SharePoint and Documentum integration

Documentum is a well know enterprise class document and records management solution. It seems no matter where I go, clients have it, want it or want to get rid of it.
Most of my customers keep there enterprise class document and records management toolset and use SharePoint for work in progress. You might be saying 'I thought SharePoint is enterprise class?'. There are several reasons why clients would keep their existing toolset but that is beyond the scope of this blog. So why Documentum? Here are a few points:

• Leader in ECM space (Gartner)
• Leader in compliance and regulatory platform
• Unified global platform allowing federation
• End to end content lifecycle management
• Proven scalability
• Robust security

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Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007

This article show how to take external repositories (Documentum, Interwoven, etc) and surface them in SharePoint as if they were a document library. This project goes way beyond a few web parts to integrate capabilities such as workflow and custom metadata. There is also a Code Gallery project with the implementation. Although the project is not a full CMIS implementation, it is based on the CMIS specification. Here is a screen shot of an external repository surfaced in SharePoint using Silverlight as the UI.
SCOT HILLIER's article on MSDN