Accelera

[EMC/Documentum] The first Documentum web client, circa 1995-1996. Accelera was a simple CGI program that enabled read-only access of a docbase. Although it was simple, quick, and efficient, it lacked the full capabilities of its client/server counterpart WorkSpace. Documentum replaced Accelera with RightSite.

Acrobat Reader

[Adobe Systems] Part of the Adobe Acrobat suite, Acrobat Reader is a free, cross-platform PDF viewer. With version 7, Adobe introduced the ability for Reader users to add commentary and annotations to specially constructed PDF documents.

Adobe Acrobat

[Adobe Systems] A family of software products produced by Adobe. The Adobe Acrobat suite enables a user to create, modify, annotate, and view PDF documents.

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems (often referred to as just "Adobe") is a computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. They founded Adobe after leaving Xerox PARC in order to further develop and commercialize the PostScript page description language. Adobe played a significant role in sparking the desktop publishing revolution when Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in the LaserWriter printer product line in 1985. The company name Adobe comes from the Adobe Creek, which ran near the company's original offices in Mountain View.

Adobe is a dominant vendor in the desktop publishing arena, and their PDF format is the preferred output format for many document management systems. (Partial source: Wikipedia entry for "Adobe Systems")

Advanced Document Transformation Services

[EMC/Documentum] An add-on service for Documentum's Document Transformation Services that provides additional features, such as document thumbnail creation and hyperlink support.

Application Builder

[EMC/Documentum] Up until Documentum 5, known as Developer Studio. Application Builder is a set of tools that enables software developers to customize Documentum by manipulating lifecycles, object types, permission sets, aliases, and the data dictionary. Application Builder also enables the creation, installation, and management of docapps.

ApplicationXtender

[EMC/Documentum] From Documentum's data sheet: "Electronically stores, organizes, and manages documents, files, and other business-critical information, and provides fast, security-controlled access to information from either Windows or Web-based clients. ApplicationXtender 5 (AX5) integrates document imaging, COLD/report management, workflow, and document management services - within an easy-to-use Windows/.NET-optimized system."

Unlike most products under the Documentum banner, Application Xtender is not built upon the core Documentum (Content Server) architecture. It appears to be a completely separate application suite originally developed (or acquired) by EMC and rolled into the Documentum brand.

Ascent Capture

[Kofax] An image capture application suite that enables the scanning of paper documents and the conversion of the scanned images into information that can then be stored as data in a repository. Ascent Capture is scalable and integrates well with content management and document management systems.

Attribute

The Documentum term for metadata associated with an object or document. In recent releases this has been supplanted with the term property.

Audio Video Transformation Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum add-on service that provides various multimedia transformations such as creating thumbnails of video files.

Authoring Integration Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum add-on service that provides a set of standards-based services for integration between the Documentum repository and the authoring tools people use to create and edit content. Authoring Integration Services supports protocols such as FTP and WebDAV.

Business Objects Framework

[EMC/Documentum] A layer on top of the Documentum API that provides an additional level of object abstraction; the goal of the Business Objects Framework is to reduce development time and complexity by providing a higher-level object model than that provided by the API.

Business Process Manager

[EMC/Documentum] A graphical front end to Documentum that enables the design of business processes.

Business Process Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum add-on service that enables back-end integration with Documentum and other systems, with a focus on integrating workflow, document lifecycle, and other event-driven features.

Checkin

The process of uploading a new version of a document or object to a repository, usually accompanied by releasing the lock that the checkout owner had on the document.

Checkout

The process of downloading a document or object from a repository and placing a lock on the object. The lock prevents other users from checking out or otherwise modifying the document. The checkin/checkout metaphor is dominant in current document management systems, but other approaches (such as branch merging) do exist.

Content Distribution Services

[EMC/Documentum] An add-on service to Documentum Server that enables content distribution via several common protocols such as FTP, SMTP, or file sharing.

Content Intelligence Services

[EMC/Documentum] An add-on service to Documentum Server that can extract information from content files and use that information to enable business intelligence analysis.

Content Management Portlets

[EMC/Documentum] Based on the Web Development Kit (WDK) for Portlets, this set of portlets provides web-based interfaces to the Documentum Content Server.

