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Oracle Imaging and Process Management IPM These components can be deployed as applications to an Oracle WebLogic Server
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3.16.1 Oracle Universal Content Management UCM
Oracle Universal Content Management Oracle UCM provides a unified application for several different kinds of content management.
Oracle Universal Content Management UCM is an enterprise content management platform that enables you to leverage document management, Web content
management, digital asset management, and records retention functionality to build and complement your business applications. Building a strategic enterprise content
management infrastructure for content and applications helps you to reduce costs, easily share content across the enterprise, minimize risk, automate expensive,
time-intensive and manual processes, and consolidate multiple Web sites onto a single platform for centralized management. Through user-friendly interfaces, roles-based
authentication and security models, Oracle Universal Content Management empowers users throughout the enterprise to view, collaborate on or retire content, ensuring that
all accessible distributed or published information is secure, accurate and up-to-date.
Oracle UCM is now deployed in WebLogic Server WLS, resulting in many significant changes from previous releases of UCM.
3.16.2 Oracle Universal Records Management URM
Oracle Universal Records Management Oracle URM effectively manages content items on a retention schedule, which determines the life cycle of that content item.
The focus of records management tends to be the preservation of content for historical, legal, or archival purposes while also performing retention management functions.
The focus of retention management tends to be the scheduled elimination of content in which the costs of retaining content outweighs the value of keeping it.
Oracle URM combines both record and retention management into one software system. You can use Oracle URM to track and to preserve content as needed, or to
dispose of content when it is no longer required.
3.16.3 Oracle Inbound Refinery IBR
Oracle Inbound Refinery Oracle IBR is a conversion server that manages file conversions for electronic assets such as documents, digital images, and motion video.
In addition to conversion, Oracle IBR provides thumbnail functionality for documents and images, story boarding for video, and the ability to extract and use EXIF data from
digital images and XMP data from electronic files generated from programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. You can use Oracle IBR to convert content
items stored in Oracle Content Server.
3.16.4 Oracle Information Rights Management IRM
Oracle Information Rights Management Oracle IRM distributes rights management between centralized servers and desktop agents.
Oracle IRM enables documents or emails to be automatically or manually sealed at any stage in their lifecycle, using sealing tools integrated into the Microsoft Windows
desktop, authoring applications, email clients, and content management and
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collaborative repositories. Sealing wraps documents and emails within a layer of strong encryption and digital signatures, together with indelible links back to
network-hosted servers operated by the organization to which the information belongs that store the decryption keys and associated access rights.
Sealed documents and emails can be distributed by any existing means, including email, the Web, and file sharing.
For more information about Oracle IRM refer to the Oracle Information Rights Management Server Administrators Guide for Microsoft Windows 32-Bit.
3.16.5 Oracle Imaging and Process Management IPM
