Document Management, Document Management Software

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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This week, the question of the timing of the Office 15 release came to the fore again with a leaked document appearing on the Web, while Office 2007 support seems to have been extended for a few months. Perceptive offers a document viewer for iPad with an Android viewer due, Yammer bought document collaboration vendor OneDrum, while DocuWare expanded in Canada.

The Interact Mobile product family provides remote access to Perceptive Software enterprise CMS solutions.

Social Business was all the rage this week and these articles stood out from the pack:

• Social Enterprise ROI: Measuring the Immeasurable
• 5 Tips for a Truly Social Business
• Engaged, Collaborative Employees Require CXM Style Thinking

But it wasn't all strategy and best practices: Yammer jumped into document collaboration, eXo built a Social Intranet in the cloud and Atlassian released an update to Confluence.

Next Wednesday, April 18th, our Digital Asset Management (DAM) tweet jam takes place. Tune in to get the latest on DAM strategies, best practices and a grasp of how DAM is impacting Customer Experience and Web Experience. All the Tweet Jam details are here.

Most Popular

• 5 Steps to Creating More Effective Content
• The Art of SharePoint Success: Architecture - The User Centric Intranet
• Yammer Acquisition Adds Document Collaboration to Social Networking
• Microsoft's Vision for Social & What That Might Mean for SharePoint
• Why Intranet Governance is Overrated: It's Really About Change Management

Editor's Picks

• Autonomy's Private Cloud Growth Points to Big Data & Customer Experience
• Social Enterprise ROI: Measuring the Immeasurable
• 5 Tips for a Truly Social Business
• The Oasis Web Experience Management Initiative (WEMI) Kicks Off in Copenhagen
• Engaged, Collaborative Employees Require CXM Style Thinking

Around the Web

• Social Business – 3 Themes for Implementation
• 'Be curious, not furious
• Two Questions that Set the User Experience Bar
• Marketing wants to own ‘Social Engagement?’ Think again.
• Branding inconvenience

Featured Events (all events | post your event)

• Apr 18 — Forrester's Marketing Leadership Forum Los Angeles
• Apr 24 — Internet World London 2012
• Apr 26 — (Webinar) Why Enterprise CMS Projects Fail, and How to Avoid the Pitfalls
• May 02 — (Webinar) Big Data + Customer Experience Management: Are You Ready?
• May 08 — J. Boye Philadelphia 12

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post your job)

• Creative Lead, Copywriter (Creative Lab) in New York at Google
• Software Architect in Washington DC at Armedia
• Senior Software Engineer in Portland at Jive Software
• Senior Vice President of User Experience in San Francisco at Salesforce
• Client Services Project Manager in New Jersey at Connotate

The next version of Office and SharePoint seem likely to land on servers in the first quarter of next year, making it SharePoint 2013, with a beta due this summer.

Beijing, China-based SharePointBoost announced a new web part Permission Reporting Tool to validate individual and group permission status. The company targets improved functionality for SharePoint with a host of web parts that streamline web administrators tasks. For example, last year at this time, SPBoost launched its Outlook workflow solution to customize the out-of-the box SharePoint solution with e-mail drag and drop support from within Outlook.

According to the initial results of a Microsoft SharePoint governance survey commissioned by Axceler, more than two-thirds of the respondents consider SharePoint governance to be extremely or very important to their organizations. Yet nearly half of those same respondents confirmed that SharePoint governance policies do not exist or are undefined.

Adobe wants mobile business users, and its free Reader App opens the door. Just three months ago, the company extended security and digital signature functionality to beef up its pervasive free desktop app, allowing EchoSign functionality that began targeting mobile transactions with "one-stop-shop" for e-Signatures. Now the company is sweetening the pot with free e-signatures so anyone can sign and send documents electronically, without printing or faxing, the company said. 

Security researcher Gareth Wright discovered a Facebook app security hole on iOS devices, and then The Next Web revealed that the Dropbox file-syncing app is also vulnerable.

