Document Mgt Roll-up: Alfresco Gets Social, ZL Gives Archiving to IBM’s Lotus Notes

By David Roe (@druadh20) Feb 1, 2011

Busy week here in the document management mines. Alfresco made its document management software social, LibreOffice continued to expand its reach by adding portable functionality, Xerox bought some new document collaboration software with WaterWare and Oce took a look at the benefits of document imaging.

Archiving for IBM Lotus Notes & Domino

ZL Technologies is one of the many companies showing off at Lotusphere this year. They have brought ZL Unified Archive, a highly scalable and flexible solution to govern enterprise information across the organization.

The Lotus interest stems from the fact that it is designed for out of the box integration with IBM (news, site) Lotus Notes and Domino.

The solution is able to index, store and de-duplicate all Lotus Notes emails and attachments passing through the Domino server in a centralized repository.

Even better, it can support the mixed e-mail environments of IBM Lotus Domino, Exchange or any other major e-mail platform in a single deployment utilizing a single, consolidated archive.

Some of the features include the ability to ingest and archive millions of messages a day in large Lotus Notes email environments, the mitigation of regulatory risk by automating Lotus Notes archiving and retention management and the de-duplication of emails and attachments across all Lotus servers. If you’re at Lotusphere, check it out at stand #222.

Alfresco DMS Gets Social

Alfresco added new functionality to its document management system this week with the addition of social networking, workflow and enhanced collaboration abilities.

Alfresco (news, site) is describing this as a significant release that delivers Alfresco’s vision of providing the open platform for social content management.

That’s what it's saying anyway. It does this by delivering both a more robust content platform for building any kind of content-rich application, along with a more social user-interface for collaboration and document management.

The platform will be used by developers and companies to build applications where enterprise content is “social-ready” — or shared, collaborated on and syndicated across the web — and captured for compliance, retention and control.

Alfresco’s refreshed Share interface now includes status updates (similar to Facebook and Twitter), content activity streams and enhanced search capabilities to make content easier to find.

Business users can now set-up simple document workflow — such as approvals or content transformations —inside the Share interface. For robust workflow, Alfresco Share now exposes workflows created with standards-based enterprise business process management tools.

Take LibreOffice 3.3 Anywhere

Remember the first stable release of LibreOffice in v3.3 recently? Well, they’ve just made that release portable. PortableApps.com and the Document Foundation have announced the immediate availability of LibreOffice Portable 3.3, a portable version of the free productivity suite for Windows.