Document Management, Document Management Software

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.

Tired of sifting through endless piles of paper documents, but the budget for a full featured document management system is still waiting for approval?

If the answer is yes, Ademero hopes to ease your pain with its new Content Central Workgroup Edition (CCWE).

Today ABBYY announced the release of FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional. The offering is a dynamic data capture solution for especially accurate automated document processing.

v8.0 makes use of an algorithm that enables it to auto-process multiple types of documents from a single point of entry or stream. These include paper documents, like tests or insurance forms; and documents of any structure — semi-structured, unstructured, structured or a combination — including invoices, contracts, and articles.

No manual data entry or pre-ordering is needed. A series of pre-set definitions enables FlexiCapture to process each item appropriately.

The system is particularly handy for document or records management. Check out FlexiCapture 8.0 at the ABBYY website.

As we previously covered this past April Google's been working away on a PowerPoint killer, which as of today has been launched.

Even if its not actually much of a PowerPoint killer yet, there are some spiffy aspects to it — namely the Audience feature, Revisions and Sharing for starters. And as the feature set builds-out to cover for things like the total absence of any drawing capabilities, it will surely and incrementally sport away some of the MS Office faithful.

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If you have ever wondered how all the information in those tiny boxes on official forms eventually makes their way into a database, the answer is a combination of a high-quality scanner, and a top-of-the-line optical character recognition (OCR) software package.

Meet Fortis Email Management, a solution that allows simpler Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes archiving. It plays nicely with one or the other, and permits the capture and archive of e-docs to Fortis' document management software.

Brought to you by Fortis Document Management Software Teams (courtesy of Westbrook), in conjunction with Sherpa Software.

Who'd've figured French Enterprise CMS geeks were Elvis fans? Whether intentional or not, Nuxeo pays tribute to the King's hometown with the release of the newest version of their flagship product — Nuxeo 5.1, codenamed Memphis.

EditGrid, a leader in online spreadsheets, today announced the launch of the iPhone Edition of its Web-based spreadsheets software. The news broke this morning at the Office. 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

The concept of the paperless office, long on vision but short on actuality, may be one step closer to reality with the release of SMARTi Enterprise version 3.1.7.

Struts…Tapestry…Seam, these are all fully featured, open source and very active Java Web app frameworks. And all were available to the Alfresco Enterprise CMS architects when they played deciders for their recent 2.1 release.

Why then did they choose to go “back to basics” with a Servlets+JSP approach which leverages the lesser known URI Templates specification when implementing their new Web Scripts functionality?

Microsoft has released software developer kits (SDKs) for SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services, which contain conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to aid in the development of solutions based on the SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 platforms.

Do enterprise architects really need to be reminded that they should “do their homework” before choosing an enterprise productivity, collaboration and content management application? When considering Google Apps as an enterprise-wide option, the surrounding fog of hype certainly seems to warrant a “yes”. And The Burton Group, a research and consulting firm, has just served the official version of it.