FileNet Sets New Standard In ECM Performance

FileNet Corporation, the leading provider of Enterprise Content and Business Process Management solutions, announced the results of an extensive document object benchmark for its FileNet P8 platform today.

The tests evaluated the ability of FileNet P8 to perform critical content management and business process management transactions with very high volumes of content on cost-effective hardware. Content management transactions included FileNet P8's ability to create, retrieve, search, browse, and catalog content, while essential business process operations including view, update and launch workflow were also measured.

During testing, the FileNet P8 system easily scaled to more than 2 billion document objects, while sustaining more than 20 transactions per second of a combined business process and content management real-world workload, equivalent to as many as 7,000 simultaneous users.

The FileNet P8 system was tested using the Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55 with fiber channel disk drives totaling 6.57 TB of storage capacity. The NSC55, powered by the Hitachi Universal Star Network crossbar switch architecture, delivers innovative controller-based virtualization, logical partitioning, and universal replication enterprises and fast-growing midsize organizations need to support distributed or departmental applications.

Performance Benchmark highlights include:

• The overall throughput was more than 3,800 individual transactions per minute (over 60 per second) with average response times of less than one second.
• Many of the content and business process transactions measured included 5 or more individual steps. With the overall workload executing simultaneously over the 2 billion object store, 80 percent of the business process management transactions and more than 60 percent of the content management transactions completed in less than two seconds.
• CPU utilization was well under the recommended 40 percent level on all components including application, content, and process servers.
• FileNet P8 continued to scale and perform well with a large number of objects in a low-cost hardware configuration. Intel-based servers were used throughout, each with 2 CPUs.
• High-speed storage performance was reflected in storage-centric operations such as object creation, search and retrieval.

"To manage large volumes of content across the enterprise, an ECM system must be fast and reliable," said Martyn Christian, chief marketing officer at FileNet. "Comparable to real-world workloads, these results validate FileNet's ability to support a highly scalable storage environment that also allows customers to execute key business process and content management operations very rapidly, ensuring timely access to business-critical information at a lower cost of ownership."

"Hitachi Data Systems and FileNet are successfully working together to protect and manage customers' greatest asset-their data," said Scott Genereux, executive vice president and general manager, Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Support, Hitachi Data Systems. "The benchmark results announced today are further proof that customers can align their storage infrastructure with their dynamic ECM requirements. Hitachi's comprehensive and integrated portfolio of Application Optimized Storage solutions and FileNet's industry-leading ECM solutions are a powerful one-two punch for customers that need to effectively store, archive and retrieve data while managing costs."

About FileNet
FileNet Corporation (NASDAQ:FILE) helps organizations make better decisions by managing the content and processes that drive their business. FileNet's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and BPM solutions allow customers to build and sustain competitive advantage by managing content throughout their organizations, automating and streamlining their business processes, and providing a spectrum of connectivity needed to simplify their critical and everyday decision-making.

FileNet ECM products are designed to deliver a broad set of capabilities that integrate with existing information systems to provide cost-effective solutions that solve real-world business problems.

Since the Company's founding in 1982, more than 4,300 organizations, including more than three quarters of the FORTUNE 100, have taken advantage of FileNet solutions for help in managing their mission-critical content and processes.

Headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., the Company markets its innovative ECM solutions in more than 90 countries through its own global sales, professional services and support organizations, as well as via its ValueNet Partner network of resellers, system integrators and application developers.