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Hummingbird Unveils Innovative Content Drive Technology
Hummingbird Ltd., provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions unveiled Content Drive(TM), an innovative new technology designed to streamline the way desktop applications interact with the Hummingbird Enterprise(TM) content repository.
Content Drive represents a fundamental shift in enterprise content management architecture that vastly improves performance of content-based interactions between Hummingbird Enterprise and all integrated content authoring applications, including Microsoft Office.
Most enterprise content management systems directly manage file transfer operations between user desktops and the content repository, within their code. This additional layer, which duplicates the file transfer capabilities inherent in the Microsoft Windows operating system, increases complexity and reduces overall system stability and reliability.
Content Drive introduces a revolutionary approach where all file operations to the content repository are handled natively at the Microsoft operating system kernel level, eliminating the need to write and maintain specific code to transfer the documents. This approach provides Hummingbird Enterprise users with a system that is significantly more reliable than traditional enterprise content management systems of competing vendors, while also introducing significant performance benefits because the file operations are executed at the OS kernel level.
In one Hummingbird benchmark test, leveraging the new Content Drive technology, an Excel spreadsheet with more than 1,300 links to multiple spreadsheets was retrieved from the Hummingbird Enterprise content repository and the links were updated in a matter of seconds as opposed to hours.
"Hummingbird Content Drive allows our leading enterprise content management solution to integrate with the Microsoft Windows operating system at the kernel-level, making Hummingbird Enterprise a virtually seamless extension of the existing network infrastructure," said Barry Litwin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hummingbird Ltd. "Eliminating extra overhead and utilizing existing fail-safe methods for file transfer at the kernel level, our users will experience significant performance benefits and improved reliability of over-the-network content transfer operations."
Content Drive will be of benefit to all organizations leveraging content management systems, including large financial institutions, law firms and government agencies where there are stringent requirements to manage the lifecycle of complex and compound documents.
"Our combined experience in network connectivity and enterprise content management solutions provides Hummingbird with a unique perspective to deliver this breakthrough technology," added Litwin.
"Organizations evaluating their content strategy should consider not only the overarching imperatives of ECM, including compliance, cost reduction, and knowledge management, but also the need for end user adoption of technology within content-enabled vertical applications," said Toby Bell, Research Director, Gartner, Inc. "An enterprise content management solution that is optimized for not only the core organizational requirements but also for access, availability, and delivery of content to the end user is much more likely to spur adoption, striking a better balance of business solutions - as organizational requirements for complex and compound document management increase - with optimal end user experience."
Availability: Hummingbird Content Drive(TM) is expected to be generally available this summer as part of Hummingbird Enterprise 2005. For more information, please visit www.hummingbird.com and order a Content Drive Primer. 30.03.2005, Hummingbird Ltd.
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