Documentum is the company name for the Pleasanton, California based software company. Its also the name of its flagship Enterprise Content Management Software.

Documentum was founded in 1990 by Howard Shao and John Newton. Xerox Corporation funded Documentum (originally known as EDMS), but played a smaller role in its founding than most people think. Only a tiny amount of technology changed hands from Xerox Park and they made some initial introductions to some of the pharmaceuticals. In general, they made it difficult to raise money and they didn’t until October 1993.

Documentum went public on Feb 16th, 1996, on Jeff Miller’s birthday who was then CEO.

The best way to explain what is Documentum is to think of it, as a collection of specialized software tools and products to manage this content.

The Documentum 4 Dummies project has a new home. Quietly in the background we have been building and moving to a fresh new site. We have ditched WordPress and are now hosting the site via Joomla! It is ironic that we should be building the site on an open source CMS. But as you know EMC's Documentum is a proprietary set of products and they don't take kindly anyone using it unless they have a valid license. And as we all know Documentum is not for the faint in heart or the pocketbook!

Not only do we have a new site, we are focusing on a new direction. To build a viable community of interested people looking to share idea's and knowledge about Documentum. As of writing this, the original Documentum 4 Dummies site has registered over 162,000 hits this year. And the amazing thing is we have not updated any of the information in months as we prepared to move to the new platform.