Document Management, Document Management Software

With a nip here and a tuck there, Dropbox rolled out a streamlined, cleaner design.

During all the hoopla around the Office 365 release, Microsoft promised that everyone would be able to do everything with it, including the government. Then everything went quiet. We didn’t hear much about the government, Microsoft, the cloud and Office 365, until a recent blog post indicated that Microsoft hadn’t forgotten and was getting something ready for government use.

There were a number of interesting announcements this week including the release of CNG-SAFE v7.5, Lexmark’s addition of new Enterprise CMS functionality through the acquisition of Brainware, OpenText offered Tempo on general release, while Adobe upgraded printing functionality. Meanwhile, Webhostforasp.net offered new SharePoint hosting services.

Metalogix said it will purchase Syntergy and integrate its suite of products, including its popular Replicator web platform, into Metalogix' SharePoint content life cycle management solutions portfolio. Syntergy will continue to operate "independently," keeping its Open Text /LiveLink business but Replicator for SharePoint will become part of Metalogix.

As we enter a new Bring Your Own Device era, the line between personal and corporate data is becoming more blurred. With more consumers becoming more proactive about protecting their information across social media and mobile devices and becoming more in tune to how their information is being protected (or not), we at CMSWire were curious how consumers' own data retention behaviors are affecting how companies manage data.

This week in the GRC space, Symantec upgrades its offerings for mobile security, EMC announced that it is moving into the security space, Agiliance adds new connectors, SAS offers Big Data access using Hadoop and Centrix upgrades workspace.

YouSendIt launches Workstream, an enterprise content collaboration solution. With the Workstream SharePoint plug-in, users can share files with external partners.

Last November OpenText announced that it was releasing Tempo, a solution that promised to make document sharing quicker and mobile, while synchronizing data across computers and devices. That is now on general release and was also accompanied by the release of a new Tempo Express Edition.

I’m a big fan of People Who Share and Fabian Williams is one of them, which is why I was so excited to meet him at the Office 365 event in Redmond this past weekend. He delivered. 

Mr. Williams gave a talk on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to migrate enterprise data into the cloud.

If you are a current user of Microsoft's Azure, the infrastructure and software as a service cloud technology, you already know of the worldwide outage that occurred for over eight hours on the Windows Azure Service Management Component. The glitch that brought the system down began at 1:45 a.m. (GMT) on Leap Year Day, and some have speculated this may be at least part of the cause.

KMWorld shared its latest picks for the 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.

This week it was always going to be about the RSA 2012 Conference that finishes on Friday coming. There’s a whole pile of releases, some of which we will look at this week, some next week. The most notable intervention so far has been from RSA’s Art Coviello, who says the security industry is going through hell. Meanwhile, Salesforce gets Symantec’s single sign-in, while RSA promises mobile security.

EntropySoft has taken a step further to easing the deployment of hybrid IT environments for enterprises. This time, it has announced that it has made its SharePoint connector and Exchange connector compatible with Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud suite.

It wasn't quite like Apple buying NeXT computer to get Steve Jobs to come back to the company, but Dropbox said it will buy Cove, a Silicon Valley collaboration startup, in part for the strong leadership it can bring to the cloud-based data storage company. The move brings two former Facebook icons, Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi (director of engineering and principal product manager respectively), to join the Dropbox management team.

This week, the web was buzzing with rumors about an iPad version of Office, which Microsoft quickly denied, Alfresco and Jive release a connector for socialized content, Treeno released v4.0 of its enterprise content management system, Varonis joins McAfee partner program, while Cintas and ScanMd get together for medical documents.

This week, the DAM Lowdown looks at Extensis Portfolio Server 10.2, ADAM Software's tool for integration with Adobe Creative Suite, digital asset management for the athletics industry and a DAM Conference in New York.

In March last year, Alfresco and Jive announced they were getting together to bring content management and social business software together. Today, they have announced the release of Jive Connector for Alfresco that enables cross-platform publishing between the two.

With the promise of improved efficiencies and compelling price, Treeno Software announced its v.4.0 document management system that includes a new look-and-feel user interface to help reduce training, lower cost of operations and improve overall productivity.

Some miracles take longer than others, and HP looks like it might be one of the long ones. After her first quarter as CEO, Meg Whitman gave her first earnings results yesterday, and it looks like HP will need a miracle to get it back to where it once was.

With SharePoint firmly established in the enterprise, and companies looking to deploy an enterprise content management system across the company, many businesses are being forced to answer the question as to whether they should replace their enterprise CMS with SharePoint, or integrate the two.