Content Server

[EMC/Documentum] The heart of the Documentum document management platform. The Content Server is a set of software that resides on a server and interacts with a relational database (such as Oracle or SQL Server) to provide a document repository. The Content Server provides the back end processing; to access the repository, you need front-end software such as Desktop Client or WebTop. Documentum provides several add-on products that usually run on additional server machines. Any software that uses the WDK, DFC, or Documentum API is eventually communicating with the Content Server software. At various times, Content Server has been referred to as eContent Server or just Server.

Content Storage Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum add-on service that enables system administrators to set up automatic content archiving rules.

CoreDossier

[Liquent] A software package that enables the publishing of regulatory documents. At its heart, CoreDossier is a tool that takes documents from a repository such as Documentum, converts them to PDF, assembles them into a single cohesive document, and then applies pagination, headers, footers, etc., to provide a consistent appearance throughout the combined document. Liquent briefly provided a lightweight version of CoreDossier called kPublisher.

Desktop

[EMC/Documentum] The current term (Documentum 5.3) for Desktop Client.

Desktop Client

[EMC/Documentum] A client/server front end for the Documentum Server. Introduced with Documentum 4i, Desktop Client replaced WorkSpace and was implemented as a Microsoft Windows Explorer integration. Documentum 5 includes support for Desktop Client, but it appears that its days are numbered as a supported product.

Desktop Development Kit

[EMC/Documentum] A toolkit that enables software developers to customize the Windows version of Documentum Desktop Client.

Desktop for Macintosh

[EMC/Documentum] A Macintosh port of Documentum's Desktop Client. Desktop for Macintosh runs on both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.

Developer Studio

[EMC/Documentum] The pre-Documentum 5 name for Application Builder.

DFC

[EMC/Documentum] Acronym for Documentum Foundation Classes.

Digital Asset Manager

[EMC/Documentum] A web-based Documentum front end for managing multimedia assets.

Discovery Manager

[EMC/Documentum] A web-based front-end to ECI Services, enabling queries across heterogeneous content sources.

Docbase

[EMC/Documentum] Documentum's trademarked term for a Documentum repository. As of Documentum 5.3, they've dropped this term in favor of "repository."

Docbroker

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum service that provides docbase name resolution to Documentum clients. Each docbase registers itself with a docbroker at startup, enabling clients to resolve to the docbase without necessarily knowing the docbase's exact location on the network.

Document Transformation Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum services that provides PDF or HTML renditions of repository content files. Called Content Rendition Services prior to Documentum 5.3 and called AutoRender prior to Documentum 5.

Documentum

1. A popular suite of document management software tools, including Documentum Server, Documentum WebTop, and many other components.

2. The name of the company that developed the Documentum software. Documentum, Inc., was acquired by EMC in 2003.

Documentum Administrator

[EMC/Documentum] A web-based utility for managing Documentum servers. The original Documentum Administrator was released as part of Documentum 4i and was built upon the RightSite engine. A revised Documentum Administrator was released as part of Documentum 5 and was built using the WDK.

Documentum API

[EMC/Documentum] A common application programming interface (API) that applications can call to leverage any of the content services provided by the Documentum platform. The Documentum API allows developers to write any type of content-rich application, including Web applications, portal applications, or custom user interfaces for the desktop.

Documentum Client for Outlook

[EMC/Documentum] An Outlook integration that enables the user to view Documentum content through Outlook.

Documentum Collaborative Edition

[EMC/Documentum] Abbreviated as DCE. A set of Documentum add-ons that adds collaborative work features to the base Documentum Content Server platform. DCE leverages some of the ideas implicit in eRooms (such as discussion threads and work areas set aside for groups of users) and provides a WebTop-based interface to the collaboration tools. DCE features are also exposed via the WDK, so customizations can be built on top of the core DCE concepts.

Documentum Compliance Manager

[EMC/Documentum] Often abbreviated as DCM. A Documentum add-on that enables organizations with strict document control requirements to better manage controlled documents. DCM is an extension to WebTop that provides additional features around electronic signatures, electronic audit trails, and the printing of controlled documents.

