The rapid growth of Web-based initiatives means organizations need to manage large amounts of targeted data. Existing enterprise content management (ECM) systems can be integrated with IBM Lotus Web Content Management software to help align accurate information with the people who affect your business. This white paper explains how.
Web content management and enterprise content managementWhite paperJune 2008
IBM Lotus Web Content Management
software and existing enterprise
content management solutions:
patterns for integration.
Jon Brunn, software engineer, Lotus software, IBM Software Group
Jeff Neumann, offering manager, Lotus software, IBM Software Group
Steve Pritko, senior software engineer, Lotus software, IBM Software GroupIBM Lotus Web Content Management software and existing enterprise content management solutions: patterns for integration.Page
IntroductionContents The rapid growth of Web-based initiatives in organizations has accelerated the need to easily capture and manage large amounts of targeted content and 2 Introduction deliver that content to employees, customers and partners. For companies that 3 Integration scenarios for have an existing enterprise content management (ECM) system, integration with IBM FileNet and IBM Content a Web content management (WCM) solution can help provide mechanisms to Manager software align accurate, up-to-date information with the people who affect your business.17 Which scenario should you choose? A powerful and sophisticated WCM solution can:19 Why IBM? . Accelerate the development and delivery of critical business information across the enterprise.. Enable organizations to create, maintain and publish Web content to Internet, intranet, extranet and portal assets with comprehensive capabilities.. Deliver content to specific audiences via a high level of personalization and through a variety of channels.
®This paper explores patterns for integrating IBM Lotus Web Content ® TManagement (formerly known as IBM Workplace Web Content Management), ®IBM FileNet and IBM Content Manager software. Many of the approaches presented in this paper apply to other content management systems as well.IBM Lotus Web Content Management software and existing enterprise content management solutions: patterns for integration.Page
Integration scenarios for IBM FileNet and IBM Content Manager softwareHighlights There are several ways to integrate Lotus Web Content Management software with FileNet and Content Manager software. This paper addresses integrating FileNet and Content Manager software with Lotus Web Content Management software using:
. A personalization resource collection.. A personalization feeds resource collection.. The IBM Web Content Integrator offering from IBM Software Services for Lotus software.. JavaServer Pages (JSP) components to assist with integration.. The Lotus Web Content Management application programming interface (API).
In many of these examples, the APIs of the ECM system are called directly, so the API libraries must be installed and properly configured. Please refer to the documentation provided with each ECM for proper configuration information.
This paper discusses several approaches to integrating Lotus Web Content Management software, and it presents the proper methods you can use to implement these integration options.
Integration using the personalization resource collectionLotus Web Content Management software includes a robust personalization engine that can be used to integrate with external content sources. Once these integrations are configured, the data sets are referred to as resource collections. Different selection criteria can be used to query these resource collections.IBM Lotus Web Content Management software and existing enterprise content management solutions: patterns for integration.Page
This integration approach returns a list of content objects-for example, Highlights documents, images and database records. Lotus Web Content Management software manages the presentation of content that is returned by a query of the resource collection.
Lotus Web Content Management software includes built-in resource collections for Web content, documents and portal user information. To generate code for resource collections for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories ®and structured query language (SQL) databases, IBM Rational Application Developer software provides easy-to-use wizards. The APIs and interfaces required for defining a resource collection to the personalization engine are all public. The APIs are documented in the personalization JavaDoc, which is avail-able with the product install under /doc/Javadoc/Personalization... [download for more]