Amazon has just posted a peek into the usage statistics for its S3 service, perhaps aware of HP's imminent arrival on the scene. This looks like some mountain for any rival to climb.

It's been one of those weeks where a little bit of everything was vying for our attention. A little digital asset management, a little content strategy, a little social business, a touch of SharePoint — you get the drift.

Here are some riveting reads for your holiday weekend:

• Digital Asset Management for Enterprise Intranets
• 5 Steps to Creating More Effective Content
• Driving Adoption in Social Business: More Thoughts from the Front Lines
• Social Media Marketers Search for Answers to Age-Old Questions

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• The Employee is the New Customer
• Managing Records in SharePoint 2010: An ARMA Report Review
• Mobile Apps or Mobile Web? Siteworx's Tim McLaughlin Speaks Out
• Debunking Myths About Facebook Timeline Engagement
• Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in April 2012

Editor's Picks

• 5 Steps to Creating More Effective Content
• Microsoft's Vision for Social & What That Might Mean for SharePoint
• 10 CRM Buying Issues for Your Customer Experience Management Strategy
• Digital Asset Management: Let's Not Forget Why it Started
• Google's Project Glass Offers A Squint into the Future

Around the Web

• 'How Creativity Works': It's All In Your Imagination
• Chat Seen as Customer Service of the Future
• Science Probes Why Tweets Go Viral
• Four Challenges Facing Today's CMOs and How to Overcome Them
• Social Business: The Experience Requirement – Getting Beneath the Advice

Featured Events (all events | post your event)

• Apr 11 — OpenText Content Day New York
• Apr 11 – (Webinar) Creating Great Mobile Websites, Quickly
• Apr 12 — (Webinar) Building Rich Web Experiences with Open Source
• Apr 18 — Forrester's Marketing Leadership Forum Los Angeles
• Apr 26 — (Webinar) Why Enterprise CMS Project Fail — And What You Can Do About It

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post your job)

• Project Manager in Seoul at SDL
• ScrumMaster in Auckland at SilverStripe
• Senior Online Content Manager in Georgia at Digital Sherpa
• Interactive Project Manager in NewYork at Bridgeline Digital
• IS Business Analyst in Ohio at Hyland

HTC One series phone owners can get 25GB of free Dropbox storage space for two years after they sign up or log in to HTC Sense-integrated Dropbox. Other mobile device users quickly figured out how to game the system and score free storage.

If you think SharePoint deployments are already extensive, then they’re about to get even more so. Colligo has announced that its document management and email management products for SharePoint are now available through GMP on the General Services Administration (GSA) contract Schedule 70.

In the GRC space this week, the big news has to be that Google is offering cheap e-Discovery with its Google Apps. However, there are more nuggets in Lockpath’s survey of risk, while a number of GRC acquisitions this week are worth noting.

This week Info-Tech continues its analysis of the enterprise content management market and finds that mobile and mobility is disrupting the entire market, Perceptive takes its cloud offerings international, HarePoint offers new SharePoint workflow extensions, and BPS takes its Capture to the cloud.

Document collaboration solutions provider Nitro plans to expand its cloud engineering team to fuel product innovation.

Perceptive has been busy again. Already this month it has added federated search, text through the ISYS acquisition, document imaging through the Nolij acquisition and integration with Microsoft Dynamics AX. Now it has expanded its cloud offerings internationally.

SAP returns. Or rather KnowledgeLake, SharePoint, MPS and SAP return and get it together to make it easier for users to get to their content. This is the second time this week that SAP has added functionality to ECM for SAP. The first time was about adding CRM; this time, it's about gaining access to documents stored in SharePoint from SAP.

As technology evolves, the amount of data being generated across industry is growing exponentially. The introduction of cloud-based applications and rapid rise of smart mobile devices has added complexity to this, opening up a raft of challenges for businesses around storing, managing and using information in real time both today and in the future.