Document Management Roll-up: MS Upgrades Office Web Apps, FB Docs, SAP Extends DM

New school year begins, and Microsoft has been very, very busy with upgrades to its Office Web Apps only two months after it is released. SAP, in the meantime, started reselling SteamServe’s document automation solution under a new name.

MS Upgrades Web Apps and Facebook Docs

It’s not clear why it’s happened already, but Microsoft (news, site) — only two months after the release — has decided to upgrade Office Web Apps, and has used the occasion to upgrade Facebook (news, site) Docs too.

If you check out the Web Apps blog you will see a whole list of new features that Microsoft says have been added or upgraded at the request of its user including Excel Web App charting and auto fill, and PowerPoint clip art and themes support, and printing (from Word Web App). And Facebook Docs, which is really a version of Office Web Apps for Facebook, now has document tagging and better search.

According to the blog, the really big new feature is the ability to print from the Editor (as opposed to the Viewer), although this applies to the Word App only, while the Excel App now offers users the ability to insert charts into workbooks much the same as they might do with Excel 2010.

Facebook Docs users can now tag documents with keywords for tracking and organization purposes while they can now also search for public documents based on name, Facebook page, or tag. It also a new look and feel designed to make it more user-friendly.

And that’s not all, Nick Simons Program Manager, Office Web Apps, says on the blog. In the coming weeks there will be further changes based on user feedback. Watch this space.

SAP Extends DM with StreamServe

SAP has been busy on the document management front recently – probably because they’ve realized most of their clients are looking for suitable Document Management software. With the announcement that it has just teamed up with StreamServe, to sell SteamServe’s document automation solution under the name SAP Document Presentment application by StreamServe.

New under the SAP (news, site)  name, this document automation software automates the generation and personalization of documents and communications from multiple enterprise applications to multiple output types, including print, email, fax and mobile.

A fully integrated, cross-vertical solution for document-rich business processes requiring personalized and customer-centric communications in complex and/or high-volume environments, SAP says it will be offering it across all the verticals it is currently working in.

Obviously SAP wasn’t going to sell it unless it fitted its existing portfolio, so it also supports all SAP interfaces for output management and offers additional features for high-volume print and electronic output to complement SAP’s offerings for output services, including the SAP Billing application, consume-to-cash offerings and the SAP NetWeaver technology platform.

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New school year begins, and Microsoft has been very, very busy with upgrades to its Office Web Apps only two months after it is released. SAP, in the meantime, started reselling SteamServe’s document automation solution under a new name.