There are two fundamental ways of integrating content, both supported by Mobius solutions.  The first approach utilizes a single, integrated content repository such as ViewDirect.  The second provides a consolidated view of content in multiple, disparate repositories.  The best method for a given enterprise is dependent on the number of repositories currently in use, the willingness to undertake conversions, and the importance of speed in effecting a solution.

Integrating all content in a single system will significantly reduce IT infrastructure costs by consolidating servers and eliminating software that the enterprise licenses and maintains.  It will also simplify the environment for users who now need to learn and log on to only one system to retrieve the content they need. Converting content from legacy content management systems may be time consuming and/or impractical, putting the ultimate objective of consolidated content either beyond reach or well off in the future.

The alternative is Total Content Integrator, a solution that provides a consolidated view of content in multiple, disparate repositories.  This approach provides flexibility in selecting-or retaining- different vendors for different applications, leverages existing investments, and speeds implementation.

Total Content Integrator (TCI) provides seamless access to content stored anywhere in the enterprise. It is an out-of-the-box "content services bus" that gives users fast, easy and secure access to disparate and isolated content sources, including ViewDirect and non-ViewDirect repositories, databases, file systems, and e-mail applications.

Standards-Based Architecture Enables Seamless Access

All Total Content Integrator components are built using packaged Web services, enabling a single request from a Web application to activate a search across multiple, disparate repositories.  TCI scales from the department to the enterprise, imposing no limits on the number of content repository connections, concurrent users or types and volumes of content.

Content Connection that Spans the Enterprise

Mobius publishes an open source interface to TCI that can be used to develop applications that can retrieve content from all repositories connected to Total Content Integrator.  This Web Services Description Language (WSDL)-based content integration framework enhances the "plug-and-play" interoperability of the system and connects any user of content to any source of content.  Mobius provides a wide range of adapters that integrate access to various content sources: Enterprise Content Management Adapters, Application Adapters, Database Adapters and Customized Adapters to homegrown applications and repositories.

Intelligent Content Access

TCI comprises five basic services: search locates and retrieves content across multiple sources, authentication ensures secure access with flexible options for validating a user's credentials, index mapping resolves relationships between indexes, content delivery presents content to users in a Web browser, a desktop application or a native viewing client like DocumentDirect for the Internet, and archive write adds content from any other source directly into the ViewDirect repository. 

Total Content Integrator connects content providers to content consumers