The Documentum product suite is an immensely vast sea and describing the complete set of offerings from Documentum within a single book would be unreasonable. However, for those who have just begun exploring Documentum, there are some salient features that one should at least be familiar with in order to conceive/design and develop Documentum applications better.
Those readers who have already worked with Documentum and/or are aware of the fundamentals surrounding Documentum may want to skip this chapter and jump over to subsequent chapters.
While going through the next few chapters, you can always come back to this chapter for a quick reference.
The Content Server forms the heart of Documentum, providing essential services to create, version, manage, and archive content and objects in the Documentum system.
Content Server (earlier known as 'eContent Server') houses a repository, which Documentum terms a 'Docbase', to store the various content and its associated properties (metadata).
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Documentum 5.3 Update
Note that Documentum release 5.3 adds some new and improved features in the Content Server, such as support for dynamic groups, i.e. groups whose list of members is to be treated as a list of potential members, and enhanced object-level permission assignments via ACLs (Access Control Lists).