Documentum Foundation Classes

[EMC/Documentum] A set of Java libraries that implement the Documentum API plus additional, higher-level object abstractions and processing.

DQL

[EMC/Documentum] Documentum Query Language, a SQL-like query language used to query or modify information stored in a docbase.

ECI Adapters

[EMC/Documentum] See ECI Services; an ECI Adapter is a piece of software that enables a content source to conform to the ECI standard and respond to ECI queries.

ECI Services

[EMC/Documentum] Server-based software that enables the integration of differing content sources, enabling end users to access content with a single query regardless of content location or how content is accessed. Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services is designed to manage the integration of content through adapters and a query broker that federates each end user request. ECI methods are exposed through Documentum's WDK, which enables WDK-based applications to issue queries against different types of content repositories.

ECI Services Portlet

[EMC/Documentum] A portlet integration that enables Documentum users to access and search repositories exposed via ECI Services.

eCTD

Acronym for Electronic Common Technical Document.

EDMS

Commonly used acronym for Electronic Document Management System. Documentum also adopted this as the overall name for their Documentum 3 architecture, calling it EDMS 98. That name was abandoned with the release of Documentum 4i.

Ektron eWebEditPro

[EMC/Documentum] A WYSIWYG Web content editor that enables business users with the ability to easily author and maintain Web content stored in a Documentum repository.

Electronic Common Technical Document

The electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD) is the electronic equivalent of the Common Technical Document (CTD), which is a standard format for submissions to the authorities and agencies responsible for regulation of pharmaceutical products in the USA, Europe and Japan.

Electronic Document Management System

An Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) is a computer based system used for managing electronic and paper-based documents. An EDMS generally offers a means of checking documents into the system, searching for documents in the system, and version control. Many systems also provide work-flow and collaboration capabilities. (Source: Wikipedia entry for "electronic document management system.")

EMC

A manufacturer of high-end storage hardware and software headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. EMC produces a range of enterprise storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management software.

In 2002, EMC acquired Prisa Networks for its storage area network (SAN) management VisualSAN product. In 2003, EMC announced that it purchased Documentum and Legato Corporation and VMware. Continuing its acquisitive streak, EMC announced the purchase of network management software company System Management Arts, Inc., also known as SMARTS. Recently, EMC has been doing a lot of work in the area of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).

EMC developed the first Content Addressed Storage system, called Centera. This radical platform continued to address the specific needs of ILM in a rapidly changing technical environment. (Source: Wikipedia entry for "EMC Corporation")

ERMXtender

[EMC/Documentum] Part of the Application Xtender suite, ERMXtender is a report management package that helps preserve the output format of reports from many different sources.

eRoom

[EMC/Documentum] eRoom is a software package that enables collaboration within a workgroup. Originally a standalone product, eRoom was acquired by Documentum in 2002.

eRoom Enterprise

[EMC/Documentum] The combination of an eRoom front-end on a Documentum repository. eRoom Enterprise is implemented as a web-based client, and can be used in place of or alongside of the other Documentum clients such as WebTop and Desktop Client.

eRoom.net

[EMC/Documentum] eRoom.net is a hosted version of eRoom for small and medium businesses that don't have the infrastructure support to set up their own eRoom servers.

EZSubs

[Liquent] A software package that integrates with Documentum to enable publishing of regulatory submissions. EZSubs has both client and server components; its user interface consists of customizations to Documentum's Desktop Client. Liquent acquired EZSubs (as well as the rest of CDC) in 2002.

FileNet

FileNet is the name of a California corporation founded in 1982; it is also the name of their principle product, the current version of which is referred to as FileNet P8. FileNet is a document management platform that originated as an imaging application. In 1995 FileNet acquired Watermark, another imaging systems vendor, and integrated their technology into the FileNet product.

IAPI

[EMC/Documentum] A command-line utility that enables the user to issue Documentum API calls directly to a Documentum Content Server. IAPI functionality is also built into Documentum Administrator and is a hidden feature of most Documentum clients such as WorkSpace and Desktop Client.

IAPI32

[EMC/Documentum] The Windows version of IAPI.

IDQL

[EMC/Documentum] A command line interface to the Documentum Server that enables the user to enter DQL commands.

