Document Management Roll-up: IBM’s Quickr Is Extended, CloudPointe Joins On-Premise/Cloud DM

By David Roe (@druadh20) Oct 5, 2010 Comments

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It’s a mixed bag of document management news this week. IBM’s Quickr document collaboration abilities have been extended by DOCVA, Adeptol upgrades its document viewer and Xerox doesn’t look like it’s going to neglect traditional print services despite recent rebranding efforts as a document management heavy weight.

DOCOVA Extends IBM Lotus Quickr

First up this week is news of the release of new content services for IBM's (news, site) Lotus Quickr called DOCOVA Integrated that enables Quickr users to expand the document collaboration element of the platform into a complete document and content management solution.

This integration is especially important for Lotus Domino Document Manager users looking for a Lotus Domino-based migration option as DOCOVA Integrated Content Services gives Quickr users full control over the entire lifecycle of their content and documents through its customizable application framework functionalities.

Some of those functionalities include archive policy management, workflow, records management and paper capture.

Migrating DDM customers can leverage the new DOCOVA Migration Module for a quick, straightforward data and document migration, and may be eligible for no-charge licenses.

DOCOVA Integrated Content Services is compatible with the newly-released Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Lotus Domino.

Adeptol Upgrades Doc Viewer

A few weeks ago you may remember that there was a run on the release of new document viewers. While Adeptol (news, site) may have missed the rush, it has made up for it with this week’s release of v 4.5 of its document viewing platform with a number of upgrades designed to enhance performance.

If you haven’t come across it before, Adeptol Document Viewer is a high speed high fidelity platform allowing users to view more than 300 file formats with no downloads, plug-ins or activeX controls.

Some of the key new features include a built in text extraction engine to extract text from documents, renderer for conversion of documents to pdf, tiff, png and other imaging formats, support for additional file types, fidelity improvements for office documents, enhanced printing capabilities and improved APIs for developers.

Adeptol has also improved its built-in self optimization technology to get the pages directly from the server as they are being rendered and improved the load times by more than 50% over previous versions. The result is very high speed load times for users.

There is also an enhanced API for developers to embed the viewer within their applications easily. The Document Viewer Enterprise Edition is available for download.

CloudPointe Links ECM and Cloud DM

For enterprises that have proprietary systems but are looking at document management features in the cloud, CloudPointe has just announced the release of its CloudPointe software service.

The service provides tools to embed document sharing and collaboration inside any website or web application, including developer integration using the underlying API.

It also offers a storage compatibility layer, allowing for collaboration of documents and files directly from business' existing storage systems, whether on FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, Google Docs or SharePoint.