Document Management, Document Management Software

We have seen in the past that there are a lot of different elements to a good records management system. We have also seen email management is still causing enterprises major headaches. RP Post has released an app for Box that will make it easier to trace and follow email content, and catch any legal content in the emails that needs to be kept.

There’s no doubt that predictive coding is the next big thing in e-Discovery. While predictive coding aims to code, organize, and prioritize entire sets of electronically stored information (ESI) according to their relation to discovery responsiveness, privilege and designated issues before and during the legal discovery process, many e-Discovery vendors have been working hard to offer products and service that offer predictive analytical solutions.

Swedish IT security risk management company Cryptzone Group said a recent survey showed almost one in three (30%) Microsoft SharePoint users have disregarded its security measures and admitted to copying and distributing sensitive or confidential documents through non-secure means. The group further comments that, remarkably, of the 92% of respondents who understood the risk, 13% believe that protecting company data is not their responsibility.

IBM is like a weather vane; it points the way the wind is blowing, at least in information management. For that reason, its financial results are important. Q4 results released late last night, showing an increase of revenues by 2% to US$ 29.5 billion, are no exception, especially when its CFO Mark Loughbirdge indicated that 2012 looks like it will produce a Big Blue buying spree, just like 2010.

The latest SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Update from Microsoft came with a surprise for iPad users: Select mobile business Intelligence reports and scorecards can now be viewed via the Safari Browser running Apple iOS 5.

It’s not every day that you get to meet with the Former Director of Modern Records at National Archives and Records Administration. But when you do, the topic of discussion is bound to drift toward the Federal Mandate for Electronic Records Management.

If you’re a heavy SharePoint user, you will know that it can be used on-premise, online and in hybrid deployments. Managing one type of deployment is difficult enough, but three? AvePoint 6 — or, officially, DocAve 6, which has gone on general release today — aims to help enterprises overcome that by pulling the management of SharePoint into one space.

Social software provider NewsGator and Vizit, a social collaboration solution provider for SharePoint, announced that they've integrated their software to improve viewing, commenting and conversation abilities for SharePoint users.

This week in the GRC space, IBM released its identity intelligence software, Symantec had a busy week with the acquisition of LiveOffice and its rethink of intelligent information governance, CMSWire’s contributors visited the governance space, particularly around website governance and Qualtrax upgraded to v4.3.

The Real Story Group published its annual report on the enterprise content management industry last week. We talked to Real Story Group (RSG) Principal Alan Pelz-Sharpe, who outlined some of the main findings and who argues that the industry has already passed a turning point which will result in some established and newer trends gaining ground in the year to come.

Even if you aren’t an Apple fan, you have to admit the iPad is lust-worthy. Since its introduction in early 2010, consumer adoption of the device has exploded. Now, iPad use is growing in the enterprise. Apple’s iPad is lightweight, easy to use and snappy, making it almost the perfect enterprise mobility device — almost.

This week we tour DAM systems from Mesopotamia up through modern efforts to give us back control of our digital assets.

It’s been a mixed bag this week. Amazon has released an application that lets users send documents to Kindle, the CloudOn app enables users to create and edit Office documents on iPad, SAP expands in the education market, PSIGEN pushes into Asia Pacific while Due Diligence extends the scope of V-Rooms.

The story of one business’s unexpected transition to an enterprise document management system

You wouldn’t feel too lucky if your business was hit by a hurricane. Particularly if all of your paperwork — invoices, P.O.s, personnel records, receipts, everything — was all just paper, subjected to the worst flooding in 83 years. But that was the unfortunate plight of one particular US$ 16 million transportation dealer this summer in the wake of Hurricane Irene.

So we've told you about the latest version of IBM Connections, unveiled at Lotusphere 2012 this morning. But that's not all IBM announced. We also saw a new socially enabled enterprise content management solution and a brand new cloud-based productivity suite.

Amazon has released a handy new feature that allows Windows users to send any document to their Kindle with a single click. If you happen to use another operating system — tough luck.

Alfresco has taken another step towards making document management truly mobile with the release of its Alfresco Mobile 1.2 app built around an integration with QuickOffice and available for iPads and iPhones through the App Store.

Adobe keeps pushing Reader, making it more attractive and secure for business users. This week alone, it has addressed some of the security issues around PDFs as well as extending the functionality of EchoSign so that users will be able to receive and send documents for electronic signature within the application itself.

If anyone doubted that there was money in the cloud, then the end-of-year wrap from Box might dispel it. According to CEO Aaron Levie, over the last year alone, its revenues doubled, staff numbers has more than doubled, and it has doubled its customer base to more than 8 million users.

It’s been a slow start to the year in GRC, but it looks like one where e-Discovery is going to play a major role, at least according to Nuix. Axceler and MetricStream have both entered partnerships with Jornata and Qualys, while EntropySoft has released a new connector with ZyLab for better e-Discovery.