Document Management, Document Management Software

Following the acquisitiong of Artesia last summer, Open Text announces the first release of Artesia's Digital Asset Management (DAM) software under the new brand.

Artesia for Digital Asset Management v6.0 provides sophisticated new security features and is built on a services oriented architecture (SOA). Open Text announced the news at the Gilbane Content Management Conference.

Two webcasts explore the impact of 'Smarter Document Management'.

Xerox's “smarter document management” strategies employ a range of document technologies, software and consulting services to help customers reduce costs, streamline operations, and simplify how they work with information and documents.

The first session is today at 14:00 Eastern Time, with the second following on Dec 16th.

IBM has announced a series of new products aimed at making it easier for organizations to manage and comply with today's various international regulations and industry standards.

The new offerings address a wide range of compliance requirements driven by regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act, USA Patriot Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Vignette today announced its inclusion in the leader quadrant for Gartner Inc.'s 2004 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Magic Quadrant.

This listing follows Vignette's recent positioning in Gartner's leader quadrant of the 2004 Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products.

The report evaluates 22 ECM vendors that offer Document Management as a foundation.

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Microsoft has released the SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit, the definitive resource for administering, customizing, and othewise rendering useful SharePoint products (SPS and WSS).

Mobius Management Systems, Inc., a leading content management vendor, today announced ViewDirect RM for SharePoint 4.6.

ViewDirect RM for SharePoint is a complete records management solution for of Microsoft SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services and is based on technologies gained in Mobius' eManage acquisition, in April of this year.

The latest release enables organizations to index, link, store, search, access and manage records stored in SharePoint over the complete lifecycle, and destroy them in a timely manner, thus enabling compliance with regulatory requirements and corporate retention and disposition policies.

These capabilities are achieved through a “touchless” approach that allows ViewDirect RM to manage the record lifecycle while the records remain in the SharePoint SQL repository.

CommVault Systems, a provider of data management solutions, has announced that CommVault Galaxy backup and recovery software, part of the CommVault QiNetix suite, will provide enhanced data management services for SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services' sites.

A key part of the solution is the ability for customers to perform individual, point-in-time document recovery.

INSCI Corp, a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, today announced its Channel Marketing Solution.

The solution, available as installed software or via INSCI hosted services (ASP), enables companies to accelerate their global channel marketing programs; reduce or eliminate marketing distribution costs; increase visibility and market share through each distributor; and improve productivity through the intelligent reuse of content for campaigns worldwide.

Stellent, a leading provider of content management solutions, recently announced its Records Management solution has received U.S. DoD 5015.2 - STD Chapter 4 certification for the management of classified records.

The certification verifies that Stellent's product complies with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 - STD Chapter 4, which is essential for any federal government organization that manages classified records or documents.

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Today, customers using SharePoint Products and Technologies began applying two new Service Pack 1 (SP1) releases, which provide performance improvements for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services.

In today's global environment, there are many competitive pressures driving law firms, big and small, to incorporate new technologies that will help increase the productivity of fee earners and improve efficiencies within the firm. Additionally, mergers and geographically distributed offices have put significant pressures on law firms to efficiently manage critical assets.

Interwoven has gained traction in this market and just yesterday Hummingbird announced it is extending the Hummingbird Enterprise product with several new customer-driven enhancements for the legal industry.

In the flurry of recent records management announcements, we now add Vignette to the role call. Announced late yesterday is the Vignette Records & Documents product, providing a platform that delivers compliance, risk management and business automation within a single framework. The framework handles capture, management and delivery.

The Records & Documents product leverages technologies from the recent TOWER Technology acquisition.

Just shortly after Interwoven announced a Records Management acquisition, FileNet has announced the general availability of their Records Manager suite.

FileNet Records Manager is built upon FileNet’s Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Content Management technology, which facilitates records management by supporting the strict lifecycle requirements for corporate documents.

The Records Manager product was originally announced in mid July 2004.

Interwoven, Inc., an enterprise content management (ECM) company, today announced the acquisition of the assets of Software Intelligence, Inc., a leading provider of records management (RM) systems.

Software Intelligence's comprehensive RM product will be renamed Interwoven Records Manager, and will enable companies to manage paper documents, electronic documents and e-mail under a single unified records system. Interwoven purchased the assets of Software Intelligence for approximately $2 million in cash and stock.

Enterprise Content Management vendor Open Text has announced it will acquire privately owned Digital Asset Management (DAM) vendor, Artesia Technologies of Rockville, MD.

The acquisition is an important step towards helping customers better integrate and manage all types of media for improved content management and collaboration. Close of the transaction is imminent.

“Rich media makes up a large and increasing portion of the intellectual capital of world-leading businesses,” said Tom Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of Open Text. “Combined with Open Text solutions, Artesia Technologies will help enhance the comprehensive solutions we offer to companies challenged by next-level compliance requirements in many industries.

Interwoven, Kofax, the world's largest information capture vendor, and BCS Systems, leading systems integration specialist, today announced the companies have teamed together to offer an integrated enterprise information capture and collaborative document management solution to customers worldwide.

The system will dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of capturing and organizing mission critical business information.

Documentum is listed as a leader in META Group's recently released METAspectrum report. The METAspectrum report is an evaluation of web content management (WCM) solutions in the North American marketplace.

META Group recognized EMC's Web Content Management products for performance, market presence, and breadth of functionality.

eMason today introduced its IWorkS (Image Workflow System), the first application that incorporates business intelligence with document management, allowing integration with a company's business process automation infrastructure.

“The IWorkS system enables companies to automate and direct the flow of their documents, in synchronization with their established business rules and processes,” said Jane Mason, president, eMason.

Recent joint study by AIIM and Kahn Consulting indicates Enterprise Content Management (ECM) compliance is underway, but heavily burdened by new requirements and a lack of executive-level involvement.

Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPPA are the driving forces with 37% of those surveyed focused on the former and 26% on the latter.