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Seamless Interoperability Between PTC Arbortext and IBM FileNet P8

Most organizations today are faced with an ever-increasing amount of information that is managed in disparate repositories and file systems throughout the company. Furthermore, regardless of whether information is stored in a single repository, there are frequently multiple copies of the same information because different departments use the content in different documents delivered in different mediums.

The Arbortext/FileNet Adapter developed by Oberon Technologies enables you to maximize the benefits of using IBM® FileNet® P8—a unified enterprise content management and business process management system—to manage all your corporate information in a single source repository while expanding and improving content reuse and publishing with PTC® Arbortext® Editor and Publishing Engine—widely considered the Cadillac of XML-based publishing.

By providing a seamless interface between PTC Arbortext and IBM FileNet P8, the adapter can help your organization improve reuse, collaboration and publishing. With this adapter, users can create, capture and reuse information in XML, manage that information in FileNet P8, and automatically publish that information to multiple types of media.

About the Arbortext/FileNet Adapter

The Arbortext/FileNet Adapter provides seamless interoperability between PTC Arbortext and IBM FileNet P8 allowing PTC Arbortext users to interact with FileNet P8 from within the authoring environment. The key repository functions supported by the adapter include:

Connecting to the FileNet P8 repository from within PTC Arbortext
Browsing
Check-in/check-out
Editing, renaming or deleting files
Searching
Revision control

The adapter enables users to create and manage topic-level information that can be reused in a variety of compound documents. And because information is stored at the topic level, multiple authors can simultaneously work on different parts of the same document.

Key Benefits of the Arbortext/FileNet Adapter

The key business benefits provided by the Arbortext/FileNet Adapter developed by Oberon Technologies include:

Improved Authoring Productivity and Collaboration – Creating and managing information at the topic level enables you to reuse the same content objects in multiple compound documents. Topic-level authoring improves productivity by enabling you to reuse, rather than recreate, information across multiple documents. In addition, it allows multiple authors to work on the same document at the same time by editing different content topics that are used in the same compound document.
Reduced Cost and Time of Publishing – With a "single source of truth," you only need to update content in the source file to ensure that the information is updated everywhere it is used. This eliminates the need for manual updates to multiple versions of the same information. Updates are made more quickly and with less overall effort.
Better Information Quality – Let's face it. When you have to manage multiple versions of the same information, things are going to fall between the cracks. But when you are maintaining your information from a single source, you can be assured that changes to the source will update all instances of the information accurately and consistently.

Summary

The Arbortext/FileNet Adapter developed by Oberon Technologies provides a seamless integration between PTC Arbortext and IBM FileNet P8 to help your organization improve reuse, collaboration and content maintenance, enable interoperatiblity, and make users more productive.

Contact us if you'd like additional information or a live demo of the Arbortext/FileNet Adapter, Arbortext products or XML-based automated publishing solutions.

Visit the PTC website for more information about PTC and Arbortext.

Visit the IBM website for more information about IBM and FileNet P8.