Developer Conference 2006

Registration and Breakfast

Keynote: Clay Mayers, Chief Technologist for EMC Captiva

Keynote: David Parry, Mclaren Software

Introduction to DFC

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 3 hours.

This session provides an overview of the Documentum Foundations Classes (DFC), demonstrating how the DFC is used in Documentum products. Participants will be introduced to session management, type-related interfaces and the operations package of DFC 5.
Note: This session will continue after lunch

Introduction to Business Objects Framework (BOF)

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 3 hours. (2 Parallel Sessions)

Documentum's Business Objects Framework (BOF) provides an environment for the efficient development of business applications by abstracting content management functionality as reusable components. This session introduces the components, framework, and methodology required to implement Documentum business objects.
Note: This session will continue after lunch

Introduction to Web Development Kit (WDK)

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 3 hours.

This session is intended for developers who have a familiarity with the Documentum server functionality but have not yet started programming with WDK. We'll introduce the WDK architecture, the programming model and look at application examples.
Note: This session will continue after lunch

ISV Integrations:Methods for Integrating Documentum with a 3rd-Party Enterprise Application

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This presentation focuses on technical issues with integrating Documentum to another enterprise application. Specific technical topics include folder synchronization, content synchronization, and translation of disparate security models. An overview of Documentum synergies with 3rd party apps and discussion of common integration points are also covered by this presentation.

Workflow Outsourcing with RESTful Web Services in PubFusion

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

Modern journal production spans the globe with numerous companies putting their comparative advantages to work in a shared workflow that produces high quality journals on a regular schedule for minimal cost. PubFusion provides a robust, yet conceptually simple Web Service interface that allows vendors and customers access into the PubFusion workflow and repository system with a streamlined API. Wolters-Kluwer and Flatirons Solutions chose RESTful Web Services to create a multiplatform API that allows vendors to integrate PubFusion into their existing automation systems simply and efficiently. RE.presentational S.tate T.ransformation is the fundamental technology of the World-Wide-Web applied to Workflow and Repository access. This talk will discuss REST at a high-level and then show how REST supplies a simplified model for integrating both Documentum and non-Documentum systems securely and simply. In today's competitive environment, monolithic integrations are a thing of the past. PubFusion and REST provides a flexible solution for excellence in a global game of productivity leapfrog.

Armedia WDK SCM System

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

Armedia will present a technical session around their custom WDK based source code management application, Armedia SCM.  This session will include discussions around product features, as well as lessons learned in regards to writing custom WDK applications. This session is appropriate for anyone who involved in WDK application design or development.

Putting on the Bags: A Developers Toolkit

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session will focus on Developer Tools for Documentum Applications. Developers will learn about various tools that can help them in building applications on the Documentum platform, and speed the development process.

Extending BPM to Support Digital Signatures

Category: Business Process Management / Security.

Duration: 1 hour.

The demand for digital signatures is increasing throughout the industry; as new standards are ratified we aim to support them through a standard set of BPM extensions. Using the Pharmaceutical industry’s SAFE standard as our first use case we have provided a set of extensions to BPM to support digital signatures. This session will be of interest to companies investigating any digital signature technology not just SAFE. It will be of interest to anyone writing BPM/BPS extensions as many of the best practices relate to any BPM-based application development.

New Web Publisher Page Builder

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

The new release of Web Publisher focuses on ease-of-use for the business user and provides a greater ability for non-technical to take an active role in managing individual sites, while leveraging the IT efficiencies of a centralized infrastructure. Learn more about Page Builder, an editor with a revolutionary design for two-dimensional WYSIWYG content editing and page layout. Business users have the flexibility to create new content, embed external content components and change the layout by adding columns and rows. Web Publisher Contributor UI is a new interface specifically designed for non-technical users streamlining and providing dashboard views of the content creation and publishing process. The presentation focuses on the underlying architecture and potential customization, as well as the overall capabilities and product demonstration

XML Content Server & XQuery: Technologies to accelerate the delivery of content applications to the enterprise

Category: Content Management

Duration: 1 hour.

Challenges related to content integration, reuse, search and delivery are driving many organizations to adopt XML as the standard for representing, storing, and delivering content. For these organizations XQuery is becoming the standard programming language for creating applications that are based on content. In this session we will discuss how a XML content server and XQuery can add highly scalable, fine-grained XML capabilities to a Documentum implementation.

Lunch

Partner Showcase

Stop by the booths of some of our partners and learn about the exciting products and developments they have to offer.

Unit Testing DFC Code

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

Writing effective JUnit tests for DFC code can be difficult, especially when issues like security, setting up docbase state, and tearing down docbase state are taken into consideration. This presentation discusses the obstacles and provides a basic framework for testing DFC code.

