Document Management, Document Management Software

It’s been busy enough this week, especially with the CODiE awards where SpringCM has a lot to shout about, while DocuLex has upgraded Archive Studio, eFileCabinet has entered a new partnership and Gartner has identified what it considers the coolest content management vendors on the planet.

Usually it’s the Monday of any given vendor conference that the big news gets released. In the case of EMC, it was the partner conference yesterday in Las Vegas (Sunday) that set the tone for a conference that looks set to be full of interesting nuggets. Two big things came out of it yesterday, both of them issues where many people wanted to see what EMC would say.

In the 2012 CODiE Awards for the Business Software Industry, SpringCM, Pervasive Software, Citrix Online and Coverity Inc. get recognized.

This week, we look at the Q2 2012 Forrester Wave Digital Asset Management for Customer Experience report, what went down at the Henry Stewart DAM event in New York, a partnership between ADAM Software and ConceptShare, how to measure maturity in the young DAM marketplace and a new white paper from Widen.

This week there’s been a number of items, including the partnership between M-Files and goVirtualOffice for NetSuite Integration, Laserfiche has released an app for iPad, Zoho continues to offer social capabilities, Metalogix releases SharePoint Content Manager and Hannon Hill releases Cascade v7.0.

Metalogix Software has released a solution that makes it faster and more efficient to manage content in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The new solution, Content Manager, enhances SharePoint with the ability to make bulk edits to metadata and a ribbon that makes it easier for users to have access to advanced features such as taxonomy.

It seems like only yesterday that we were shouting about the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010. In fact, it is just about two years ago (May 12, 2010) that it was released. And with a mere two years on the market, we’re starting to shout about the release of the next edition — SharePoint 15.

This week, there have been a number of interesting releases, including haromon.ie’s app for document collaboration for SharePoint accessible on iPad, Halcyon has updated its document management software for IBM i, Sertifi is offering free e-signing in Salesforce and Accusoft offers cloud capture for Silverlight.

Every year, the TechStars Boston Demo Day produces some interesting new companies. This year was no exception. One of the companies that particularly caught our eye was DocTrackr, which offers a service that enables users keep track of their documents wherever they may be. Hence the name DocTrackr.

Harmon.ie, the enterprise workflow integration specialists, has debuted a new mobile SharePoint iPad app, and the company promises a full mobile device management offering by the end of June.

A great many of the content and tools for employees are badly designed and managed because management does not respect employee time.

This week, SpringCM upgraded its document approval software, Amazon released Send to Kindle for Mac, OpenText and BigHand released their first integrated offering, Agility upgrades its Web CMS and NovoDynamics releases device-neutral OCR.

Agility has announced new updates to its Web CMS platform, supporting faster editing of both content and images.

Only a day after Box CEO Aaron Levie said he doesn't see Google Drive as a competitor, Box rolls out major enhancements to its application programming interface and the Box OneCloud App to App Framework.

Google's much-anticipated cloud storage service has been launched, offering 5GB of free storage to all users, with the message "keep everything, share anything."

Picturepark announced the release of its Dropbox Connector, which integrates its digital asset management software with the popular Dropbox file sharing solution.

This week, Microsoft offered us a new definition of pulling speed when it took Office for Mac SP2 off the shelves, SharePoint and DotNetNuke get close, SpringCM joins the mobile party, Perceptive also gets mobile with Interact and Adobe releases CS6/Extended.

If you were to look at the business pages of any major newspaper in the past couple of days, you’d swear IT was in meltdown. The reactions to the Q1 figures for both IBM and Intel have pushed stock markets down. However, while the stockholders might not be getting what they want — no tears shed here — the IT areas that we know, love and like have all performed despite difficult times in Europe.

It’s been all of three weeks since OpenText released something new. We were getting worried. But today, we have news of two new releases: One is for global brand management and the other is an upgrade to OpenText Alchemy, its document management solution for small and medium-sized businesses.

According to Forrester Research, the U.S. information management sector sees 66% of all projects fail, largely as a result of poorly defined processes and communications. The bottom line is that many of the observed project failings look preventable.

This pattern seems to be even more extreme when it comes to Enterprise CMS projects…but why?

Questions that deserve a closer look include:

• Is there a prevailing pattern to Enterprise CMS (ECM) project successes and failures?
• Does the technology platform play a significant role in success patterns?
• How can we avoid some of the most common pitfalls with ECM projects?

To address these topics ECM and document management technology vendor, Nuxeo, has teamed up with AIIM CIO, Laurence Hart, to create a one-hour webinar entitled Why Enterprise CMS Projects Fail.

Laurence Hart has a deep history in the Enterprise CMS and Information Management space having spend the previous two decades in CIO, CTO and Enterprise Architect roles.

If project success is on your mind, join the conversation and register for the April 26th event.  

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