Document Management Roll-up: SharePoint 2010 Support Increases, Open Text Offers Semantic Navigation

It's just about the end of August and time for the gears to shift up one. This week, there have been a number of new releases that have focused principally on getting SharePoint 2010-ready. O3Spaces has also been busy, this time adding Linux support.

MetaVis Supports SharePoint 2010 Document Sets

Summer though it may be MetaVis (news, site) has been busy creating new support for SharePoint 2010. Earlier this month it introduced MetaVis Live Compare offering better governance over SharePoint implementations. This week it has announced that the MetaVis Architect Suite now supports SharePoint 2010 Term Stores and Document Sets.

Architect Suite includes metadata and migration software to help users design efficient taxonomy structures and easily move or classify content in SharePoint.

You may remember in the run-up to the launch of SharePoint 2010 we did quite a bit of work on Document Sets and while we’d refer you to that coverage to explain exactly what they do, in short they allow related documents to be versioned or sent through workflow processes as a single piece of content.

MetaVis now supports Document Sets in SharePoint 2010 sites as any other native SharePoint object allowing users to copy Document Sets between SharePoint 2010 sites. This makes it easy to copy data using specific SharePoint 2010 features between SharePoint 2010 sites.

Using Term Store users can define and manage taxonomy structures. The Term Store Manager in the MetaVis Suite allows users to browse SharePoint 2010 term stores and copy term hierarchies,

The bottom line here is that using these features makes it much easier to plan a 2010 migration strategy — particularly the migration of documents. If you want to see what Architect Suite does you can download a free trial at the MetaVis website.

Workshare Adds Document and Email Management

Here’s more help for SharePoint 2010, this time from Workshare (news, site), a web services and document management vendor that provides document comparison, multi-party review and content change tracking to the enterprise.

Their latest release is beta program for new document and email management software that extends the enterprise content management capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by enabling a user’s access to files and to manage matter-related documents and email using the same Microsoft Office tools they currently use to create, send and receive documents. The reasoning behind it is that while SharePoint 2010 provides a scalable platform for a centralized document repository, many users want to manage documents and email from within their own Office applications.

While Workshare clearly has a major interest in the legal market, this is a solution that will work across the entire corporate market. Features include:

• Subject- and client-centric browsing with document check-in and check-out from Microsoft Office and Outlook
• Email management and content filing to SharePoint 2010 from within Outlook
• Advanced search

And yes, it was designed to work with existing Workshare comparison, metadata cleaning and PDF collaboration tools, so if you’re using them you can bring them along too. Full general release is expected in Q4.

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It's just about the end of August and time for the gears to shift up one. This week, there have been a number of new releases that have focused principally on getting SharePoint 2010-ready. O3Spaces has also been busy, this time adding Linux support.