Java DMCL

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session wil discuss details about the new Java DMCL, how it fits into DFC and what this means for developers.

Wikis in Collaboration

Category: Collaboration.

Duration: 1 hour.

Explore what makes a Wiki a tool for Collaboration- its strengths, and its weaknesses. Explore how these capabilities can be implemented within the Documentum Collaborative Edition (DCE) platform and leverage the strengths of the Content Server while easing access to information for your users.

Architecture Track: Content Capture

Duration: 1 hour.

Much of the important data across the enterprise is located as unstructured content in paper based documents. This session will focus on understanding how to incorporate image capture into enterprise applications, and leveraging images in content-centric applications based on EMC Platforms

Break

Face-to-Face

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to talk one-on-one with the engineers who develop our products, the product managers who set product direction, the gang who provide technical support and others key members of the EMC team.

Break

Off Site - Exploratorium

Join us on Monday, November 13th for a trip to the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco. A scientist’s dream, this expansive and unique museum will give you a chance to experience the Great San Francisco Earthquake; explore the science behind our favorite sports; discover how researchers study climate changes; learn about biodiversity; and see and touch hundreds of hands-on exhibits. We will enjoy a wonderful International dinner with plenty of drink and refreshment to go around.

Breakfast & Keynote

Keynote: Razmik Abnous, Chief Architect, VP Technology & Founding Engineer Documentum

Building Applications using the WDK

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 3 1/2 hours.

Learn how to extend the WDK framework including advanced component architecture and beyond. This hands-on session allows you to investigate common customer requirements and then customize WDK components, actions, controls and other parts of the framework to solve them.

Developing Applications with DFC/BOF/Web Services

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 3 1/2 hours. (2 Parallel Sessions)

This technical session consists of lecture, hands-on labs and discussion. You should have DFC programming experience in order to get the most out of this session. Topics will include generating web services from SBOs using the Web Services Framework, business object packaging and deployment using Documentum Application Builder and more.

Forms Overview

Category: Content Management / Business Process Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

The forms solution is an easy to use, declarative tool for incorporating forms into your content applications. In this session, we will cover the forms features in the 5.3 product, including new features available in the latest service packs. We will cover the extension model and demo some examples for configuration and customization. We will also share our plans for future enhancements.

Developing Java Adapters with the Smarts Remote API

Category: Resource Management

Duration: 2 hours.

Attendees will learn the basics of writing a Java adapter using the Smarts Remote API. Topics to be covered include a review of Smarts Application Architecture, an Introduction to the Java Remote API, writing Java code to retrieve model information from a Smarts application, retrieving topology information from a Smarts application, invoking operations and subscribing to events.

Developing with EMC Documentum Retention Policy Services

Category: Compliance.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session provides an in-depth look at EMC Documentum Retention Policy Services (RPS), our industry-leading solution for records retention management. An overview of how RPS functionality can be extended to meet customer needs will be presented. A sample customization using the RPS Public API will be provided and explained. Experience with Java programming is recommended to better understand the customization example.

ECIS Product Overview

Category: Search.

Duration: 1 hour.

Discover how to simplify access to multiple enterprise application contents. This session will provide you with an overview of the current status of search and content discovery in EMC Documentum as well as insight into the coming releases.

Advanced Security Models for ILM

Category: Security.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session is for Architects and technical managers/project managers; it focuses on customers that need to work in an environment that requires high levels of security. This session covers how to secure you content focusing on the Documentum platform. We will also look at Brava! and the Authentica products. Topics will include security models in Documentum, IRM, Email archiving security, Web Services/SOA, certificates, ACLs, common criteria, security BOF components, Chinese Walls, auditing and more!

Architecture Track: Collaboration

Duration: 2 hours.

Learn to incorporate functionality around collaborative processes into applications based on EMC infrastructure. Understand considerations in application design and development based on the architectural direction and product roadmap. There will be deep focus on the coming model for collaboration development, a custom solutions overview, architecture and feature set and building collaborative applications that will migrate.

Embedded Content Server: Release 1, the OEM Edition

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session will cover the aspects of an exciting new direction for Documentum, the Embedded Program. Intended as an overview of the program, the session will cover the direction and strategy around the Embedded program, the offerings for developers, the various items in the Bill of Materials, and the roadmap. Developers will have the opportunity to ask questions about deployment capabilities, administration, and sizing aspects of the first release and to suggest other items for consideration in future releases. The session will share information about known issues, any benchmark data, and tuning items as available at the time of the session.

Documentum Product Roadmap

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session focusses on the future direction of Documentum technology products.

