Document Management, Document Management Software

Seems like everyone is working to advance workflow these days. SpringCM is no exception.

A leader in on-demand document management and workflow, they've released SpringCM 4.0, which offers Advanced Workflow and business process management (BPM) capabilities.

The trend back to bigger families appears to be making its way into the enterprise software industry as IBM announces two additions and a strategic enhancement to its already impressive collection of enterprise content management gear.

Alan Pelz-Sharpe, CMS Watch's leading enterprise content management analyst, recently spoke of the SaaS ECM Dilemma.

To quote, “I have no problem telling buyers that SaaS may be worth considering, but actually going as far as recommending they pursue a SaaS option is still something of a stretch for me.”

For all the small and mid-sized businesses that are agonizing over which document management system to purchase, Cabinet NG might have just given themselves the winning edge. A document management and workflow solution for small businesses, Cabinet NG announces the immediate availability of a new technology that transparently integrates Cabinet NG’s document management system with almost any other Windows-based business application.

Hey it's only Tuesday and lo, it's been quite the week for records management news. Today is Meridio's turn. This multi-national provider of integrated enterprise documents and records management (eDRM) systems for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange platforms, have updated their core enterprise offering. Meridio 5.0 SR1 is a feature and usability update based on early user feedback.

Iron Mountain have been making some notable noise recently about evolving their tape-storage business into other, more dynamic content management and records management services. Just to let us know they're serious about their new direction, they've gone and snapped up leading hospital records management firm RMS Services USA Ltd., for an undisclosed amount.

Amazon has just published a white paper about its latest project Dynamo, which focuses on distributed storage.

Dynamo isn't an operating system; rather, it works on a series of hundreds of commodity PCs running Linux, all hooked up to an internal network. And while the company has no plans to sell the service to the public, Dynamo plays an integral role in a number of Amazon's existing offerings, including its shopping cart, product catalog and S3 — Amazon's online web app storage solution.

It's that time of year again. The researchers at Gartner retreat into seclusion at their hidden compound and combine the secret ingredients needed to create the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management. Some people rub their hands, some shake their heads, and some scoff.

The answer is buyer's remorse. The question is: what was the emotion felt by the senior leadership of all the organizations that invested in Hummingbird Enterprise just before their subsequent acquisition by ECM behemoth Open Text?

While most acquisition stories end with the acquiree going away never to be heard from again, this tale continues to have a happy ending for Hummingbird Enterprise customers.

ZyLAB, a developer of information access solutions for the last 20 years, is announcing that it has finalized a technology partnership with Google that helps users search for and access public archives of information stored within secure ZyIMAGE XML repositories.

In plain English, this means pages upon pages of information that once resided outside of Google’s purview are now searchable for the everyday Googler. How did this come about?

Microsoft just can't get any peace. With Google Apps eroding the need to own a copy of Microsoft Office, and Zoho improving where Apps leaves off, the Word/Excel monopoly may be fast seeing sundown.

And the end may be sooner than expected, now that Adobe's announced it's going to purchase Virtual Ubiquity, the company that produces an offering called Buzzword.

Knowing is half the battle. Never have those words been so true as in today's enterprise content management realm. By now, most sizable organizations know that they need an enterprise CMS solution and many have already implemented one. However, as the saying implies, there's another half of the battle to be won.

This is the third and final article in our series on migrating content from a previous version of Vignette to Vignette V7. The first article in the series painted the broad overview and in the last article we talked in detail about the Content Analysis part of the process. Now, we continue by digging into the final planning phase: Defining the Migration Approach.

In an effort to make amends for the 5 year development cycle that delayed SQL Server 2005, Microsoft will make the next generation of its flagship database product available on schedule and after only 3, er, short years.

v5.1 of Open Text's Livelink ECM - Vendor Invoice Management (for use with SAP offerings) now includes out-of-box reporting and analytics.

The souped-up solution boasts 35 new best-practice workflows for exceptions related specifically to invoicing (missing goods receipts, incorrect pricing or tax, etc).

Other enhancements include upgraded Vendor Self Service Portal capabilities and fresh diagnostic tools for faster configuration and deployment.

When we left off from part one in this series, we mentioned that there are four steps involved in the content life cycle migration process — analyzing the content, deciding on a migration approach, the actual migration and post-migration processing. Here in part two, we go into detail on the Content Analysis step.

Like other technology companies known to “acquire and forget,” Salesforce.com needed five months to provide details for its SaaS-based entrance into the content management market, a foray originally announced back in April.

Enterprise document management firm ColumbiaSoft is rolling out a series of collaboration tools fitted especially for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms.

Whether it be during preliminary discussions with a potential client or in the lines of a request-for-proposal, the question is coming up exceedingly more often:

“How does your proposed solution integrate with SharePoint?”

Been looking for that quick and easy bridge to take you from a PDF to an InDesign document? Lucky for you, Recosoft Corporation — the folks who brought you the PDF2Office family of products — is shipping PDF2ID v1.0 for Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3.