Document Management, Document Management Software

Dropbox announced it is going a bit deeper in its Facebook integration by adding a file sharing button inside Facebook Groups.

It's a busy time in the document management world. The Microsoft Exchange Conference returns after 10 years as Microsoft gears up for the new Office 2013 release, HP uses Autonomy’s IDOL for information governance, AvePoint offers governance in SharePoint, FileTrail extends SharePoint’s records management, and Alfresco releases a new synching tool for enterprises.

What do sales people gripe about? Aside from the crappy economy, customers who won’t make decisions, and lousy commissions; there’s managing and getting action on the overload of documents and approvals involved in a typical sales cycle.

 Among Salesforce's many announcements at Dreamforce comes Chatterbox, a Chatter product extension taking direct aim at Dropbox and other cloud storage and collaboration services.

While you can have many identities across the personal web and the consumer cloud, for business it is logical to have one "enterprise-class" ID across all services. Salesforce is now offering just that to bring order and trust to online identification. 

This week, two months after unveiling the Preview of Office 2013, Microsoft has finally announced how much it will cost, KnowledgeTree takes a look at email as a collaboration tool, Alfresco releases a new syncing application, and M-Files tells us more about M-File 9.0.

The collaboration space is getting a lot more intense. More products, more competitors, all jostling to get ahead of the other. This week Box announced it will boost the speed of its upload abilities and with this, hopes to gain a competitive edge over Google Drive and Dropbox.

Bait me and I’ll bite. Say the word “surprise” and I’ll want to know what it is, immediately. Give me a reason to believe that something unexpected might happen, and I’m going to dig. It’s my nature. I’m a headhunter and a journalist, research and curiosity are in my blood.

Enough said. 

With the release of its new enterprise syncing technology Alfresco has shown again an ability to respond to the changing Enterprise CMS landscape in a way that many other vendors are finding difficult to do. With this new enterprise tool, users of Alfresco Enterprise CMS and its cloud services will be able to keep all their content synced.

The File Sharing Wars
There's a war brewing over file sharing in the enterprise. Box may think it has it made, but Salesforce, EMC — even Alfresco — have other plans. At Dreamforce in San Francisco next week Salesforce will put some cards on the table. But the games are just beginning. Stay tuned.

Monitoring Social Media
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Re-inventing Communications
Email is dead. But that's not the point. The point is that how we communicate is changing — with our customers, employees and our partners. Social business may sound like a fuzzy word, but ignore it and you may be setting your business up for failure.

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Now that Labor Day weekend is over, companies are shifting into high gear to prepare for the holiday push. Among the document management products being released in the next two weeks the general release of M-Files v9.0 and something new from Alfresco. This past week, Google Drive editing capabilities for iOS were upgraded, while enterprise content management looks set to grow in the EMEA region.

In the information management world, only Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff can better Oracle CEO Larry Ellison for pithy put-downs. At a panel discussion at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco this week, it looks like the put-downs will be more than just verbal. He admitted that at Dreamforce  next week,  Salesforce is readying applications to compete with Box, Okta and Asana.

Every week there seems to be a new cloud-based file sharing option launching.  At some point, as the market matures some vendors will take a bow and others will join forces to create new, more comprehensive offerings. SkyDox and Workshare must have gotten the memo early. The pair announced today that they are joining forces.

Google is expanding the functionality of its cloud-based Drive document management service for iOS and Android users. Starting today, users of the iOS Drive app will have the same document-editing ability that users of the Android Drive app already possess.

Gmail users can now interact directly with Microsoft’s SkyDrive, thanks to a collaboration between Microsoft and Attachments.me.

It's quiet in the wake of Labor Day, but document automation vendor Eclipse isn't resting as it moves to Silver level membership of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN).

It may have been Labor Day week, but still a few interesting items to note in the document management world. Kodak has just announced the release of a capture solution built on SharePoint, OpenText targets Tempo Express at legal industry, Lexmark points to a new hardware strategy and the Document Foundation joins OASIS.

Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the Tweet Jam about SharePoint. One of the topics that came up was the importance of Governance. In this article I want to dive deeper into this topic and stress how important governance is within your environment. 

 OpenText is one of a number of enterprise information management companies that has led the charge on providing content management for specific verticals. This week, it focused on the legal industry with the release of OpenText Tempo Express.

Trying to help make reports of the death of email premature, collaborative work platform provider Podio is today unveiling a new feature that connects a user’s email inbox to their workflow. Called Email to Workspace, the feature enables users to send an email from their email inbox to Podio as a task, status update (to the activity stream) or as a new project in an existing Podio app.