Document Management Roll-up: Cloud Computing is Popular, Oracle Adds to SOA Platform

Last week we saw a considerable amount of movement in the document management software industry, not the least of which was the closure of the Xerox –ACS deal. The wheeling-and-dealing continues this week with the acquisition of AmberPoint by Oracle while AIIM and Gartner get back into gear with some research published recently.

Oracle extends Business Transaction Management

With a whole pile of acquisitions announced last week, the announcement by Oracle that it has just acquired AmberPoint looks like this week will be more of the same .

While financial details of the deal have not been released, the acquisition will significantly extend Oracle’s Fusion Middleware SOA Management Solutions and provide its users with more agility and visibility into their business processes.

If you haven’t come across AmberPoint before, its solutions resolve application performance problems and business transactions problems in insurance claims processing or account provisioning where multiple applications need to work together.

With the addition of AmberPoint, Oracle has underlined its commitment to providing end-to-end SOA management and Business Transaction Management solutions.

AIIM for content or records implementation

AIIM is getting back into its stride after a relatively quiet January with the release of a new  “8 ways to … “ eBook. This one should be of interest of to companies that are still trying to decide if they need document management software, or records management software.

Entitled 8 secrets of an effective content or records implementation it takes the discussion of whether a company needs records management software or document management software a step further than our outline of some of the major differences between the two systems last month.

The ebook, which is free to download for registered users from the AIIM website looks at the implementation of either system and includes the following recommendations:

• Build a business strategy and blueprint
• Conduct a technology assessment and create a blueprint
• Think through a governance structure and approach
• Create a roadmap and project plan
• Build a sound foundation by creating an appropriate software development environment
• Design the plan
• Deploy the plan and cycle throughout life cycle
• Include change management

Back In The Clouds

We’re back to cloud computing this week with new research commissioned by cloud email archiving specialist Mimecast. Its Cloud Computing Adoption Survey examines the perception and adoption of cloud computing solutions among 565 respondents responsible for managing their organization's IT operations and budget across the U.S. and Canada in the Fall of 2009.

It shows that while security and integration issues are clearly users' biggest fears about cloud computing, the concerns have not dissuaded companies from implementing cloud-based applications within their corporate infrastructure.

These well-known fears appear to be at odds with reality, as the survey findings suggest strong satisfaction with cloud computing once it is installed.

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Last week we saw a considerable amount of movement in the document management software industry, not the least of which was the closure of the Xerox –ACS deal. The wheeling-and-dealing continues this week with the acquisition of AmberPoint by Oracle while AIIM and Gartner get back into gear with some research published recently.