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the Free CMSWire NewsletterThe end of another year in document management, and what a year it was. There really was something for everyone from SharePoint, to HP and Autonomy, from open source to enterprise CMS. Here are some of what we think are the highlights of the year. Undoubtedly you’ll have others, so let us know and maybe we can get a second list up and running in the New Year.
1. OpenText Gets Certified
For OpenText, the year began on a high note for its partnership with Microsoft. Focused on GRC and compliance, their combined records management ability was endorsed with DoD 5015.02-STD certification.
With it, OpenText’s ECM Suite 2010 became the first major enterprise CMS to be given the certification, considerably extending the reach and use of both software products.
While it was clearly good for OpenText, it was also a pretty good for SharePoint 2010. Since the SharePoint 2010 release in May of last year, there had been a considerable number of arguments surrounding the merits of records management in SharePoint, and this went some way to addressing that.
2. IBM’s Symphony
With the battle intensifying to capture the Web office productivity suites market, IBM launched LotusLive Symphony for the cloud, an office suite that offers a social platform enabling simultaneous collaboration on documents in the cloud.
IBM at the time said it believed LotusLive integration would make the difference. LotusLive is IBM’s portal, offering a number of collaboration and social networking services in cloud. That might not be enough to beat the competition, which is very stiff in this space, but IBM was quite clear about what it aimed to do with Symphony.
One of those goals was to break the link between Microsoft Office desktops and business by offering something that would enable organizations to socially enable their business processes. And at the end of the year it is still trying to break Microsoft’s grip.
3. Nuxeo Gets Eclipsed
Nuxeo put its code where its mouth was. The open source document management vendor contributed its content repository technology, Nuxeo Core, to the Eclipse Foundation. The contribution aimed to spur the development of a CMIS-based content repository.
4. Is SharePoint the Future of Enterprise CMS?
Chelsi Nakano looked into the future of SharePoint — if indeed anyone can really do that — and saw in the shifts in shape and structure the beginnings of a new environment for managing data. Unfortunately for traditional systems, this territory comes with a set of rules that may be a bit difficult to adjust to.
To recognize where the change is taking place, it helps to look at things from a young company’s point of view, so she spoke a bit with Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box.net. Some interesting and still relevant insights here.
5. State of the Enterprise CMS Industry 2011
In April came one of the highlights of the enterprise CMS year when AIIM published its State of the Industry report for 2011. It found that, while some progress was being made in dealing with content chaos, there’s still a lot of work to be done.
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