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EMC Documentum Magellan FAQ

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Summary

“Magellan Essentials” and “Magellan” are temporary code names for two new dynamic

Knowledge Worker clients designed for the Documentum 6 platform

The Magellan clients build on the new services orientation of the Documentum 6

platform by providing a modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) client to

communicatewith the platform via Web Services

Magellan will support web 2.0 functionality, such as wikis, blogs, social networking,

RSS feeds, tagging and more

Magellan represents the next generation eRoom, though eRoom will continue to be

supported and enhanced for many years to come

Webtop will continue to offer specialized content management services NOT available

in either Magellan client, and will remain the client of choice for advanced content

management users

The Magellan clients require the Documentum 6 Content Server or above

Magellan Essentials will be provided at no charge to existing Content Server

customers; Magellan will be a low cost offer that is price-competitive with SharePoint

The Magellan clients will interoperate with WDK-based clients, and a migration utility

will be available for customers that wish to migrate from eRoom to Magellan

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General

Question: What is Magellan?

Answer: Early in 2009, EMC Documentum will release a new client, temporarily

codenamed “Magellan,” that has been specifically designed for enterprise

Knowledge Workers. This new client will provide a dynamic user interface for

the EMC Documentum 6 Content Server. It is designed from the ground-up

using Web Services and is an attractive, easy-to-use, browser-based client

designed for widespread adoption within an organization. Magellan will

interoperate with other Documentum clients so user communities can use the

client that suits them best, while leveraging a common ECM infrastructure. A

“Magellan Essentials” client will be released late in the second half of 2008

that will provide basic content services at no cost to Content Server

customers.

To summarize, “Magellan” will be available in two forms:

“Magellan Essentials” - will be offered late in the second half of 2008 without

any client access license cost and will provide BCS (Basic Content Services –

check in/check out, versioning, lifecycle, etc.).

“Magellan” - will be offered early in 2009 and will provide support for team

collaboration, web 2.0 technologies, information intelligence, and mobile

access in addition to Magellan Essentials’ basic content services. Magellan’s

primary goals are to resolve the following problems that Knowledge Workers

routinely face:

Proliferation of information silos

Working in many dispersed teams

Finding relevant information quickly

Spotting relationships between types of information

Locating experts in different geographies efficiently

Personalizing, organizing, and sharing information

Ensuring information is secure

Adhering to IT and Legal requirements for compliance and governance

Question: Why are you introducing these new clients to the market?

Answer: The introduction of the Magellan clients builds on the new services orientation

of the Documentum 6 platform by providing a modern service-oriented

architecture (SOA) client that communicateswith the platform via Web

Services. A customer will receive immediate benefits including a better

performing and more efficient information infrastructure, easier client

customization, and quick access to modern UI frameworks such as wikis,

blogs, social networking, RSS feeds and more.

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Question: Does Magellan replace the Webtop client?

Answer: No. Webtop offers a variety of powerful ECM services that will not be

included in the Magellan clients. While Magellan addresses the most common

needs of many business users, customers requiring advanced ECM

functionality or highly customized services will prefer the Webtop client.

Magellan clients will not provide full feature parity with Webtop but will

include new capabilities not available in other Documentum clients such as

support for RSS feeds, tagging, blogs and wikis.

Question: Do the Magellan clients replace eRoom?

Answer: Yes. The Magellan clients represent the next generation of secure team

collaboration. While eRoom will be supported for many years to come, the

Magellan clients are intended to become the upgrade path for current eRoom

users. Magellan blends the ease-of-use of the eRoom user experience with an

updated user interface, support for new web 2.0 interaction patterns, and the

power and flexibility that are only available from the Documentum 6 Server.

Question: What kind of support will be made available for migrating to this new client?

Answer: EMC recognizes the importance of its installed customer base and is planning

an easy migration for current eRoom customers. In partnership with Crown

Partners, EMC will provide a migration utility free of charge to eRoom

customers leveraging Buldoser, the proven migration utility from Crown.

Question: Will Magellan be available in other languages?

Answer: Magellan will be localized into the same Tier 1 languages that are supported by

the Documentum platform today, including French, German, Italian, Japanese

and Korean.

Technology

Question: What kind of infrastructure is required to run Magellan?

Answer: Magellan supports the major SQL database platforms, UNIX, Linux, and MS

Windows operating systems, browsers, portals, application servers, and

development standards supported by the Documentum family of products.

With the Magellan products, EMC continues to provide the industry's only true

vendor agnostic information workplace architecture. The Magellan clients

leverage the Documentum Content Server and will require either version 6 or

the upcoming 6.5 release of the Content Server.

Question: Is Magellan interoperable with existing enterprise applications?

Answer: The Magellan clients will take into account existing applications such as WDK-

based clients and eRoom. WDK clients will be interoperable with both

Magellan clients. In addition, the Magellan clients will provide a replacement

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option for eRoom. EMC will provide easy migration capabilities to eRoom

customers. The Magellan clients will also be able to leverage other EMC

offerings for business applications including desktop integration, offline

support, productivity applications integration, SharePoint integrations and

mobile device support.

Question: I use eRoom as a standalone product today. Do you have a standalone version

of Magellan planned for customers that do not want to deploy a full

Documentum Content Server?

Answer: Standalone versions of the Magellan products are planned so customers

deploying Magellan within departments or mid-sized organizations can easily

start with a single-server installation, and expand to a multi-server or

enterprise-wide deployment over time. The standalone products will have full

upward compatibility with the Documentum Content Server so content and

configurations can be easily moved to the full Content Server product when

necessary.