IDQL32

[EMC/Documentum] The Windows version of IDQL.

Imaging

A general term for the art of scanning documents and importing them into an electronic document management system. The use of the term imaging often implies a large-scale scanning operation.

InputAccel

[Captiva] An image capture application suite that enables the scanning of paper documents and the conversion of the scanned images into information that can then be stored as data in a repository.

JDBC Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum software add-on that enables direct access to a Documentum Content Server or Site Caching Services repository from any J2EE-compliant application, portal, or personalization server.

Kofax

A vendor of image capture, device connectivity and image processing software. Founded in 1985, Kofax is best known for its Ascent Capture product. In 2000 Kofax was acquired by DICOM Group plc.

Legato NetWorker Module for Documentum

[EMC/Documentum] A software module for the Legato NetWorker backup software that enables hot backups of Documentum.

Liquent

A company with global headquarters in Horsham, Pennsylvania . Liquent was founded in 1994 as ESPS, Inc., and established itself as the developer of CoreDossier, a document publishing solution aimed at the regulatory submissions market. The company went public in 1999 but suffered a series of challenges that led to its eventual acquisition by IHI in 2002. IHI then acquired IDRAC and CDC, merging them in under the Liquent name. IHI was in turn acquired by Thomson in 2004. Since changing their name to Liquent in 1999, the company has attempted to position itself as a regulatory submissions software vendor and services provider.

LiveLink Enterprise Server

[Open Text Corporation] Commonly referred to as simply "LiveLink." A document management software suite published by Open Text Corporation. Originally developed by Odesta, Open Text acquired LiveLink in 1995 and integrated it with their existing search software. At the same time, Open Text revamped LiveLink and made the user interface entirely web-based.

Media Transformation Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum add-on that enables the conversion and transformation of various multimedia file types.

Medical Imaging Transformation Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum add-on that adds support for the DICOM image format used in medical records such as ultrasound images, MRIs, and CT scans.

Metadata

Metadata is, literally, "data about data." In the document management world, the term metadata usually describes information about a document that is not contained in the document itself. Some metadata (such as size, file format, or language) is implicit in the construction of the document, while other metadata is assigned by one or more creators.

ODBC Reporting Services

[EMC/Documentum] Documentum software add-on that provides a connection between the Documentum repository and applications that support open database connectivity via ODBC.

Open Text Corporation

Open Text Corporation is a Canadian high-tech company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It produces and distributes computer software applications designed to enable content management solutions for large corporate systems. Its flagship product, Livelink, is a Web-based content management system, with integrated business process management capabilities.

Open Text originated from the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo, a project led by computer scientist Gaston Gonnet. From 1984 to 1989, this project sought to create an electronic OED. One of the chief necessities for such a massive undertaking was the development of effective search technologies which could be used to quickly index and retrieve information. The search technology that was developed for this project was recognized as being useful for many electronic applications, and was the basis for the founding of Open Text Corporation in 1991.

With the advent of the information age, and the growing importance of the Internet, the company grew as organizations discovered the need to be able to index and search their existing and growing stores of information. For a brief period in 1995, Open Text provided the search technology used by Yahoo! as part of its Web index.

In 1995, Open Text purchased Odesta, producer of Livelink, an electronic document management system. This system was converted to a Web-based system. Livelink was marketed as a corporate intranet solution for "collaborative knowledge management". Livelink was the basis for Open Text's second phase of growth. The system was integrated with Open Text's search technology, as well as a business process management solution. Much of Open Text's growth during this second phase was gained through the acquisition of smaller companies and integration of their technologies with Livelink. (Source: Wikipedia entry for "Open Text Corporation")

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, involves computer systems designed to translate images of typewritten or printed text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text; to translate pictures of characters into a standard encoding scheme representing them (ASCII or Unicode). (Partial source: Wikipedia entry for "optical character recognition.")

PDF

[Adobe Systems] Commonly used acronym for Portable Document Format. Also used as a noun when describing a file in this format; e.g., "e-mail me a PDF of the file."

