Document Management Roll-up: EntropySoft Connects Repositories, Improved Office Apps for Blackberry?

By David Roe (@druadh20) Sep 7, 2010

Busy, Busy, Busy. Labour Day weekend over and right back into it. This week document capture features quite large, with a couple of new solutions and Kofax hitting the high notes with its end-of-year figures. Hyland Software has also been looking at document and content security.

EntropySoft Connects Document Repositories

First this week, content integration vendor EntropySoft (news, site) has just announced the release of its Content Hub Appliance. Content Hub Appliance (CHA) is a single platform that provides out-of-the-box connectivity for over 30 applications.

It does this by enabling administrators to connect enterprises document repositories to the Content Hub Appliance, which facilitates the easy transfer of documents across the enterprise.

And there are no limits to the amount of information that can be interconnected. With CHA, repositories become available to all applications producing content across the enterprise and provides a single point of access to all the connected repositories through the EntropySoft Web Services, CMIS (Web Services and REST implementations), Java, Java remote and .Net.

In particular, with considerable experience with document management development in large corporations, CHA will be able to connect document management systems to any archiving platform as well as synchronize two document repositories using content transfer bridge templates.

It can be downloaded from EntropySoft’s support site and only takes minimal installation and configuration. EntropySoft offers a monthly subscription basis and a pay-as-you-use model. Want to find out more check out the video.

RIM To Improve BlackBerry Office Apps?

For those with BlackBerries, enhanced performance from both Office and Exchange could be on the way with news (as yet unconfirmed by the company) that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has just bought mobile Office and Exchange support software maker DataViz.

The figure being tossed about the Web for the acquisition of the Documents To Go vendor is US$ 50 million, which is probably not a lot to pay for a little edge when you look at what BlackBerry is competing with at the moment.

Both companies are being irritatingly quiet about the deal, but some are citing the fact that DataViz has also announced that it will no longer provide a webOS version of Documents To Go as evidence that it will be concentrating on BlackBerry and, of course, that it has been bought out.

Why RIM (news, site) would go and spend millions on DataViz rather that approaching Microsoft and working with them is also a mystery, but no doubt the details will be in the small print — if anyone actually gets to see that.