Web Publisher Customizations: User Interface, Site Navigation, Site Wizard & more

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

The demands for Web sites to be highly differentiated and unique to certain business processes has driven Web publishing to be defined differently from customer to customer. This presentation looks at a few Web publishing best practices and many of the customizations used to meet their business needs, including Web Publisher interface, web publishing workflows, site creation processes and so forth. The presentation also looks at the role of the Documentum roadmap and how customization work across releases.

Site Delivery Services: Flexible Range of Delivery - From Static To Dynamic Content

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

Many sites, many delivery options. Looking across the spectrum of business needs, today companies have a variety of ways in which web content interacts with their customers, partners and employees. Flexibility is key and viewed from a few different perspectives: 1. content transformations – JSP, Struts, ASP, as well as multiple transformations for multiple sites, 2. global infrastructure – globally distributed sites, 3. highly available sites and 4. Web applications. Learn about your options and learn from best practices.

Extending eRoom

Category: Collaboration.

Duration: 2 hours.

Explore the tools and technologies for extending eRoom, integrating into other systems and expanding its capabilities. We will examine what technologies can be used ,including .Net, Web Services, XML and examine best practices and common solutions for adding in additional capabilities to your eRoom deployment.

Developing Document and Image Processing Applications

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session is for architects and developers to learn how to take advantage of the new features coming in D6 to build and deploy applications that incorporate Document Imaging, Forms, BPM, and Enterprise Reports. There will be a special focus on our new highly-configurable client as well as Web Services

EMC Smarts: Architecture, Roadmap and Development Tools

Category: Resource Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session will introduce you to the Smarts product suite and product roadmap to manage networks, servers, applications and storage in order to deliver holistic business service assurance management. It will also clarify the Smarts architecture and the capabilities it offers in the context of managing enterprise information. It will explain the Smarts products by overview, and delve into adapters, the SDK and offer some case studies.

Application Performance and Tuning

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

We will discuss some of the latest insights into EMC Documentum performance for partners touching on both Client and Server topics. The areas of discussion will include performance test results, tuning, and sizing. The product focus will include Full-text indexing, distributed Content enhancements, Webtop, and large system scaling. The release focus will be 5.3, D6, and beyond.

Architecture Track: Information Security

Duration: 1 hour.

Todays $20 billion security market highlights the growing security problems challenging the enterprise. This session will illustrate how you can mitigate risk, secure your assets and secure your information both inside and outside the repository. The topic will include discussion on Digital Rights Management, Content Encryption and the Common Security Platform.

Architecture Track: Records Management

Duration: 1 hour.

EMC Documentum offers a unified platform for composite applications. This session highlights the advantages of the modular, service-oriented architecture that forms the foundation of the Retention Policy Services and Records Manager products. In particular, this session will explain how the EMC Documentum platform is leveraged. The extensible framework provided by these products will also be outlined.

Lunch

Webtop Update

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session will cover the latest features and functions contained in the upcoming Webtop 6 release. This session includes an extensive question and answer period to discuss the product and its future direction.

Documentum Product Roadmap

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session focusses on the future direction of Documentum technology products.

Performance and Tuning Q&A

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session is a small, highly interactive group discussion covering Performance and Tuning topics. The session will be tabled by performance gurus from Documentum.

Exploring the Web Services Framework within BOF

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session covers the Documentum Platform and the resources available for building efficient web services. We’ll cover the Web Services Framework and walk thru the process of building web services from BOF development thru deployment. We’ll also share a bit on changes coming in the D6 release.

Architecture Track: What is the Common Management Platform (CMP)?

Category: EMC Platform.

Duration: 1 hour.

The term common management encompasses a number of initiatives that are critical to EMC’s continued success as a business. Common management from the EMC perspective represents an internal desire to improve the development process for management applications by shortening development time and reducing the overall cost of creating and supporting each new product.

The topic of this session is to introduce the Common Management Platform (CMP). This a set of shared tools and application components that allow existing and future EMC management applications to benefit from a unifying architecture, a proven development process, reusable software libraries, and an enterprise domain model (ECIM). The CMP provides groups engaged in active product development with the tools needed to reduce time to market, increase quality, decrease costs through code reuse, adhere to EMC and industry standards, and improve TCE through the use of a consistent, interoperable, and powerful architecture. In short, the CMP brings common management into EMC’s everyday operations.

The Evolution of ECM Solutions

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

Historically enterprises have attempted to solve their information management challenges by standardizing on a single content management solution, however, it is now widely recognized that this is an unattainable goal. Constantly changing IT infrastructures and the simple fact that localized information management needs are often uniquely served by very specific applications, not a corporate standard, are driving enterprises to allow for application variety that meets the requirements of a distributed and diverse organization. In this session we will discuss the evolution of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions; discussing how content management capabilities are being repurposed in information infrastructure products reducing the risk, cost, and complexity of information management and how content management solutions will continue to evolve into a platform that manages information where ever it lives.

