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Wednesday, Feb 28 2007

While blogging is one of the simplest ways to get your enterprise all blinged-out for Enterprise 2.0, it’s not the only option. Enter enterprise wiki.

A major benefit of Wikis is that your site can keep serving up-to-date, dynamic content that’s immediately relevant to users — and it’s the users themselves who create (and often even moderate) it. Could there be a dreamier solution for time- and cash-strapped companies trying to increase information relevancy on their websites, or build a loyal community? Enterprise Wiki vendor Atlassian Confluence thinks not.

Colligo Networks, an offline collaboration solutions for mobile professionals, has announced the release of Version 2.0 of the Colligo for SharePoint product family. The new release supports the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Vista and aims to further the reach of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 to “users who need access both online and offline — enabling these businesses to effectively increase the adoption and utility of SharePoint with their workforce.”

Open Text and Sun Microsystems join forces to deliver a powerful e-mail management offering. The solution targets the big boys — having been designed to serve global organizations facing problems with monitoring and archiving volumes of correspondence — and is of course fueled by the on-going race to meet regulatory compliance demands.

Monday, Feb 26 2007

When the tool changes, so too should the skill and the technique. More and more, hypertext is replacing text and the Web is replacing print.

Friday, Feb 23 2007

Thanks for the support y’all. The likes of Adido Solutions, Alpha Card, Asbru, BrowserMedia, CMS Watch, Comp USA, Ektron, Hot Banana, Sitellite, Toshiba, Quantum Art, WebCart, and of course dear old uncle Google have kept the Nespresso machines running this week. And we are thankful.

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You’ve heard the rumors. We reported on the speculation. Finally, Google has officially announced its paid application plan. For $50 per user per year, companies can outsource a significant portion, if not all, of their back end IT to the search behemoth.

Central Desktop expands on its suite of collaborative solutions by developing a strategic liaison with EditGrid, a Teams and Concepts Limited brand. With EditGrid’s honed spreadsheet expertise (rivalling even the untouchable Google), Central Desktop users can collaborate on their beloved grids in real-time within the Central Desktop user interface. They can also edit documents in tandom, audio conference, and create discussion threads and versioned file tracking.

Thursday, Feb 22 2007

Enterprise information assets don’t merely consist of the messages companies convey to clients, the documents teams produce, or the end-of-month spreadsheets employees shoot office-wide, justifying their very existence.

As a whole the masses of unstructured content behind most firewalls make up the functional backbone of the enterprise, and increasingly their intellectual property as well. And while plenty of attention is paid to how enterprises create, manage, and archive this data, less is paid to ensuring that critical data remains secure.

It’s not every day here at CMSWire that we can wholeheartedly recommend torrenting a video. However, the times, they are a changin’.

When asked to picture a lifesaving device, your mind may sooner wander to a life vest than to a fax machine. But while opportunities to take full advantage of those sporty orange vests are rare, automated fax solution DbFax can save an uncounted number of lives daily by mere efficiency.

Wednesday, Feb 21 2007

Everybody’s got a problem staying up-to-date with whatever still-wet ink on paper has just been printed to alleviate (or fuel?) an ongoing compliance crisis. Even life science companies have trouble keeping the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) happy, and that’s why they’ve enlisted the aid of ECM goliath Open Text.

Open source Enterprise CMS vendor Alfresco has announced their latest platform update and some exciting new packaging.

Alfresco 2.0 provides users with integrated repositories, search across multiple repositories as well as the Internet, and enables simple applications to take advantage of access to multiple repositories.