Enterprise Content Management Systems (CMS) News & Articles

You’ll often need to explain the goals of your Enterprise Content Management (ECM) program in more detail than an elevator pitch. Here are the objectives and guiding principles applicable to most ECM programs.

 Box's latest PC-based feature update allows users to create and edit documents within the cloud, avoiding the need for discrete downloads, juggling apps and version conflicts. 

Mobile file sharing technology provider Accellion is extending its kitepoint external file sharing tool to provide mobile users with secure access to content in enterprise content management (ECM) systems.

For its first acquisition of 2013, OpenText has bought a long-time fellow traveller Resonate Knowledge Technologies (KT) which has been working with the OpenText Content Server and Enterprise CMS offerings for a long time.

Enterprise content management provider Hyland Software has announced its acquisition of AnyDoc Software, an automated document, data capture and classification solutions provider.

Earlier in the month former Alfresco CEO John Powell outlined a change in the business direction of Alfresco that will take it to and IPO in US and a wider global presence. Today, Doug Dennerline announced the acquisition of Germany-based WeWebU that will expand its enterprise portfolio for content management.

 Having been available through beta, enterprise releases and free upgrade offers, the latest collection of Office 2013 products from Microsoft becomes generally available this week with a launch party announced for Tuesday in New York. 

Contributor Virginia Backaitis has been following some of the companies she covers since their inception. This perspective adds a depth and level of understanding to her articles, which make following enterprise content management as addictive as following your favorite show. Read what Virginia had to say about the field in this interview.

It’s been a busy year in the information management space. With the year fast coming to a close we note a time of substantial change across the entire landscape which shows the increasing importance of social business, the lack-luster performance of the enterprise content management space and, like everywhere else, an increasingly speedy move to the cloud.

Some say that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems are at their best when they are boring.

I respectfully disagree.

In 2012, the enterprise content management industry saw tons of growth and movement — and 2013 promises to shake it up even further.

Nuxeo has unveiled Nuxeo Studio 2.9, an updated version of its application and solution software development tool.

I am really not big on speculative, future prediction posts. There are too many factors in our highly complex world that can derail even the most well researched and thought out theories for how our industry could develop, so I am going to shy away from predictions per se. Instead, I'll consider some general directions, and why other people's predictions make me laugh and make me feel like a Knowledge Management / Enterprise Content Management Grinch! Prepare for a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past …

For a long time Documentum was known as the 800-pound gorilla of the Enterprise Content Management world, a force to be reckoned with, but not exactly sexy or sleek.  

Yes, Virginia, there is life beyond SharePoint.

 You just couldn’t make this up. HP, formerly one of the New York Stock Exchange’s darlings and until recent times often mentioned in the same breath as IBM, could be set to call in the cops over the acquisition of Autonomy 18 months ago. According to CEO Meg Whitman, someone had been cooking the books before the deal was inked.

In the legal community, it’s well known that Clifford Chance, one of the world’s largest law firms, has been undergoing a major shift towards using SharePoint as the firm’s Enterprise CMS. At the SharePoint Conference last week, I attended the session dedicated to exploring this implementation in more detail. 

This is the fourth and final day at SharePoint Conference Las Vegas. After a good party last night, it's time to talk risk management in my first session of the day, presented by Paul Olenick: "Reducing Organizational Risk Through Effective Information Management."

An interesting thing happened while I was doing research for this article. I Googled “what is enterprise technology supposed to do?” and guess what I got? Short of some ads for Enterprise Rent a Car, not much.