Leveraging Authentica IRM within Documentum

Category: Content Management / Security.

Duration: 1 hour.

The Documentum Information Rights Management (IRM) technologies have been integrated into Documentum 5.3. Through this integration, IRM protection can be automatically applied to content managed in the Documentum repository, ensuring that content remains protected and under the control of Documentum ACL’s even after it has been removed from the repository. IRM protection can be applied by virtue of a file being linked into a specially configure folder or by utilizing IRM methods or procedures exposed to workflows or lifecycles. This presentation will discuss the IRM extensions to D5.3. It will focus on the high-level concepts behind the integration, how it is configured, the use cases and business value afforded, and how it interacts with other aspects of the Documentum system.

WDK/Webtop Best UI Practices & D6 Roadmap

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

In this session, members of the User Experience Group will discuss the technical aspects of customizing the front end, the best place for locating custom functionality and the best UI Design approach for you to take. In addition, the latter portion of the session will cover planned changes from the current product to the D6 release and describe techniques to facilitate migration.

EMC Documentum Content Server and Archive Server Overview

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

EMC Documentum Content Server is the foundation that enables EMC Documentum solutions. This session summarizes the new improvements in 5.3 service packs and introduces the new features and enhancements planned for the Documentum 6 release. In particular this session will also discuss Archive Server, technology evolution of Documentum Content Server focused on the specific performance, security and storage optimization requirements of archiving applications.

Architecture Track: Business Process Management (BPM)

Duration: 1 hour.

The creation and management of enterprise information involved both collaborative and production processes. This architect track will center on how to best utilize EMC BPM capabilities to build process-centric applications that also manage content. It will cover a comprehensive survey of BPM facilities including Documentum and Proactivity, and offer architectural guidance for leveraging BPM in applications built on EMC infrastructure

Add Web Services to your Search Experience

Category: Search.

Duration: 1 hour.

This topic would demonstrate how to integrate a web service as a searchable information source into Webtop using the ECI Adapter Builder.

EMC Documentum Content Server and Archive Server Overview

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

EMC Documentum Content Server is the foundation that enables EMC Documentum solutions. This session summarizes the new improvements in 5.3 service packs and introduces the new features and enhancements planned for the Documentum 6 release. In particular this session will also discuss Archive Server, technology evolution of Documentum Content Server focused on the specific performance, security and storage optimization requirements of archiving applications.

EMC Control Center 101

Category: Resource Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

ControlCenter is EMC’s market-leading Storage Resource Management (SRM) product, providing monitoring, reporting, planning and provisioning capabilities for EMC customers. In this session you’ll learn about the suite of ControlCenter’s products, an overview of their features and function and how the product is used to manage customer’s storage environments. The architecture, data model and deployment of ControlCenter will also be discussed along with an emphasis on existing product integration and the various APIs.

WDK/Webtop Best UI Practices & D6 Roadmap

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

In this session, members of the User Experience Group will discuss the technical aspects of customizing the front end, the best place for locating custom functionality and the best UI Design approach for you to take. In addition, the latter portion of the session will cover planned changes from the current product to the D6 release and describe techniques to facilitate migration.

Planning your Documentum 6 Deployment

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session prepares you for a streamlined, easy EMC Documentum 6 deployment. Learn tips for successful deployments and exciting new features and platforms. Find out about EMC policies for versioning products and supporting underlying platforms-such as OS, RDBMS, and AS-and browsers to allow you to plan for Documentum 6.

Webtop Update

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session will cover the latest features and functions contained in the upcoming Webtop 6 release. This session includes an extensive question and answer period to discuss the product and its future direction.

Implementing DITA and Other XML Solutions in Documentum

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

The DITA standard introduces a new paradigm in authoring and managing XML content in a topic-oriented manner. Unlike previous standards such as DocBook, DITA allows for reuse of XML content by organizing it into smaller topic files, and allowing those topics to be referenced by "maps" and "conrefs". It also includes more rigorous metadata standards to allow topics to be more easily found and reused across multiple outputs. This talk will show you best practices for implementing the DITA standard within Documentum, and compare it to other XML-based implementations such as DocBook.

EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager (ADM)

Category: Resource Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session will cover a technical overview of the ADM solution including the ADM discovery methodology and the unique hybrid discovery technologies used, business application discovery, reporting and analytics, and change tracking policies. In addition, the session will also provide a few key use cases on how the product is positioned and used in the market today.