PDF Annotation Services

[EMC/Documentum] A client-side customization to either WebTop or Desktop Client that integrates the review and commenting capabilities of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) into Documentum's enterprise content management (ECM) platform. In older Documentum releases (versions 2 and 3) this feature was provided with Documentum WorkSpace for free; in current versions this is an additional feature that must be purchased.

PDFAqua

[Liquent] A Documentum add-on that enables the automatic placement of document attribute information into a document template. PDFAqua was originally developed by CDC Solutions.

Portable Document Format

[Adobe Systems] Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. A PDF file can describe documents containing any combination of text, graphics, and images in a device independent and resolution independent format. These documents can be one page or thousands of pages, very simple or extremely complex with a rich use of fonts, graphics, color, and images. PDF is an open standard, and anyone may write applications that can read or write PDFs royalty-free.

Free readers for many platforms are available for download from the Adobe website, and there are several free open source readers, including Xpdf for POSIX-like systems with the X Window System; GPdf, a derivative of Xpdf for GNOME; GSPdf and ViewPDF, for GNUstep; and front-ends for many platforms to Ghostscript.

In document management, PDF is the preferred format for completed output because it is generally hard to alter, it preserves the appearance of the original document, and it is widely accessible because of the widespread availability of the free Acrobat Reader.

In document management terminology, the process of converting a document or series of documents to PDF is often referred to as publishing. Products such as CoreDossier and EZSubs can be considered publishing utilities.

(Partial source: Wikipedia entry for "Portable Document Format.")

Portlet

Portlets are reusable Web components that display relevant information to portal users. Examples for portlets are:

• Email
• Weather
• Discussion forum
• News

Portlet standards enable developers to create portlets that can be plugged in any portal supporting the standards.

The purpose of the interface "Web Services for Remote Portlets" is to provide a web services standard that allows for the "plug-n-play" of portals, other intermediary web applications that aggregate content, and applications from disparate sources.

The portlet specification enables interoperability between portlets and portals. This specification defines a set of APIs for portal computing addressing the areas of aggregation, personalization, presentation and security. (Source: Wikipedia entry for "portlets")

Property

A synonym for metadata. The term property is more commonly used in Windows to describe file metadata, but has been adopted by many document management systems.

Repository

A repository is a central place where data is stored and maintained. In document management, this refers to a collection of electronic information composed primarily of electronic documents and their metadata. The Documentum term for a repository prior to version 5.3 was docbase.

RightSite

[EMC/Documentum] A web-based front end for the Documentum Server. Introduced in 1996 with Documentum 3, RightSite included several different "applications", including ViewSpace, SmartSpace Intranet, and SiteSpace.

Scanning

The act of creating a two-dimensional image of a document; also called imaging or document capture. In document management, scanning is how existing paper documents are converted into electronic versions suitable for storage in a document management repository. All scanners produce raster images - patterns of dots. Converting those dots into meaningful information (as the information conveyed by words on a page) requires an additional process called optical character recognition (OCR).

Site Caching Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum software add-on that automatically exports approved content and metadata from the Documentum Content Server to a cached repository for fast delivery of personalized web content.

Site Delivery Services

[EMC/Documentum] The combination of two Documentum add-on components, Site Caching Services and Site Deployment Services.

Site Deployment Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum software add-on that retrieves content and metadata from a cached repository and deploys it to web server farms in a quick, efficient, and transactional manner.

SiteSpace

[EMC/Documentum] One of the user applications of RightSite. SiteSpace enabled users to have a read-only view of the docbase, but it differed from ViewSpace in that SiteSpace users were anonymous and did not have to have named user accounts within the Documentum docbase.

SmartSpace Client/Server

[EMC/Documentum] A client/server front end for the Documentum Server. Introduced along with Documentum 3, SmartSpace C/S was intended to be a lightweight version of WorkSpace and functionally equivalent to SmartSpace Intranet. Although the SmartSpace C/S and SmartSpace Intranet products were priced similarly, they were completely different in implementation and the naming caused confusion. SmartSpace C/S was discontinued along with WorkSpace by the time Documentum 4i shipped.

SmartSpace Intranet

[EMC/Documentum] One of the user applications of RightSite. SmartSpace enabled users to perform authoring and review in a docbase, but suffered from stability and robustness problems typical of RightSite applications.

