Enterprise Content Management Systems (CMS) News & Articles

This week, the U.S. Congress heard testimony about prospective e-Discovery-related additions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure — the first such hearing since the rules were last updated in 2006. Did you miss it?

Even with the year winding down, there’s still some movement in the GRC space. This week, we looked at SharePoint governance with Quest, ASG bought Atempo, the new HIPAA standard is just about on top of us, and the U.S. government outlined its new security standards for cloud computing.

Heading into the holiday season and things are slowing down. But there are still some gems like SpringCM’s problems with Salesforce, Xerox’s progress in the MFP space, the iPad version of Microsoft’s OneNote productivity app, HP research that finds enterprises are not protecting documents and Mike Doane on effective taxonomies for documents in SharePoint 2010.

Xinet announced WebNative Suite 17, the latest release of its digital asset management solution. The updated DAM suite includes a new interface and expanded search capabilities.

MetaVis has been busy since the release of SharePoint 2010, developing migration tools for content into SharePoint 2010 for numerous different applications. Today’s release, though, of a migration tool for Google Apps to Office 365 and SharePoint 2010, moves it all up a gear.

Nuxeo has announced a new release of its open source enterprise CMS platform. The most recent version, 5.5, is a significant enhancement to the platform. Nuxeo continues to show its commitment to abandoning the traditional application-oriented approach to enterprise CMS in favor of providing a feature-rich platform for building content-centric applications. Version 5.5 adds social features, mobile enhancements and a number of technical enhancements that improve developer productivity.

I recently had the opportunity to conduct a series of CIO roundtables to explore enterprise CMS trends that are top-of-mind for IT leaders. Here’s what I can tell you: What CIOs want for Christmas is a Chief Process Officer (CPO).

According to our CIOs, IT spending is increasingly being viewed as an investment rather than an expense. CIOs are being tasked with getting more value out of their existing stacks, and creating composite applications is an effective way of achieving this goal. However, as more of these composite applications are created, bringing together different systems, departments and ways of getting work done, the need to clearly define process is becoming more important than ever.

Enter the CPO.

In recent years, Complex Event Processing (CEP) has emerged as a key technology that leading businesses use to differentiate themselves from competitors. Traditional enterprise software responds to atomic events in isolation. CEP allows enterprises to identify related events (or even the lack of expected events). When combined with powerful real-time analytics applied to those event patterns, important business trends — which are not visible in the isolated items — can be revealed. These revelations can help identify, in near real time, risks and opportunities that the enterprise can use to gain advantage. However, those insights will not actually yield advantage unless related processes are in place, or can be put in place quickly, to effect business action. Business Process Management (BPM) software is designed to enable precisely this sort of agile, on-the-fly action.

If you think competition in the cloud computing market is getting crazy, then you'd better brace yourself, because it's set to get crazier. The White House has outlined its approach to cloud computing for the next year that will see dozens of legacy systems go, as well as a new set of uniform security requirements that contractors will have to meet.

Salesforce has a problem. Nope, not the title of a new Joseph Heller novel, but the results of internal research carried out by SpringCM of Salesforce customers and corroborated by a further informal survey carried out at Dreamforce 2011 or Cloudforce NYC in November.

Everyone is talking about digital natives, “new users” and the consumerization of IT. No matter what label you use, technology vendors and IT departments, for that matter, are focusing their attention on the end-user experience. They have come to realize that if you (or your products and services) aren’t easy to work with, then customers will get what they need from someone else (and pay their bills instead of yours).

It's been a busy week in the GRC space with StoredIQ extending support to Office 365 and giving visibility across its elements, Symantec reporting that cyber attacks continue to increase, OpenText offering Auto-Classification to Records Management, and Virtual Code Solutions releasing its ShareArchiver solution.

Last month, in the wake of the Metastorm and Global 360 acquisitions, OpenText announced the creation of the Business Process Solution Group.

The Group gathers OpenText’s business process management offerings together as OpenText sets itself as a major contender in the BPM space. We talked to the Group’s CTO Steve Russell and asked him to outline the new Group’s strategy.

Have you seen the movie Real Steel? In the storyline of this flick, automation has replaced human fighters with 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robot boxers. The moral is "humans out, automation in" — end of story, right? Not exactly. As it turns out, it’s the right combination of human and machine that proves necessary for the win. Sounds a lot like business process improvement to me.

Last post, I began looking at my picks for noteworthy enterprise CMS 2012 trends:

1. The rise of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
2. The evolving relationship between compliance and social media
3. ECM goes viral
4. Realistic retention
5. Mainstream Enterprise 2.0
6. Mid-tier ECM steps up to the plate
7. SharePoint decision time

I’ve covered #1 - #3 already (so start there if you missed it). Let’s turn now to the rest of them…

If you thought the people in IT moaned a lot, then you won’t be able to hear yourself think once they get through this year’s Gartner’s IT predictions. The bottom line is that IT departments will have to adapt to working in the wider enterprise rather than within a narrow IT niche, or face elimination.

In a move to expand beyond its eZ Publish web CMS roots, California-based Granite Horizon announced a new partnership with Nuxeo, the open source document management platform. Nuxeo’s advance workflow management enables automation of business processes using their graphical design environment, and when combined with Granite Horizon’s strengths in web CMS, should serve customers well.

One of the biggest problems with records management is that if you don’t classify documents in a logical and consistent way, you might as well not have records management software. OpenText has taken the pain out of classification by introducing auto-classification that uses OpenText’s content analytics engine.

Welcome to the November 2011 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.

Open source enterprise CMS provider Nuxeo announced a new integration with TEMIS. TEMIS’ semantic content enrichment  tool Luxid can now be used to enrich content stored in Nuxeo with domain-specific metadata. No, I didn’t just type a bunch of techno buzzwords. Well, I did, but I promise this is cool.