Content Federation Service
Connect the Content You Already Have to the
Hyland Content Innovation Cloud
Your organization’s most valuable information already exists — across OnBase, other enterprise content repositories, on-premises systems and cloud environments.
Hyland Content Federation Service™ (CFS) provides a secure, scalable way to connect existing content repositories to the Hyland Content Innovation Cloud™ (CIC) — without requiring that content to first be migrated or consolidated.
CFS provides the connection between the content you have today and the cloud-native, AI-powered capabilities available through the Content Innovation Cloud.
Keep your content where it belongs. Connect it to what’s next.
Meet Your Content
Where It Is
Enterprise content is rarely stored in one place.
Organizations may have millions of documents and other forms of unstructured information residing across enterprise content repositories, on-premises infrastructure and cloud platforms.
Moving all of that information simply to take advantage of new technology can introduce significant cost, complexity and disruption.
Hyland Content Federation Service provides another approach.
CFS allows organizations to connect existing repositories directly to Content Innovation Cloud solutions while preserving their current infrastructure.
This provides a practical path for organizations to take advantage of modern cloud-native and AI-powered capabilities while allowing existing enterprise content to remain where it resides.
What Is
Hyland Content Federation Service?
Hyland Content Federation Service is based upon data federation principles — a data integration approach that provides a unified way to interact with distributed information without requiring the underlying content to be physically moved, duplicated or consolidated.
CFS provides the connectivity between existing enterprise repositories and solutions within the Hyland Content Innovation Cloud.
With Content Federation Service, organizations can:
- Connect existing repositories to Content Innovation Cloud solutions
- Connect content residing on-premises or in the cloud
- Preserve existing infrastructure and content investments
- Make unstructured information accessible to modern AI-powered capabilities
- Maintain existing authentication and authorization controls
- Support security, governance and compliance objectives
- Add or update connected systems as business requirements evolve
The result is a modern integration layer that helps organizations unlock more value from the enterprise content they already have.
Content Federation Service Goes Beyond Federated Search
The term “federation” has traditionally had a particular meaning within the content services industry.
Federated search generally refers to querying multiple repositories and presenting the resulting information through a common search experience.
Content Federation Service goes beyond traditional federated search.
CFS is based on data federation. Rather than functioning simply as a search application, it provides deeper integration between distributed enterprise content and the solutions that need to use that information.
Content remains within its existing repository while Content Federation Service provides the connection necessary for supported Content Innovation Cloud capabilities to work with that information.
CFS provides the connection. Content Innovation Cloud solutions provide the intelligence, automation and business capabilities.
Learn More About Hyland Content Federation Service
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Download the Hyland Content Federation Service Product Overview for additional information about key features, benefits, security and compliance capabilities, and common use cases.
Connect Existing Content to Content Innovation Cloud Solutions
The value of Content Federation Service becomes especially apparent when organizations want existing enterprise information to participate in new cloud-native and AI-powered applications.
CFS provides the connectivity that enables supported Content Innovation Cloud solutions to work with information maintained within existing enterprise repositories.
Hyland Automate
Connect enterprise content with cloud-native process automation to help incorporate information residing within established repositories into modern automated business processes.
Hyland Knowledge Discovery
Make connected enterprise information available to Knowledge Discovery, helping organizations use AI-powered capabilities to discover knowledge and insights contained within their content.
Hyland Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
Connect enterprise content to intelligent document processing capabilities that transform unstructured information into structured, actionable data.
Content Intelligence and AI
CFS helps make unstructured enterprise information accessible to Content Innovation Cloud capabilities supporting knowledge discovery and enrichment, intelligent document processing, agent-based automation and generative AI.
As Hyland continues to expand the Content Innovation Cloud, CFS provides an important foundation for connecting existing enterprise information to these modern capabilities.
Connect Content Across Your Enterprise
Enterprise information can exist across numerous repositories and locations.
