Content Federation Services for Image Services configuration and administration

IBM® FileNet® Content Federation Services for Image Services combines the capabilities of Image Services systems and Content Platform Engine servers. For example, content that is stored in FileNet Image Services can be used by IBM Case Foundation and IBM Enterprise Records, and is accessible through federated search.

Content Federation Services for Image Services provides the following benefits:

• You have direct access to existing Image Services documents from applications that are built on the FileNet P8 Platform . This direct access offers many benefits, including use of the cataloging capabilities that are provided by IBM FileNet Content Manager , access to Image Services documents within Content Platform Engine workflow applications, and the use of IBM Enterprise Records to manage the lifecycle of Image Services documents.
• Existing documents remain in Image Services; there is no need to export, convert, or modify them. Keeping the existing documents in Image Services is a cost benefit and ensures that document integrity is maintained.
• You have use of all existing applications that enter documents into Image Services systems; that is, HPII, MRII, COLD II, DW SAP, Capture, and independent software vendor applications. There is no need to incur the cost of rewriting these applications to take advantage of the FileNet P8 capabilities.
• You can use Image Services to store new Content Platform Engine documents. This ability provides the benefit of using investments in Image Services storage capacity and supports storing Content Platform Engine content on optical media (WORM or rewritable), MSAR, and tape silos (through a FileNet Professional Services offering).
• You have a mechanism for cataloging Image Services documents in Content Platform Engine. The connections between Content Platform Engine and Image Services systems tolerate network outages and system restarts on either side of the connection.
• You have support for full text search of text-based Image Services documents in Content Platform Engine. If the Content Platform Engine object store is configured for full text search, also known as content based retrieval (CBR), the federated document content can be searched in the same way as native Content Platform Engine document content.