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Unless data security is a fundamental concern that is considered and communicated at the start of each e-Discovery project, any small gap can quickly become a serious information management risk. 

 While concerns over cloud deployments are now a thing of the past, the cloud is still proving difficult for many enterprises. In fact, new research form Oracle shows that the dual promise of business efficiency and IT agility is still eluding many enterprises.

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.

In a series of surveys last year of more than 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals, much was learned about how people "perceived" their organizations to be handling their SharePoint governance strategy. The data showed a large gap between those perceptions and what governance actually looked like inside businesses. 

Gartner announced the five content management vendors that it rates as ‘Cool’ this year for a variety of different reasons. They include in alphabetical order: Colligo, Flow, Gecod, Reveille and Xiat.

By month three, everyone is uncomfortable. Don’t take it personally, but do manage it. This is no time to slow down. Doggedly move forward.

Larry Ellison must have woken up mighty early this morning (like 5 am PT) to hear what SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner was going to say about SAP HANA, which is being called “the fastest in memory database of all time.” 

Keeping in mind that only yesterday, France officially entered recession again, the announcement today that BonitaSoft has managed to raise another US$ 13 million in a Series C funding round led by the French government’s digital agency shows to some extent what is expected of the business process management vendor in the future.

Once upon a time ago, Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECM) solutions were groovy. They seemed to be the key that opened the door to the land of opportunity. 

Big data is on the minds of just about everyone, with IT departments large and small grappling with exponentially growing volumes of both structured and unstructured data. But despite big data’s place as a mainstream IT phenomenon, the bulk of big data projects still fail, as organizations struggle to find ways to capture, manage, make sense of and ultimately, derive value from their data and information.

After months of accusation and counter accusation there is finally some move on the HP-Autonomy legal contest with a complaint being officially filed. However, the story took another twist this week as SAP claims that HP tried to off-load Autonomy on it. SAP, it seems, politely refused.

Just in time for its Sapphire Now conference this week, SAP has released a deluge of product and partnership updates including the debut of HANA Enterprise Cloud and HANA powered OpenText for SAP Solutions.

With every new edition of SharePoint there’s a lot of new apps around that are key to getting the best of out it. This week AvePoint has a new meetings app to bring order to the content around meetings, Metalogix is offering a new way of assessing SharePoint storage, SharePoint Solutions automates site creation, and PartnerPulse monitors Microsoft partners.

 Most web and cloud giants are always after more efficient ways of processing their data. So what magic does Ubalo have that excited Twitter enough to snap up the company more or less out of the blue? 

So often when we look at how to work with SharePoint we focus in on specific features or functionality based on a silo of information, but the power of SharePoint comes in the ability of users to create simple solutions by combining multiple techniques and tools. 

It can’t be easy to call on customers who have a bone (or two) to pick with you. But EMC IIG (a.k.a. Documentum) President Rick Devenuti has spent the last five years doing exactly that … listening to their complaints, apologizing that his predecessor ignored their needs, promising to address their concerns, and asking for their patience while he built solutions that would not only meet their needs but also delight them. 

Choice is a big word in IT today and though it’s commonly used in conversations that center around end-user interfaces, mobile devices and the Cloud, Enterprises need flexible file storage options too.

For everyone that is predicting the demise of Dell, today’s announcement of its summer 2013 update of the cloud integration platform Boomi AtomSphere as well as the announcement that it is to buying Enstratius, a provider of cloud management software, shows old dogs can do new tricks.

The insurance industry is experiencing a major shift in market behavior. Whether this becomes a perfect storm for failure or a new growth opportunity will depend on the insurer’s ability to respond to the sea change. 

Documentum migrations and integrations of yesteryear were a major pain in the ass. They took months to perform, they were often problematic, and to say they were pricey is an understatement — not only did they take the business offline, but they often required months of high-cost consulting.