Enterprise Content Management Systems (CMS) News & Articles

In the GRC space this week, the big news has to be that Google is offering cheap e-Discovery with its Google Apps. However, there are more nuggets in Lockpath’s survey of risk, while a number of GRC acquisitions this week are worth noting.

What is customer experience management? A marketing discipline. A set of software features. Deep Social integration. Nope. At its core, customer experience management is something much more fundamental: Ensuring the right experience for customers; the technology is just a mechanism to achieve it. It seems that enterprise CMS provider Hyland Software is at least one software company trying to get it right.

Perceptive has been busy again. Already this month it has added federated search, text through the ISYS acquisition, document imaging through the Nolij acquisition and integration with Microsoft Dynamics AX. Now it has expanded its cloud offerings internationally.

SAP returns. Or rather KnowledgeLake, SharePoint, MPS and SAP return and get it together to make it easier for users to get to their content. This is the second time this week that SAP has added functionality to ECM for SAP. The first time was about adding CRM; this time, it's about gaining access to documents stored in SharePoint from SAP.

Welcome to the March 2012 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

This week in the GRC space, new research from IDC shows security and regulatory concerns are holding back cloud adoption, at least in the utilities vertical; NextDocs upgrades its SharePoint compliance product; Avira tracks lost Androids and LockPath partners with Qualys.

This week, Zoho announced that it was expanding its portfolio of mobile applications including Zoho Docs, OpenText extended the reach of its enterprise CMS for SAP, we took a look at whether Office 365 is good for your business, Cabinet NG releases WebSync and NovoDynamics launches NovoDocufier.

Component content management provider Vasont has announced an integration with the oXygen XML editor, which will allow users to edit and review XML more efficiently. 

You may recall earlier in the month that Microsoft announced that it was making Office 365 cheaper by up to 20%. With low-level entry barriers for its competitors such as Google and Zoho, it’s not unlikely that those prices will drop again, especially as Microsoft says it is cutting internal costs. But even with the reduced pricing, is Office 365 – and, in particular, SharePoint Online — really for you.

Since SAP and OpenText signed reseller agreements to sell OpenText document management and enterprise CMS under the SAP brand name, they’ve been steadily building the product portfolio and adding new functionality. Now they have released v10 with support for SAP CRM and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).

Busy week with security and data insights taking pride of place. Symantec has two news offerings worth noting this week including the release of Data Insight 3.0 and the acquisition of Nukon, IBM offers analytics for fraud prevention, ControlPanelGRC upgrades and Vista Buys Equity.

For almost 15 years, companies large and small have been publishing intranet sites to either share information and files with their employees or allow cross sharing between many and possibly all employees. However, an intranet site is only as good as the freshness of its content and the ease with which that content can be obtained. And in today’s world, there are so many alternatives for individuals to share what they want, when they want.

This week, there have been a number of interesting announcements, including one from Formtek, which has added five extensions to Alfresco; Lexmark continues to grow its enterprise CMS capabilities, M-Files releases Vault 2.0 and KnowledgeLake introduces Unify.

Right since way back when and just after Microsoft released Dynamics AX, Perceptive got cozy with AX. First it integrated its ImageNow product, and now it has announced release of Interact for Dynamics that makes content offered through document capture and retrieval technology accessible from any AX 2012 list page or detail screen.

It’s Show and Tell time at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco this week as the world’s leading content management vendors gather to showcase their latest offerings at the AIIM conference.

Earlier in the week we looked at migrating content into hybrid SharePoint environments and the importance of governance and securing content. Today, Vordel shot across the radar with the release of its SharePoint Gateway solution that enables users to share data between SharePoint; mobile workforces and non-Microsoft applications.

If you use open source enterprise CMS platform Nuxeo and open source portal platform Liferay, we have good news for you. The vendors announced that Nuxeo’s platform is certified as a content source for Liferay.

This week, there are number of issues dear to the GRC heart. First, OpenText is offering a secure large file transfer application, Symantec has identified what happens to data on smartphones when the smartphones get lost, we take a look at SharePoint governance and content migration, while Canon secures information captured through printers.

This week, Accusoft upgrades Connect v5, harmon.ie and IBM Connections in Outlook sidebar, Recall upgrades storage capabilities with ReQuest Web, TIS announces intelligent mobile document capture, while SMBs continue to fight document overload.

With a nip here and a tuck there, Dropbox rolled out a streamlined, cleaner design.