text: **17.1 Content Federation Services for Content Manager**
  **OnDemand and IBM Enterprise Records overview**
  
  IBM FileNet Content Federation Services enables organizations to access content from 
  numerous heterogeneous repositories anywhere in the enterprise and federate this 
  information to provide a single enterprise source for critical business content. Content 
  Federation Services for Content Manager OnDemand enables enterprises to perform 
  federation, search, retrieve, and records management functions across Content Manager 
  OnDemand repositories. 
  
  IBM Enterprise Records positions your business to provide legally compliant records that 
  meet government regulations at the time of inquiry that follow your corporate record policy file 
  plan. 
  
  Content Manager OnDemand handles a high volume of document ingestion to the system, 
  typically of a static nature, such as credit card or bank statements. Each document ingestion 
  might contain thousands of individual documents or pages. Content Manager OnDemand 
  offers a retention feature so that you can set the document retention for a fixed period at the 
  document ingestion time, for example, an investment company that applies a simple retention 
  policy of eight years to all of their customer statements. 
  
  Content Manager OnDemand does not apply an event-based retention policy that is based 
  on, for example, the date that the customer closed an account. In this scenario, the clock 
  does not begin the eight-year period until the customer closes the account. By enabling 
  records federation services by using Content Federation Services for Content Manager 
  OnDemand, you can manage Content Manager OnDemand content in a manner that is 
  consistent with your organization’s records retention policies. 