EMC Documentum is a leading player in the enterprise content management space. That’s not news. What is, is the way the company has, with the release of Documentum v6 (D6), embraced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a first-class principle in its core architecture.
D6 Presents a Full SOA Story
While Documentum v5.3 had support for implementing web services via the Web Services Framework (WSF), it was a relatively limited set of technologies designed for making Service-based Business Objects (SBO) available as web services. Essentially, you could take a piece of business logic in Documentum and make a web service out of it.