Called MediaSpace, the interface will allow content created using tools such as Adobe’s PhotoShop and stored in Documentum’s repository to be viewed and annotated as part of what EMC is describing as rich media content processing.
Mark Lewis, president of EMC’s content management and archiving division, said that the tool exploits the core Documentum content and digital asset management.
What we didn’t have was a powerful front-end for reviewing and editing functions, he said.
We’re not replacing applications like PhotoShop. But there are lots of content reviewers and processors who need to pull it up, review, annotate or approve material, Lewis said. Over the next couple of years this is going to be a high-growth market with full digitization not just of pictures but of video as well, Lewis said.
MediaSpace, which will also include a content search facility, will link to the TaskSpace workflow engine and interface that EMC launched for Documentum in May. EMC said it expects application developers and systems integrators to customize MediaSpace, which is slated to ship around the middle of next year.
This is the first time we’ve gone to this level with a user interface, Lewis said.
MediaSpace is part of what EMC says will be an effort to deliver more focused user-friendly front ends to Documentum.
