Document Management, Document Management Software

File sharing service YouSendIt has expanded its roster of duties by purchasing Found, a system for enabling file search across devices and clouds.

It’s been in the air for a while, but it looks like now its set in stone. Open source document management vendor Alfresco is going for an IPO in the US and has appointed a new CEO — former SuccessFactors boss Doug Dennerline to replace Alfresco founder and current CEO, John Powell, who will help the new CEO transition the company and then take a seat on the board in some kind of operational capacity.

A US $10,000 partial refund has been offered to a Box customer after the company failed to set up its file sharing system due to the customer's own firewall incompatibility. 

From cavemen to mobile road warriors, what is different — and surprisingly the same — about how people have used technology to share information securely throughout history?

Storage solution company Nexsan has been acquired by the Imation Corporation, a storage and data security company with the goal of improving Imation's operating margins for data storage and security solutions.

In this week’s Mobile App of the Week, we look at the recently released Android app version of Bitcasa, a cloud storage application.

 There were indications at Alfresco’s Devcon in November that it was starting to get cozy with Amazon Web Services. This week, they finally come out and said it — Alfresco is now in the Amazon cloud.

Cloud storage mover and shaker Dropbox has bought fellow Y Combinator alum Snapjoy, a photo viewing app that lets people consolidate and view photos from around the Web or stashed away on various devices and memory cards.

It’s Christmas so a lot of people will be expecting iPads, even if it’s only one of the older versions. While that’s all well and good, what will really make this Christmas special are the apps that go with it. One of the biggest problems to date has been the inability to use Office and Office documents on the iPad. This week however, Google has announced that it will be making Office users’ Christmas dreams come true with iPad access.

Nuxeo has unveiled Nuxeo Studio 2.9, an updated version of its application and solution software development tool.

The holiday season may be fast approaching but it doesn't seem to be having much effect in the document management space.  Among this week’s highlights — the release of IBM’s productivity suite, Microsoft finally releases Office 2013 to the business community, Perceptive releases new Outlook app, Snowbound offers right to left functionality for documents and Accusoft upgrades its ImagXpress application.

It may be just a coincidence, but probably not. The very week IBM decides to launch its new Cloud Docs productivity suite, Microsoft decides to make the new version of Office 2013 available to business users.

As we near the end of 2012, it seems like the perfect time to rehash one of the big themes that has pre-occupied enterprises over the past 12 months — content security. Forrester's Wave Report takes it one step further — taking an in-depth look at the area of security that enterprises really need to take note of. 

This week was a quiet one — with the Thanksgiving Weekend and the US only slowly waking up. That said, there are a few things to announce in the document management space — Google enabled super-sized Gmail attachments, Cabinet released an iPad app, Quest just announced a new version of MessageStats, and OpenText made Autonomy customers an offer.

It’s time for the Mobile App of the Week. This week our focus is on Accellion for Android, a file management and file sharing application.

CodeTwo has launched what it calls a “new kind” of file sharing. In the updated version 5 of its Public Folders product, users can share Outlook items and any Windows-based file across a local network or through the Net, without the use of external servers.

This week, even with the Thanksgiving Weekend, there are still a few notable releases, particularly in the mobile space. EMC, for example, offers workers the possibility of making their presentations mobile, while Alfresco upgrades its iOS app. Also this week, Microsoft is offering a free trial of Office 2013 Professional Pro, while docStar upgrades Eclipse.

 You just couldn’t make this up. HP, formerly one of the New York Stock Exchange’s darlings and until recent times often mentioned in the same breath as IBM, could be set to call in the cops over the acquisition of Autonomy 18 months ago. According to CEO Meg Whitman, someone had been cooking the books before the deal was inked.

Let’s face it, no matter how you slice it, SharePoint has been a big success: for Microsoft (78 percent of enterprises currently running SharePoint according to AIIM), for end users (finally some technology they could relate to), and for the enterprise content management (ECM) community (at last, people were somewhat excited about what we do for a living). 

A variety of IT vendors debuted add-on solutions that bring functionality including mobile, cloud and collaboration features to SharePoint at last week’s SharePoint Conference held in Las Vegas, NV. Solution providers making noteworthy announcements included Workshare, Colligo, Nintex and Axceler.