The Content Services delivers these business benefits because of its comprehensive design. It encompasses all lifecycle elements of enterprise content management; including content transfer, metadata, workflow, workareas, locking, and many other functions. These functions are made available as a Web Services in a vendor-neutral solution, promising to hide many of the differences between competing software platforms, programming languages, and hardware specifics.

The standard is built on the basic foundational standards for Web Services �WSDL (Web Service Description Language) and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).