Document Management, Document Management Software

In the last few years, the nature of content in the workplace, and therefore enterprise content management, has transformed in several powerful and important ways. 

It’s time for the Mobile App of the Week. This week we are concentrating on the Android version of eFax, the fax and document management app from J2 Global Inc.

Microsoft shows off Office for Windows Phone 8, Hyland Software announces a new app for Windows 8, and then announces an entire new subsidiary in the UK, while Google makes Docs, Sheets and Slides available for Chromebook. Busy times in the document management industry.

Microsoft isn't the only company making an announcement surrounding the newest version their Windows Operating System. Box has also announced that they have designed a new version of their file managing app — specifically for Windows 8.

There were many issues addressed this afternoon at Nuxeo World around the release of v5.6, Nuxeo World, which is currently under way in Paris, gave many their first real look at some of the highlights, including the Content Routing feature.

Brendan Coveney is a funny man. He’s also head of Americas and Asia/Pacific for Nuxeo.  At last year’s Nuxeo World he gave an entertaining and insightful – seems the two can go together – analysis of content optimization. This year at NuxeoWorld he took on the no less stimulating top of the Power of the Platform for building apps, nudist beaches, and the features a great platform should have.

There has been anecdotal evidence across the industry about the growth of Nuxeo in Europe since it opened its doors in 2000, and more recently in the US where it set up in 2009. As with many companies it’s hard to nail this down with figures — but the opening address by Nuxeo CEO Eric Barroca at this week's Nuxeo World 2012 in Paris gave us some idea of what's happening behind the scenes.

There have been a few notable announcements this week in the document management space. Office Web Apps 2013 is now available in SkyDrive, Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for ECM for 2012 has been released, and Nuxeo is holding its annual conference. In addition, Concept Searching has announced that its conceptClassifier for SharePoint is available for Office 365.

It's time for the Mobile App of the Week and this week our focus is on Box.net's Android app. Box's cloud-based file sharing and document collaboration platform allows users to view, share and collaborate on files from wherever they are.

This week in the document management world, Alfresco is back in the news with the announcement of a new integration by Ixxus to add Solr faceted search to Alfresco 4, Hyland is making its OnBase application more readily accessible through mobile devices, Lexmark rebrands Brainware and SealPath secures documents in the cloud.

Accellion is updating its mobile file sharing solution. The Palo Alto, California-based company is enhancing its offering to increase ease-of-use and flexibility, and to provide more security controls. 

While the upgrade to Xerox’s document review platform is interesting from a functionality point of view, it's even more interesting from an industry perspective because it shows the company's ongoing commitment to extending and building its document management capabilities.
 

 Microsoft announced that Office 2013  has hit the Release to Manufacturing milestone, which sets the company up for an upgrade smorgasbord. Will users look to upgrade their whole PC, their OS, or their Office applications in the coming months, or all three? 

We haven’t heard much lately from Alfresco about its community edition, but this week that’s all changed. It has just released v4.2 of the Community Edition, the first since v4.0, which comes with a whole pile of improvements including better Google Docs integration.

Aaron Levie is on a mission. The Box co-founder and CEO has a dream: he wants workers everywhere to have hassle-free access to the documents and other content they need to do great work from anywhere, at any time, using any computer or mobile device.  

Document sharing service Dropbox is improving the photo viewing experience for mobile phone browsers.

Information management solutions vendor MetaVis Technologies is making no bones about who is the target demographic for its new Information Manager Power User Edition. The tool is designed to allow SharePoint “power users” to migrate and classify data created and stored in SharePoint (including SharePoint 2013) and Office365.

Box unveiled what it calls a “bigger, better, all-new Box experience” at its BoxWorks conference in San Francisco, and the experience includes some social media features.

It may have been a holiday weekend, but it’s still busy in the document management world. Google has just released GSA 7.0, which makes document search and retrieval a lot easier, WatchDox has released a SharePoint application, Perceptive is offering an e-signing tool, and Central Desktop has introduced single sign-in.

The Google Search Appliance (GSA), first introduced ten years ago, is getting upgraded. Version 7.0 from the search giant provides new capabilities for employees to find what they need inside an enterprise.