EmailXtender/Archive Services for Email

Category: Archiving.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session will look at the EmailXtender and Archive Services for Email solutions and how they work with the Documentum repository. Topics will include best practices, new features, implementation and design approaches, the new EMC mail format, eDiscovery, reporting, auditing, DocBase architecture and design and more!

Developing with EMC Documentum Retention Policy Services

Category: Compliance.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session provides an in-depth look at EMC Documentum Retention Policy Services (RPS), our industry-leading solution for records retention management. An overview of how RPS functionality can be extended to meet customer needs will be presented. A sample customization using the RPS Public API will be provided and explained. Experience with Java programming is recommended to better understand the customization example.

Standards for Content Management and Web Services

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

The IT environments of the typical enterprise today include multiple content management systems, running on a number of different platforms, offering a variety of proprietary programming interfaces that are implemented in several different programming languages. And while consolidating all content into a single ECM system is generally not possible, content rich applications must ubiquitously access information across the existing silos. The integration approaches of today, where solutions are created that individually program against each of the proprietary APIs, simply cannot scale and the ECM industry is answering that call through the development of standardized programming interfaces to ECM systems. In this session we will provide an update on the industry wide initiative to produce a Web Services based standard for ECM. We will study the issues that have been addressed by the standardization body and how it is shaping the standard, discuss existing relevant standards such as JCR (JSR-170), review the delivery timeline for the standard and cover how this work is influencing the Web Services development in the Documentum system.

Planning your Documentum 6 Deployment

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session prepares you for a streamlined, easy EMC Documentum 6 deployment. Learn tips for successful deployments and exciting new features and platforms. Find out about EMC policies for versioning products and supporting underlying platforms-such as OS, RDBMS, and AS-and browsers to allow you to plan for Documentum 6.

WDK/Webtop Best UI Practices & D6 Roadmap

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

In this session, members of the User Experience Group will discuss the technical aspects of customizing the front end, the best place for locating custom functionality and the best UI Design approach for you to take. In addition, the latter portion of the session will cover planned changes from the current product to the D6 release and describe techniques to facilitate migration.

Architecture Track: Information Security

Duration: 1 hour.

Todays $20 billion security market highlights the growing security problems challenging the enterprise. This session will illustrate how you can mitigate risk, secure your assets and secure your information both inside and outside the repository. The topic will include discussion on Digital Rights Management, Content Encryption and the Common Security Platform.

EMC Infoscape: ILM Platform SDK

Category: Information Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

The ILM platform SDK EMC Infoscape is a new EMC software product that automates the implementation and ongoing operation of an information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy for a more intelligent way to manage files, through a series of extensible steps. This session will speak to the many challenges of ILM - the discovery of information and the acquisition of metadata; classification of information based on content and/or metadata, and automatic migration based on business and IT objectives. In this session you can learn about the product and future plans for extensibility by providing an SDK for plug-ins. Part of this session will be interactive where attendees can help define the requirements.

Planning your Documentum 6 Deployment

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session prepares you for a streamlined, easy EMC Documentum 6 deployment. Learn tips for successful deployments and exciting new features and platforms. Find out about EMC policies for versioning products and supporting underlying platforms-such as OS, RDBMS, and AS-and browsers to allow you to plan for Documentum 6.

Dinner

Night On The Town

Breakfast

BPM & Forms Builder

Category: Business Process Management.

Duration: 3 1/2 hours.

TThis session introduces you to the features of Business Process Manager (BPM), Business Process Services (BPS) and Forms Builder. During the course, you will use common features of BPM and BPS. You will use Forms Builder to design a form and configure adaptors. You will also learn how to create custom form adaptors.

SOA & Web Services: Architecture and Roadmap

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

SOA is becoming an integral part of every companies IT strategy. In this session, you’ll discover our approach to SOA and Web Services and how you can take advantage of them in your SOA implementation. We will cover our SOA architecture, discuss which standards we follow and adopt, and hare our D6 services offering. This session will include an interactive Q&A

Building Applications using WDK

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 3 1/2 hours.

Learn how to extend the WDK framework including advanced component architecture and beyond. This hands-on session allows you to investigate common customer requirements and then customize WDK components, actions, controls and other parts of the framework to solve them.

EMC Documentum Records Manager – Overview and Live Demonstration

Category: Compliance.

Duration: 2 hours.

EMC Documentum Records Manager makes it easy to control the entire lifecycle of corporate records – the creation, safeguarding, management, and destruction of records – according to a broad range of system-enforced policies. This session provides an in-depth look at the new, unified product capabilities using a live demonstration.

Architecture Track: Archiving and Storage

Duration: 1 hour.

The storage and archiving of mountain of critical information across the enterprise is causing a growing headache for companies as they try to rein in storage costs, and maintain compliance. This architect session will illustrate how to effectively utilize the EMC infrastructure for archiving content assets and leveraging appropriate storage infrastructure for an organizations legal requirements.

