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Old school Documentum certainly had its problems. Time to value was slow, Webtop often presented more challenges than happy users, and some managers were asked to question whether they were getting enough bang for the enterprise buck.

It seems that no matter where users are working, they want Microsoft Office. At the beginning of the year, there was lots of buzz about Microsoft Office on the iPad. Now, rumors are swirling about Android. An unnamed source is saying that the popular office productivity suite will make its official appearance on iOS and Android devices by the end of the year.

Just because you know something is going to happen — particularly something bad — it can still have a negative impact. A case in point is the loss of 27,000 jobs at HP out of its estimated 350,000 workforce.

This is the fourth article in this series “What Is This SharePoint Thing All About Anyway?” In this article we are going to be looking at the concept of SharePoint Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

If you use Documentum for your enterprise content management platform — or SharePoint, Alfresco, Oracle, or maybe a mix of these — then you might be interested in having a look at Generis CARA. CARA is a browser-based document management interface that works with both CMIS and repository specific extensions and it's a pretty slick tool. Let's take a look.

You say infographic, I say data visualization. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, right? It seems that every day a new graphic representation of data shows up begging us to zoom in, scroll and otherwise engage, but how you get to the final result comes down to the using the right data and the right tool. We can’t help you with your data, but we can help you find the right tool. We compiled our list of the tools for creating infographics and data visuals. Today, we present our top five tools for creating infographics.

Online file sharing and collaboration sevice Box has a host of new updates aimed firmly at major enterprise users. From new admin tools to an improved license agreement, they will improve the service's appeal to IT admins and department purse holders.

If you think that Documentum has left its best days behind, there’s now reason to reconsider. Though the slumbering ECM industry giant might have been caught resting on its laurels for a wee bit too long, it has now come back to life with the passion and the energy of a newcomer who has something to prove.

The move to Office 365 — and SharePoint online — is getting more attractive every day. The functionality is there, the price is just about right, so why not? If you are considering a move to the cloud-based version of SharePoint, there are a few things you should consider in your migration planning.

The weather finally turned hot this week in Europe, and it looks like it could fray tempers a bit as Oracle, SAP and IBM once again set upon a collision course — this time over data management around e-commerce.

Many organizations deal with information management issues every day. They have information management projects, tools, strategies and other means to manage their information. Some projects are successful, but many are not. Decision makers often have no idea where all these projects and tools are leading them to.

Let’s not beat around the bush. Why don’t you want users to adopt SharePoint?

 Consider for a moment that you are a health care provider. For every patient you see, you hear “I read on the Internet that …” As a result, you may spend a great deal of time re-educating the consumer and separating fact from fiction — unless of course, there was some way to ensure that the bulk of health information being consumed online was accurate and up-to-date. Healthline Networks’ new Consumer Engagement Platform is helping to make that dream a reality.  

This week there is OpenText’s announcement that Metastorm BPM has been given some very serious security certifcation, EMC buys Syncplicity and offers cloud governance, Iron Mountain outlines the problems created by SharePoint and Social Media in records management and BWise moves on from acquisition.

More enterprises have begun to see the cloud as a viable option for everything from physical servers to end user facing applications. This increased user demand is allowing companies such as data platform-as-a-service provider Cloudant to grow rapidly. The company announced that it is further expanding its data centers globally to improve reliability and performance.

Can an enterprise content management system promise to delight end-users and keep the company CEO out of jail at the same time?

The Society of American Archivists (SAA) offered its “Managing Electronic Records in Archives & Special Collections” workshop in Seattle May 10-11th in support of its Digital Archives Specialist [DAS] certificate.

It’s been busy enough this week, especially with the CODiE awards where SpringCM has a lot to shout about, while DocuLex has upgraded Archive Studio, eFileCabinet has entered a new partnership and Gartner has identified what it considers the coolest content management vendors on the planet.

If EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci aimed to put its partners' collective mind at rest over the fate of Documentum, then Jeremy Burton, the company’s CMO, was there to outline where EMC is going with the cloud and Big Data.