Enterprise Content Management Systems (CMS) News & Articles

During all the hoopla around the Office 365 release, Microsoft promised that everyone would be able to do everything with it, including the government. Then everything went quiet. We didn’t hear much about the government, Microsoft, the cloud and Office 365, until a recent blog post indicated that Microsoft hadn’t forgotten and was getting something ready for government use.

There were a number of interesting announcements this week including the release of CNG-SAFE v7.5, Lexmark’s addition of new Enterprise CMS functionality through the acquisition of Brainware, OpenText offered Tempo on general release, while Adobe upgraded printing functionality. Meanwhile, Webhostforasp.net offered new SharePoint hosting services.

Metalogix said it will purchase Syntergy and integrate its suite of products, including its popular Replicator web platform, into Metalogix' SharePoint content life cycle management solutions portfolio. Syntergy will continue to operate "independently," keeping its Open Text /LiveLink business but Replicator for SharePoint will become part of Metalogix.

As we enter a new Bring Your Own Device era, the line between personal and corporate data is becoming more blurred. With more consumers becoming more proactive about protecting their information across social media and mobile devices and becoming more in tune to how their information is being protected (or not), we at CMSWire were curious how consumers' own data retention behaviors are affecting how companies manage data.

This week in the GRC space, Symantec upgrades its offerings for mobile security, EMC announced that it is moving into the security space, Agiliance adds new connectors, SAS offers Big Data access using Hadoop and Centrix upgrades workspace.

Last November OpenText announced that it was releasing Tempo, a solution that promised to make document sharing quicker and mobile, while synchronizing data across computers and devices. That is now on general release and was also accompanied by the release of a new Tempo Express Edition.

Need an Alfresco add-on? Well, today’s your lucky day. Open source enterprise CMS provider Alfresco has become the latest company to embrace the wildly successful app store trend for distributing software with the release of its new extensions site, Alfresco Add-ons. 

This week it was always going to be about the RSA 2012 Conference that finishes on Friday coming. There’s a whole pile of releases, some of which we will look at this week, some next week. The most notable intervention so far has been from RSA’s Art Coviello, who says the security industry is going through hell. Meanwhile, Salesforce gets Symantec’s single sign-in, while RSA promises mobile security.

Welcome to the February 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.

EntropySoft has taken a step further to easing the deployment of hybrid IT environments for enterprises. This time, it has announced that it has made its SharePoint connector and Exchange connector compatible with Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud suite.

This week, the web was buzzing with rumors about an iPad version of Office, which Microsoft quickly denied, Alfresco and Jive release a connector for socialized content, Treeno released v4.0 of its enterprise content management system, Varonis joins McAfee partner program, while Cintas and ScanMd get together for medical documents.

Component content management system (CMS) vendor Vasont has released a new version of its platform. The latest release, Vasont ST 2.3, has a number of improvements that make working with the CMS more efficient – especially if you need to publish in multiple languages.

With the promise of improved efficiencies and compelling price, Treeno Software announced its v.4.0 document management system that includes a new look-and-feel user interface to help reduce training, lower cost of operations and improve overall productivity.

Some miracles take longer than others, and HP looks like it might be one of the long ones. After her first quarter as CEO, Meg Whitman gave her first earnings results yesterday, and it looks like HP will need a miracle to get it back to where it once was.

With SharePoint firmly established in the enterprise, and companies looking to deploy an enterprise content management system across the company, many businesses are being forced to answer the question as to whether they should replace their enterprise CMS with SharePoint, or integrate the two.

SharePoint's got enterprise-level game, expanding its active directory entries from 20,000 to a whopping half-million user objects. That's the big news in the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog today announcing the second update to SharePoint Online (SPO) since the launch of Office365. Microsoft is characterizing this as "Enterprise Readiness" and the company said, "As a result, customers of any size can easily start using SharePoint Online. And in the future, you can expect even larger scale limits."

SpringCM announces the addition of Open Cloud Connector to the latest release of its cloud content management solution.

Enterprise content management looks set to make a comeback this year. While most of the curtain calls over the past year have been in the mobile and social media space and enterprise content management has been neglected in many enterprises, new research from Forrester suggests that companies will be investing again in ECM in the coming year.

Promising a fast, secure and flexible way to keep a local backup and restore a cloud-based implementation of SharePoint  items, documents, lists, libraries and sites, Philadelphia-based MetaVis, the SharePoint cloud solution provider, announced "SavePoint" SaaS (software as a service) technology that offers agentless SharePoint backup and archiving for Office 365. The backup service also extends to often overlooked metadata from a local drive, with a price point starting at under $500 and free-trial download available from the company.

With the long weekend it was a quiet week. However, there were some nuggets. HP looks set to offer IDOL to ordinary consumers, the Document Foundation was incorporated in Germany, Dropbox released Automator, eDocSign upgraded its electronic signature functionality and DocuLex’ ArchiveStudio gets specialized.