Microsoft Integration Roadmap

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session focuses on the roadmap for Microsoft Integration with the EMC Documentum Platform. It will include a focused discussion on plans for Sharepoint and Office 2007 with information on how Web Services and .NET are used. Available product features & functionality will be showcased in addition to planned customization options available to you.

Authentica IRM SDK Overview

Category: Security.

Duration: 1 hour.

The Documentum Information Rights Management (IRM) technologies include an SDK which can be used to add IRM capabilities to your own customer applications and information workflows. Through this SDK you can apply IRM protection (encryption and persistent control) to various forms of unstructured content, manipulate policy as security requirements change, audit all access and expire or shred all copies of content wherever they reside. This presentation will start with a high-level overview of the Documentum IRM technology and architecture. It will then dive into the SDK itself to discuss the key methods, including the use of sample code fragments.

SOA & Web Services: Architecture and Roadmap

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

SOA is becoming an integral part of every companies IT strategy. In this session, you’ll discover our approach to SOA and Web Services and how you can take advantage of them in your SOA implementation. We will cover our SOA architecture, discuss which standards we follow and adopt, and hare our D6 services offering. This session will include an interactive Q&A

Architecture Track: Archiving and Storage

Duration: 1 hour.

The storage and archiving of mountain of critical information across the enterprise is causing a growing headache for companies as they try to rein in storage costs, and maintain compliance. This architect session will illustrate how to effectively utilize the EMC infrastructure for archiving content assets and leveraging appropriate storage infrastructure for an organizations legal requirements.

Architecture Track: Networker Backup & Restore

Duration: 1 hour.

This session will present an overview of working with future APIs for EMC's enterprise Backup & Recovery product, EMC NetWorker. Administration and operational control of NetWorker is targeted for NetWorker VARs. NetWorker XBSA is targeted for application developers who want to have NetWorker protect their application's data.

Integrating Desktop Applications with Documentum using the Application Connector SDK

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

Do your users need access to powerful enterprise content management services from within their favorite desktop applications?  If so, attend this presentation to learn how you can more efficiently build application integrations using a consistent, supported integration framework.  The Application Connector SDK provides a complete set of APIs, DLLs, a Developer's Guide, and sample integrations to get you on your way.  We will look at the Application Connector architecture and discuss how it allows you to leverage Webtop/WDK components from within your target desktop application.

Implementing Web Services/SOA on the Documentum Platform

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session is for Architects and technical managers/project managers and focuses on how to implement a SOA environment for your ILM environment. Topics include SOA benefits, SLA’s, SOA Governance, web services, security, best practices, ROIs, use cases and models, UDDIs, ESBs, architecture examples and actual deployment examples! This session focuses on the Documentum platform.

WDK and DFC Search Customizations

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session for developers introduces some common themes in customizations to WDK and DFC search APIs. Topics include how to constrain the search UI in Webtop, how to modify queries after they are submitted, how to execute a query from a DFC-based Web application, and how to execute search queries more effectively. Working code for solutions will be provided for you to modify for your applications.

Microsoft Integration Roadmap

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session focuses on the roadmap for Microsoft Integration with the EMC Documentum Platform. It will include a focused discussion on plans for Sharepoint and Office 2007 with information on how Web Services and .NET are used. Available product features & functionality will be showcased in addition to planned customization options available to you.

Java DMCL

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session wil discuss details about the new Java DMCL, how it fits into DFC and what this means for developers.

Lunch

Integrating EMC Documentum Content to SAP through SOA and NetWeaver

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

We'll discuss the way how Documentum will enable you to create service-based applications integrating Content and SAP Business Objects. Learn how to use Documentum NetWeaver Portal iViews or an upcoming set of Business Services from EMC Documentum Content Services for SAP to build vertical or custom applications. Include functionality for linking and retrieval of contextual content in an ERP environment in SAP NetWeaver Portal, in EMC Documentum Business Process Manager (BPM) or as custom code. Learn how to create links between SAP and Documentum objects so that the content is accessible from SAP. See how to find the SAP Business Object data linked to a Documentum object, based on the configuration of Content Services for SAP. We also cover central integration questions like Single-Sign-on (SSO), handling of transactions and data mapping.

Java DMCL

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session wil discuss details about the new Java DMCL, how it fits into DFC and what this means for developers.

DCM Architecture and Customization Model

Category: Compliance.

Duration: 1 hour.

Highly regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and food industries need secure, convenient and powerful tools to facilitate the creation of controlled documents and their transition through a document lifecycle. Documentum Compliance Manager (DCM) is the tool that meets these customer’s needs. This technical presentation will include the following topics:
Introduction to the DCM 5.3 architecture
Technical overview of typical customizations in DCM
Details of the integration for signature generation and controlled viewing/printing through PDF Aqua.

