Document Management Roll-up: OTEX, Oracle Gets Cozy, Windows Phone 7 Gets Email Archiving

By David Roe (@druadh20) Nov 9, 2010

Another busy week in the world of Document Management. With Windows Phone 7 offering email archiving by LiveOffice and Open Text and Oracle getting together for large volume email capture amongst other things, email has been the theme of the week. In other news, EntropySoft releases a SAP connector, while Box.net gets electronic signature.

Open Text and Oracle Get Cozy

Here’s one we’ve been waiting for. During the conference call for Open Text’s Q4 results in August, it announced that it was discussing a technology agreement with Oracle (news, site) but didn't offer up many details. In a very similar manner to that relationship, OTEX working with SAP said it planned to leverage Oracle to "deliver a new suite of ECM solutions."

This week it has finally released a few more details. In order to expand its archiving, eDiscovery and regulatory compliance offerings, Open Text (news, site) is in the process of obtaining a technology and distribution license from Oracle for its Universal Online Archive Content Management SDK.

As a result, Open Text will be able to embed Oracle technology in its products, allowing it to use the capabilities of Oracle Database 11g as an enterprise content repository. This will also permit rapid uptake of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and other Oracle platform capabilities.

With the combined software, Open Text customers will be able to capture large volumes of emails, documents, images and application data while managing their entire lifecycle in an integrated environment. The agreement will also help Open Text customers leverage their existing investment in Oracle technology by integrating into existing Oracle infrastructure deployments.

Open Text says that Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database provide a secure and highly scalable enterprise infrastructure for storing large volumes of content and that the agreement will enable them to offer their users a more effective way of managing large volumes of structured and unstructured data.

Open Text has been doing this for a long time anyway so it is not entirely clear why this partnership is necessary. Let’s see what the final result is before commenting.

Windows Phone 7 Gets Archiving

In more archiving news announced this week, the recently launched Windows Phone 7 LiveOffice, which provides SaaS archiving, compliance and continuity software for emails, has just announced the availability of LiveOffice Personal Archive for Windows Phone 7.

LiveOffice’s latest mobile device application provides Windows Phone 7 users with unlimited archive storage for emails and attachments. They will also be offered unlimited search capabilities and unlimited access to messages — even if their primary email platform is down.

The new app provides users with advanced search capabilities, uninterrupted access and the ability to access archived messages on the go. Pricing was not disclosed. For that you’ll have to contact LiveOffice.