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8.2.4  Integration with other Enterprise Content Manager products
Content Manager OnDemand provides integration points with other IBM Enterprise Content 
Manager software on many different levels. Integration can occur on the client level (for 
example, by using another product’s user interface (UI) as the client for Content Manager 
OnDemand). Y ou can use an infrastructural integration in which another product accesses 
Content Manager OnDemand and information is exchanged between the products at a lower 
level.
For more information about the most common integrations, see Federated Content 
Management: Accessing Content from Disparate Repositories with IBM Content Federation 
Services and IBM Content Integrator, SG24-7742.
8.2.5  Federated search with IBM Information Integrator
Information Integrator is an IBM Enterprise Content Manager product that is available for all 
Enterprise Content Manager customers. Although it has many functions, it is primarily a 
federation system.
It can connect to various systems, such as Content Manager OnDemand, Content Manager, 
FileNet P8, and content management systems by other vendors. Y ou can create a virtual 
archive, spanning across all connected systems and document models. Users can search in 
one system and the search is propagated to multiple back-end repositories. Information 
Integrator maps virtual fields to folder fields in Content Manager OnDemand (or respective 
models in other systems) and delivers a consistent hit list of documents to the user.
Content Integrator might be an option for you if you use separate Content Manager 
OnDemand systems (instances or physical systems) and must provide a cross-system 
search (for example, for eDiscovery or legal inquiries). Another use case is to provide 
repository-neutral services with access to multiple content management systems.
8.2.6  Integration with IBM FileNet P8
Integration exists between IBM FileNet P8 and Content Manager OnDemand through FileNet 
Content Federation Services. Content Manager OnDemand documents can be federated into 
FileNet P8, making them accessible like any other FileNet P8 documents for FileNet P8 
users. 
This federation differs compared to Information Integrator. In Content Federation Services, for 
each Content Manager OnDemand document, a virtual document is created in FileNet P8 
(resulting in database records in FileNet P8). So, these documents act as FileNet P8 
documents from a FileNet P8 user’s perspective. Information Integrator does not have its own 
database and does not create virtual documents, but it instead calls Content Manager 
OnDemand for searches and passes on the result list. A search in FileNet P8 never starts a 
search in Content Manager OnDemand, but it can find only federated Content Manager 
OnDemand documents, which are cataloged in the FileNet P8 database.
Note: Information Integrator is an abstraction layer. Y ou lose Content Manager OnDemand 
specific functionality, because the virtual archive provides only the common functionality 
that can be implemented by all archives. Always check your use case to verify that a virtual 
archive meets your needs for functional compatibility and performance.