PLEASANTON, Calif., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Documentum, the leading provider of enterprise content management and a division of EMC Corporation , today announced that Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a leading international publisher of professional health information for physicians, nurses, specialized clinicians and students and part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has selected Documentum 5, the latest version of the Documentum ECM platform. LWW chose Documentum to create, manage, deliver and archive content assets associated with publishing textbooks, CD-ROMS and some Internet-based products. Documentum was selected for its industry-leading scalability, powerful workflow technology and XML capabilities.
Looking for time-to-market benefits through the use of XML, LWW will use Documentum 5 to create and publish XML content and repurpose it across multiple web sites and initiatives. Documentum 5 offers powerful search capabilities across content and metadata and can apply workflows to the XML content, which were critical factors to LWW's decision.
"Our publishing team selected the Documentum for the totality of its platform," said Ann Michael, executive director, Electronic Strategy and Product Development, Wolters Kluwer Health Division, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. "Documentum offers rich out-of-box functionality, such as web-enabled XML content creation templates, that will substantially enhance our operational efficiency and time to market. Documentum showed a keen understanding of our business and the publishing industry, demonstrating a powerful solution to meet our demanding requirements."
"Documentum XML management capabilities bring business productivity to a new level, and Documentum's leadership in XML is validated in LWW's reasons for selecting our platform," said Dave DeWalt, president of the Documentum software division of EMC. "Documentum is pleased to add LWW to our fast-growing list of customers in the publishing industry."
Documentum Powers the Publishing Industry
In addition to Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Documentum has nearly 40 customers in the publishing industry, including DG Verlag eG, Follett Custom Publishing, Harvard Business School Publishing, Houghton Mifflin Company, McGraw-Hill, Modus Media International, Reed Elsevier Inc, Reuters, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Inc. and Simon & Schuster. These companies use the Documentum ECM platform and its powerful XML management capabilities to reduce costs and cycle times, easily repurpose content and intelligently manage the vast amounts of digital content.
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer (Euronext Amsterdam: WKL) is a leading multinational information services company based in the Netherlands. The company's core markets are Health, Tax, Accounting, Corporate & Financial Services, Legal/Regulatory and Education. Wolters Kluwer has annual revenues (2002) of more than EUR 3.9 billion, employing almost 20,000 people and activities in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit http://www.wolterskluwer.com/
About Documentum
Documentum, a division of EMC Corporation, provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes. Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration. With a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents and discussions to email, Web pages, records and rich media. The Documentum platform makes it possible for companies to distribute all of this content in multiple languages, across internal and external systems, applications and user communities. As a result, Documentum's customers, which include thousands of the world's most successful organizations, harness corporate knowledge, accelerate time to market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance supply chain efficiencies and reduce operating costs, improving their overall competitive advantage. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at http://www.documentum.com/.
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