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

A raster file format for digital images, created by Aldus for use with PostScript printing and now controlled by Adobe. TIFF has become the de facto standard graphics format for high color depth (32-bit) graphics, is widely used in image manipulation applications such as Photoshop, DTP, and scanning, and can be directly manipulated by PostScript. In document management TIFF is favored as the initial file format for scanning and image capture applications; however, because TIFF files tend to be rather large, it is often converted through an OCR process to something smaller and more searchable such as PDF. (Partial source: Wikipedia entry for "Tagged Image File Format")

Telestream FlipFactory

[Telestream, EMC/Documentum] Enables content creators to automatically convert digital assets to leading audio and video formats, easily repurposing audio/video content for the Web. Telestream FlipFactory uses transcoding automation technology that's integrated into Documentum Media Services as the Advanced Audio/Video Media Plug-in.

Thunderhead Dynamic Content Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum utility that enables the dynamic generation of content based on data stored in the repository or database. Documentum appears to be positioning Thunderhead as a lightweight publishing solution along the lines of PDFAqua or EZSubs.

TIFF

Acronym for Tagged Image File Format.

Trusted Content Services

[EMC/Documentum] A Documentum software add-on that enables security features such as encrypted repository files, "digital shredding" (a mechanism for ensuring that deleted content can't be retrieved from disk), and electronic signature support.

Version

A checkpoint at which a document varies from its previous condition. Most document management systems maintain multiple versions of a document and enforce security controls to prevent the accidental deletion of previous versions. The word version can also be used as a verb to indicate the creation of a new version, e.g., "He versioned the document and then sent it out for review." (Partial source: Wikipedia entry for "version")

ViewSpace

[EMC/Documentum] One of the user applications of RightSite. ViewSpace enabled users to have a read-only view of the docbase.

Virtual document

[EMC/Documentum] In Documentum, a collection of documents maintained as part of a tree structure.

Virtual document manager

[EMC/Documentum] A component of one of the Documentum clients (WorkSpace, Desktop Client, WebTop) that enables the user to manipulate virtual documents.

WDK

[EMC/Documentum] Acronym for Documentum's Web Development Kit.

Web Development Kit

[EMC/Documentum] The Web Development Kit (WDK) is a developer's toolkit, built in Java on top of the DFC, containing a library of over 170 reusable, pre-built components and controls that perform common Documentum content management functions. WebTop and Documentum Administrator are two applications built using the WDK.

Web Development Kit for Portlets

[EMC/Documentum] Part of Application Builder, the WDK for Portlets enables the development of portlets built on top of the WDK architecture.

Web Publisher

[EMC/Documentum] A browser-based interface to the Documentum repository that is intended to enable non-technical users to create, manage, and publish content for multiple web sites.

Web Publisher Portlets

[EMC/Documentum] A portal implementation of the Web Publisher functionality.

WebDAV Services

[EMC/Documentum] Allows users of applications such as Adobe Photoshop to access content and services provided by Documentum without additional system integration. WebDAV Services is included with the Documentum Server.

Webtop

[EMC/Documentum] A web-based front end for the Documentum Server. Webtop is built on top of the WDK and was introduced with Documentum 5.

WebXtender

[EMC/Documentum] A lightweight web-based front end for Application Xtender.

Workflow

Workflow is the embodiment of a work process; implementing a workflow in a document management solution involves setting up a series of distinct steps that must be executed in a particular order. Some workflow rules can be very complex, and the development and management of good workflows is a complete field of endeavor unto itself.

WorkflowXtender

[EMC/Documentum] An Application Xtender front-end intended to facilitate the design and use of workflows.

WorkSpace

[EMC/Documentum] A client/server front end for the Documentum Server. WorkSpace was in wide use from 1994 to 1999 (Documentum versions 2 and 3), at which point Documentum ended WorkSpace support and supplanted it with Documentum Desktop Client. Despite the lack of official support, WorkSpace has remained widely used by developers.

XML

The eXtensible Markup Language. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages. It is a simplified subset of SGML, capable of describing many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet. Languages based on XML (for example, RDF, RSS, MathML, XHTML and SVG) are themselves described in a formal way, allowing some programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form.