Content Federation Service provides organizations with a way to connect supported existing repositories — whether on-premises or in the cloud — directly to Content Innovation Cloud solutions without requiring re-platforming or migration simply to make that information available.
Depending upon your Hyland environment and currently supported connectors, this may include content maintained within platforms such as:
- Hyland OnBase
- Hyland Alfresco
- Hyland Nuxeo
- Hyland Perceptive Content
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Other repositories supported by Hyland
For existing OnBase customers, CFS presents a particularly compelling opportunity: extend the value of an established OnBase investment while creating a bridge to the next generation of Hyland cloud-native and AI-powered services.
Where Content Federation Service Makes Sense
Content Federation Service can play an important role in several common enterprise content scenarios.
Federate First.
Migrate Selectively.
Not every modernization initiative needs to begin with a massive content migration.
Sometimes migration is absolutely the right strategy. Aging repositories may need to be retired. Infrastructure costs may need to be reduced. Systems may need to be consolidated.
But migration should be driven by business requirements — not simply by the need to use a new application.
Content Federation Service allows organizations to separate these decisions.
Connect
Connect supported enterprise repositories with the Hyland Content Innovation Cloud.
Modernize
Introduce cloud-native AI, content intelligence, intelligent document processing and automation capabilities.
Evaluate
Determine which repositories continue to provide business value and which may ultimately need to be consolidated, migrated or retired.
Migrate Selectively
Move content when there is a meaningful business, technology, compliance or economic reason for doing so.
Federate first. Migrate selectively. Modernize intelligently.
Security and Compliance
by Design
Connecting enterprise content to cloud-native applications requires more than connectivity.
Security, governance and control matter.
Hyland Content Federation Service is designed to help organizations securely connect enterprise repositories to Content Innovation Cloud solutions while maintaining control over access to their information.
For on-premises connectivity, connections originate from within the customer’s environment, eliminating the need for public endpoints to the organization’s data sources.
CFS also honors existing authentication and authorization controls and can help organizations reinforce compliance and retention policies across connected repositories.
This approach can be particularly valuable for organizations operating in regulated and information-intensive industries such as:
- Government
- Healthcare
- Financial services
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Education
- Legal services
- Utilities and public services
IDT can help incorporate security, authentication, repository permissions, access controls, compliance requirements and information governance considerations into your overall federation architecture.
Extend the Value of the Systems You Already Own
Enterprise organizations have often invested years — sometimes decades — building content repositories, integrations, workflows and business applications.
Those investments still have value.
Content Federation Service creates an opportunity to modernize without assuming everything that came before must be replaced.
Organizations can preserve existing infrastructure while connecting enterprise content to newer AI-powered and cloud-native capabilities.
This can reduce the disruption associated with modernization while allowing organizations to move forward at a pace aligned with their business requirements.
IDT Hyland Content Federation Services
Integrated Document Technologies (IDT) can help organizations develop and implement that strategy.
Why IDT?
Integrated Document Technologies has helped organizations capture, manage, integrate, migrate and transform enterprise information for decades.
Our experience extends across the information lifecycle — from document capture and intelligent data extraction through workflow, enterprise content management, integration, migration, archival and AI-powered content solutions.
For existing OnBase customers in particular, IDT understands both sides of the equation:
The value of the content environment you already have — and the opportunity presented by the Hyland Content Innovation Cloud.
Content Federation Service provides a bridge between them.
IDT can help you determine how to use that bridge effectively.
Your Content Doesn’t Have to Move to Move Your Organization Forward
Your organization may already possess the information needed to automate processes, uncover knowledge and take advantage of the next generation of AI-powered content solutions.
That information doesn’t necessarily need to be moved first.
Hyland Content Federation Service connects the enterprise content you have today with the Content Innovation Cloud capabilities you want to use tomorrow.
IDT can help you build that connection.
Frequently Asked Questions
Integrated Document Technologies (IDT) can help organizations develop and implement that strategy.
Federate first. Migrate selectively.
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