Document Management Roll-up: Hyland Takes SaaS OnBase Worldwide, Office for Mac Goes to RTM

By David Roe (@druadh20) Sep 14, 2010

Back in the full swing of things this week with Hyland Software outlining its plans to take OnBase worldwide and Office 2011 for Mac finally going to RTM. Xerox has also launched its rebranding campaign, while PSIGEN extends the reach of its document capture software.

Office 2011 for Mac RTM

We gave the release of Office 2010 a big hooray when it finally launched last May so it’s only fair that we do the same with Office 2011 for Mac. Last Friday it finally went to RTM. This means it’s signed off on final testing and the product is officially getting sent on its way to production and to customers.

The trip started over 2 ½ years ago and what a long, strange trip it’s been! The principal goal was to deliver major improvements requested by users as well as some new stuff they were dreaming up, particularly around performance and responsiveness.

So what’s the buzz? Well according to the Mactopia blog last week, they’ve added Outlook for Mac, made big changes in team collaboration including everywhere access, full co-authoring and new connections to Microsoft (news, site) services such as the Office Web Apps, SharePoint and SkyDrive.

There’s a lot more, but also some things that were promised that they admit in a video that accompanies the RTM that they can’t bring in this version. If you want to follow up on this you can view the video below — but please don’t blame us, we definitely didn’t make this one !

Hyland Takes OnBase International

Hyland (news, site) is keeping true to its promise that it was going to take the SaaS version of its ECM and document management software OnBase everywhere a little over a year ago.

In a statement issued by the Ohio-based company in the last few days, it promises that by 2011 OnBase Online will be available on all five continents with data centers to support this ambition everywhere too.

However, this is not just a shot in the dark, Hyland says. The popularity and growing acceptance of SaaS was proven, the company says, after it opened its data center in the UK in July 2009 with 100 customers being serviced in this one location already.

To meet the growing international demand for OnBase OnLine, Hyland opened a data center in Australia in late August 2010.

And now this. More expansion is planned with the opening of a new data center this month in the Netherlands, while in 2011 the company will add two more locations, one in Asia and the other in South America.