Migrating to Documentum 6 WDK

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

In this presentation we will see how Documentum 6 WDK provides a safe migration path, especially for those customers with customized applications. Come learn about what's new in WDK and how your applications can adopt all of the new features and functionality in a safe, managed, well informed migration. We will discuss new features in detail, including default settings and how to migrate using XML configuration switches, JSP changes, and Java customizations.

Architecture Track: Collaboration

Duration: 2 hours.

Learn to incorporate functionality around collaborative processes into applications based on EMC infrastructure. Understand considerations in application design and development based on the architectural direction and product roadmap. There will be deep focus on the coming model for collaboration development, a custom solutions overview, architecture and feature set and building collaborative applications that will migrate.

Migrating to Documentum 6 WDK

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

In this presentation we will see how Documentum 6 WDK provides a safe migration path, especially for those customers with customized applications. Come learn about what's new in WDK and how your applications can adopt all of the new features and functionality in a safe, managed, well informed migration. We will discuss new features in detail, including default settings and how to migrate using XML configuration switches, JSP changes, and Java customizations.

Is Your Application Scalable? Using LoadRunner to Simulate Real-World Loads Before Deployment - Part 1

Category: Content Management / Performance.

Duration: 1 hour.

Is your hardware enough to support your needs? Have you configured your application properly to handle the load you expect? This presentation will give you the information you need to build custom load tests using Mercury Loadrunner to ensure you're ready for production. It will provide scripting tricks and tips, details on how to simulate content transfer in simple or complex environments, and debugging best practices. This is a must for any group planning to do scalability and reliability testing before deployment.
NOTE: There is a second part to this session immediately following the first.

Building Custom Report Management Applications, utilizing the Archive Services for Reports plug-in API

Category: Archiving.

Duration: 1 hour.

Archive Services for Reports offers an extensible, plug-in based architecture - enabling unique applications to be created by selecting plug-ins from a robust library. Further customization is available via an API for creating unique plug-ins. This session will introduce the basic components of creating plug-ins for Archive Services for Reports. A sample plug-in will be provided, which the instructor will reference to highlight each of the major steps in development. Experience with C++ Programming is required.

CTS Administration and Customization

Category: Rich Media / Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This presentation will provide an outline of the Client Transformation Services (CTS) administration features in Documentum Administrator. It will also include an overview of CTS transformation profiles and how to customize CTS by working with the profiles.

Linklaters: Implementing ECI Services

Category: Search.

Duration: 1 hour.

In this session, Linklaters will present best practices, development experiences and technical details of their ECI deployment. Topics discussed will include their secure search integration with a EMC Documentum custom client using BOF, web services and the FAST full text index. They will explain how they solved the challenge of maintaining security in search previews against a single global repository with distributed content, without sacrificing performance.

Additionally, Linklaters will discuss how they customized ECIS, the MSIndex adapter and the Discovery manager client to work in multi-language environments.

Exploring the Web Services Framework within BOF

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session covers the Documentum Platform and the resources available for building efficient web services. We’ll cover the Web Services Framework and walk thru the process of building web services from BOF development thru deployment. We’ll also share a bit on changes coming in the D6 release.

DCM Architecture and Customization Model

Category: Compliance.

Duration: 1 hour.

Highly regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and food industries need secure, convenient and powerful tools to facilitate the creation of controlled documents and their transition through a document lifecycle. Documentum Compliance Manager (DCM) is the tool that meets these customer’s needs. This technical presentation will include the following topics:
Introduction to the DCM 5.3 architecture
Technical overview of typical customizations in DCM
Details of the integration for signature generation and controlled viewing/printing through PDF Aqua.

Advanced DFC

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session is a small, highly interactive group discussion covering Advanced DFC Topics. Attendees will submit suggested topics in advance. Seminar leaders will select topics and navigate the group through each topic, developing solutions along the way.

Exploring the Web Services Framework within BOF

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session covers the Documentum Platform and the resources available for building efficient web services. We’ll cover the Web Services Framework and walk thru the process of building web services from BOF development thru deployment. We’ll also share a bit on changes coming in the D6 release.

Putting on the Bags: A Developer's Toolkit

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

This session will focus on Developer Tools for Documentum Applications. Developers will learn about various tools that can help them in building applications on the Documentum platform, and speed the development process.

Migrating to Documentum 6 WDK

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

In this presentation we will see how Documentum 6 WDK provides a safe migration path, especially for those customers with customized applications. Come learn about what's new in WDK and how your applications can adopt all of the new features and functionality in a safe, managed, well informed migration. We will discuss new features in detail, including default settings and how to migrate using XML configuration switches, JSP changes, and Java customizations.

