (Q4, actually) arrival of a new module called "Page Builder." We review Page Builder in the latest version of The CMS Report. Like similar offerings from competitors, Page Builder is designed to support drag-and-drop template editing and editorial configuration of dynamic elements. But the version we saw -- to be sure, still in beta -- seemed quite underbaked, and there was still no way to avoid Documentum's very own query language ("DQL"). Making their Web Publisher product more business user friendly is a step in the right direction for Documentum, but I remain unconvinced that the company truly understands contemporary web standards...

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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