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the Free CMSWire NewsletterIt may be summer and the middle of what newspapers call the silly season, but there is still a constant trickle of new document management releases. Amongst this week’s highlights are more details on the Mac Office release in October, while Doculex announces the availability of new document management services. Laserfiche and SharePoint also got officially DoD certified.
Localization and Office for Mac 2011
Last week, we were able to tell you that Office for Mac 2011 will be released in October. Like all such releases, details only ever come out like a slow leaking pipe. So today, we’ll revisit it briefly with some more news. The localization team has announced on the Mac Office blog that there will be several more languages available than expected as well as improved proofing tools.
International Project Manager Eric Paquin wrote on the blog that they would be adding two new languages to Office, bringing the total number of languages to 13 including a couple of difficult Nordic languages like Finnish and Norwegian.
Unfortunately though, they will not be offering full right-to-left support needed for languages like Arabic and Hebrew, but said they would be looking to do so depending on “market opportunity and technical complexity” (are Arabic speaking areas not one of the major emerging markets that technology market researchers are always talking about!?).
He added that “…at this time, we don’t have any updates on languages or features beyond Office 2011”.
Another feature that gets a makeover in Office 2011 is the proofing tools. While users might not see anything really obvious at first glance, they’ve updated all tools and applications to use the same APIs as Office.
The result is that 3rd party proofing tool companies that are relying on the Windows API can now port their tools to work on the Mac as well as converting the tools included in Office 2010. In this respect it is offering three more proofing tools languages (on top of the 2 new full languages): Catalan, Czech and Turkish! Watch this space for more on Mac Office.
Computech Upgrades for Mac
And speaking of Mac, UK-based Computech IT Services has just announced the launch of v2.0 of its business software for the Mac OSX platform.
BusinessMan Enterprises helps companies manage all aspects of their business cycle with Version 2 featuring new sales order and purchase order processing, document management capabilities and a human resources module.
The GUI also features a graphical drag-and-drop category-based stock inventory and products system, allowing users to create customized customer and product discount groups.
In addition, new financial and sales dashboards are available to provide users with a quick, graphical view of outstanding deliveries, quotations, sales to date, sales snapshot figures, a sales graph quick view, purchase order status and goods awaiting shipping.
Doculex Offers New DM Services
Document management vendor DocuLex (news, site) has just announced the launch of the company’s subscription-based managed document services, providing data center infrastructure and amenities to document and content management users.
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