Document Management, Document Management Software

With a lot of competition on its hands, Dropbox wants to remain relevant in both the consumer and enterprise markets. With Google Drive dominance looming around the corner, Dropbox is offering more space than ever to its Pro users.

Forget Obamacare. There's something big happening in the healthcare industry, and it seems there is a silver lining to this cloud. Studies say that security, regulatory and privacy concerns might get in the way of cloud computing in the healthcare industry, although this sector is set to grow in the medium term. Cloud computing in healthcare is projected to grow to US$ 5.4 billion by 2017.

This week we’re still waiting for a proper look at Office 15, Dynamics CRM gets a new document capture tool, Sharegate offers economical SharePoint content migration, Colligo builds a fortune around SharePoint, and Doo goes on general release.

In a move it described as “pruning the garden,” online application provider Zoho has decided that it’s time to retire some of its products.

Since its creation in 2006, KnowledgeTree has been developing its SaaS document management solution in a way that is quite unique. While the emphasis has been on document management, it has also underlined the social aspects of managing documents, and will use a US$ 4.75 million Series B funding round to continue this development.

It may be a short week, but there’s still plenty happening. There are ongoing rumors that Office 15 will go into public beta any day now, Foxit offers PDF management for Surface, ABBYY and SoftCo partner, while WatchDox offers a Dropbox, Box alternative. Huddle is also offering syncing functionality for iPad.

Dell has announced it is buying Quest Software, a diverse IT infrastructure company, for US$ 2.4 billion.

Storage management solutions vendor Symantec Corp. is partnering with open source software provider Red Hat, Inc. to jointly offer private and hybrid cloud applications and datacenter solutions. The new solutions will feature Symantec storage and availability tools running on the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.

You really know you’ve made it when someone names a sickness after you. Such is the case of Dropbox, and what is known as Dropbox syndrome. We’ll get to that in a minute after looking at WatchDox’s sync feature which is due to be released next month.

Welcome to the June 2012 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

Enterprise social platform provider Telligent has been named Microsoft Digital Marketing Partner of the Year for 2012. The Digital Marketing Partner of the Year Award recognizes an “exceptional partner who has excelled in developing rich Internet solutions that are highly functional, scalable, flexible, and secure through a unified platform for intranet, extranet, and Internet sites.”

This week IBM released Content Navigator that enables users to access documents on the go, Alfresco’s cloud offering leaves beta and goes on general release, Accusoft offers a scanner for Android, FileHold and Cirilab Partner for unstructured content analysis, and Australian AsdeqLabs offers repository access through iPad.

Last time I presented Part 1 of this three part series on governing taxonomies, focusing on the initial steps in taxonomy development (e.g. taking the initial steps to building out a taxonomy, project planning, etc…). For this post, I want to talk about the Maintenance Processes, or what to do with a taxonomy once it’s built.

Alfresco is now available in the cloud. On Thursday, the company behind the open-source document management and collaboration platform announced that its software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud version, which had been available in beta, will now be generally available.

Box has made a business of being adaptable. At this stage there must be very few online business applications that it doesn’t integrate with. It works with Google and Salesforce, and today, it has just announced that it will work with LiquidPlanner.

This week, it seems everyone is concerned about finding the right information in the right place. MetaVis makes its migration tools compatible with Office 365 for Government, Recommind adds a SharePoint module for Decisiv Search, DiscoverReady and Equivio extend their partnership, while QlikTech buys Expressor.

Though quiet on the news front this week, there were a few things we thought worth noting. There are more unsubstantiated rumors about a November release date for Office for iPad, Citrix and YouSendIt Integrate, Snowbound upgraded one of its SDKs, and we took a look at exactly what a doo can do.

Cloud storage provider Box is broadening its horizons. The company announced it is expanding to Europe and plans to generate 30 percent of its revenue from the market within 18 months. Will the increased international focus give Box an edge against its competitors?

Doo, a provider of cloud-based document collection, organization and storage services, is launching the open beta version of its solution. The native doo apps for OSX and Windows 8 Metro are now available, and the company intends to launch apps for platforms including iOS and Android as well as a Google Docs integration in the near future.

 While info360 addressed enterprise challenges related to the social, mobile and local workforce, there was still a considerable focus on big data. After all, just because you’re on the go, doesn’t mean you’ve stopped creating information.

We spoke with Josh Gilbertson, SkyDox co-founder about how the enterprise-class, cloud-enabled, secure file sharing and collaboration platform is helping to align content against the constantly evolving trends of an increasingly savvy consumer base.