Document Management Roll-up: New Mobile Office Suite, SharePoint 2010 Gets DoD 5015.2 Certified

By David Roe (@druadh20) Jul 6, 2010 Comments

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Long weekends are usually short on news, but not this time. Over the past few days, a new suite of mobile Office applications has just been unveiled, while SharePoint is not the only software to get records management, with IBM’s Lotus Domino platform getting a little records management love too.

SoftMaker Launches Mobile Office Suite

If you’re many of the mobile workers that have been affected by the limitations of Microsoft mobile, then the beta release of a new mobile Office application from German vendor SoftMaker might be what you are looking for.

Available for download from the SoftMaker website, this new beta of its mobile office is a full-featured suite of applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint with open, save and edit features for all three. It also comes with support for XML formats of Office 2007 and Office 2010.

SoftMaker says that SoftMaker Office 2010 for Windows Mobile will directly and without conversion, retain all the formatting, functions and contents of Office files.

Included are:

TextMaker: All the high-end features of desktop word processors and compatible with Microsoft Word.
PlanMaker: A spreadsheet application that offers access to mobile Excel.
SoftMaker Presentations: All the transitions, animations, designs and layouts from PowerPoint.

The new 2010 version of the suite also allows users to create PDF versions of documents. After the 30 day trial period is finished it will cost US$ 88 for three licenses, allowing use on three handsets at the same time.

SharePoint 2010, DoD 5015.2 Certification And Laserfiche

It was coming up to the US holiday weekend so you may have missed this one. Laserfiche (news, site) has become the first Microsoft Partner to achieve joint DoD 5015.2 certification for its integration with SharePoint 2010.

Putting aside all issues with DoD and SharePoint 2007, with SharePoint 2010 released, many companies are looking for Microsoft to get its own certification and/or for ECM vendors to get certified with the new version.

Laserfiche is one of these enterprise cms vendors that offers integrated records management capabilities with SharePoint. Built on Microsoft.NET and already tightly integrated with SharePoint 2007, Laserfiche will add the following capabilities to support the 2010 version:

ADO.NET provider to enable access to Laserfiche data from Business Connectivity Services
Federated Search
Records Management document categorization using SharePoint's BCS

A joint announcement from Laserfiche and Microsoft is expected today (Tuesday) after the long weekend in the US.

The question still remains, though, is Microsoft able to pursue DoD 5015.2 certification on its own for SharePoint 2010? Or will it rely on the integrated capabilities of its partners to do that?

Assess Atalasoft SharePoint Viewer

And speaking of SharePoint, Atalasoft (news, site), a provider of document viewing solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, has just announced that it is providing public access to Vizit Essential, a universal document viewer for SharePoint.