CM targets Web services - Documentum preps embeddable content management components.(Company Business and Marketing)

VENDORS OF content management systems, including Documentum, Vignette, and Interwoven, are carving out a role in Web services, introducing support for open standards and working to layer CM functionality into applications as services.

It makes sense to work toward surfacing CM capabilities as Web services, said Rob Perry, senior analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston. "I think it is a good direction because the integration of content into other applications is what [enterprises] need to do more easily," Perry said. Through components, APIs, and Web services, "content players are trying to make it easier to interact with CM systems and get content into other …