Protecting Sensitive Information Across the Enterprise

Category: Security/Content Management.

Duration: 1 hour.

Information Leakage is a growing problem that can now be prevented. This session, presented by Code Green Networks, will cover the problems facing the industry today, and how companies and government organizations can mitigate the growing threat of having sensitive information leaked from the inside using digital technology. It will discuss how Content Protection adds a safety net for protecting against information leakage by trusted insiders. Additional topics covered will include the Deep Content Fingerprinting algorithm, and best practices in implementing the Content Connector for Documentum.

Is Your Application Scalable? Using LoadRunner to Simulate Real-World Loads Before Deployment - Part 2

Category: Content Management / Performance.

Duration: 1 hour.

Is your hardware enough to support your needs? Have you configured your application properly to handle the load you expect? This presentation will give you the information you need to build custom load tests using Mercury Loadrunner to ensure you're ready for production. It will provide scripting tricks and tips, details on how to simulate content transfer in simple or complex environments, and debugging best practices. This is a must for any group planning to do scalability and reliability testing before deployment.
NOTE:Part 1 of this session is requirement for the second part.

Ask the Product Manager

Here's your chance to grill the people who set EMC product direction in a relaxed environment. This is always one of our most popular sessions so don't miss it!

Dinner, Entertainment and Video

Breakfast

Grokking The Paradigm

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

Very often WDK development involves a vertical approach to application development based on the folder hierarchy. This session takes a horizontal cut at application development using WDK - tracing the lifecycle of a simple application transaction from the client, to the server, to the database and back again. It discusses the different technologies that come into play including JSP, JavaScript, Java, DQL, XML configurations and more, illustrating where to find the different components and scripts on the server, and how to learn more about them.

Advanced DFC

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session is a small, highly interactive group discussion covering Advanced DFC Topics. Attendees will submit suggested topics in advance. Seminar leaders will select topics and navigate the group through each topic, developing solutions along the way.

Advanced WDK

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session will cover advanced Advanced WDK development topics. In addition, this session demonstrates a new, automated test framework for WDK-based applications. Attend this session and see a preview of how you will be able to record, launch, monitor, and validate automated test cases to improve the quality of your WDK-based applications and also significantly reduce testing cost when upgrading to new EMC-Documentum releases.

Advanced XML

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session is a small, highly interactive group discussion covering Advanced XML Topics. Attendees will submit suggested topics in advance. Seminar leaders will select topics and navigate the group through each topic, developing solutions along the way.

Developing Applications with DFC/BOF/Web Services

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 3 1/2 hours.

This technical session consists of lecture, hands-on labs and discussion. You should have DFC programming experience in order to get the most out of this session. Topics will include generating web services from SBOs using the Web Services Framework, business object packaging and deployment using Documentum Application Builder and more.

Developing Interactive Adobe Forms for EMC Documentum

Duration: 1 hour.

Come learn about how you can extend the reach of Documentum with Adobe's interactive, intelligent forms solution. Adobe LiveCycle Forms allows you to capture data from customers, employees, or partners and then leverage that information throughout your Documentum environment. Melvin Chua, Adobe's Field Alliance Manager for EMC, will be on hand to demonstrate and answer your questions about the integrated solution. Be prepared to be amazed as to how easy it is to build an interactive form from scratch and integrate it into a Documentum environment. This session will be focused on the technology that enables the development of interactive, intelligent forms.

Advanced DFC

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session is a small, highly interactive group discussion covering Advanced DFC Topics. Attendees will submit suggested topics in advance. Seminar leaders will select topics and navigate the group through each topic, developing solutions along the way.

Advanced WDK

Category: Content Management.

Duration: 2 hours.

This session will cover advanced Advanced WDK development topics. In addition, this session demonstrates a new, automated test framework for WDK-based applications. Attend this session and see a preview of how you will be able to record, launch, monitor, and validate automated test cases to improve the quality of your WDK-based applications and also significantly reduce testing cost when upgrading to new EMC-Documentum releases.

Is Your Application Scalable? Using LoadRunner to Simulate Real-World Loads Before Deployment - Parts 1 & 2 Combined

Category: Content Management / Performance.

Duration: 2 hours.

Is your hardware enough to support your needs? Have you configured your application properly to handle the load you expect? This presentation will give you the information you need to build custom load tests using Mercury Loadrunner to ensure you're ready for production. It will provide scripting tricks and tips, details on how to simulate content transfer in simple or complex environments, and debugging best practices. This is a must for any group planning to do scalability and reliability testing before deployment.

Lunch