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Monday, Oct 6 2008

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he wants more powerful software for the Web. Well, Ballmer also happens to have a corporate technological powerhouse under his direction — shouldn’t be too hard, right?

At the 2008 Professional Developers Conference (PDC2008), Microsoft will be divulging information to the world about Windows 7, but the Windows cloud-based operating system is going to be the highlight of the conference.

Friday, Oct 3 2008

Liquid Machines, an Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions provider, released the Liquid Machines Gateway for SharePoint. The new solution aims to protect documents and eliminate the risk of data loss beyond the SharePoint collaboration and document management environment.

It is all about protecting corporate intellectual property and other forms of highly-sensitive data. Plus, who doesn’t cater to SharePoint users nowadays? Especially, since it gets all kinds off accolades every so often.

Friday, Sep 26 2008

Users love SharePoint. Users hate SharePoint. Despite much controversy around MOSS, Microsoft has been positioned by Gartner in the 2008 Leaders Magic Quadrant in both the Enterprise Content Management and Horizontal Portals segments.

Microsoft is proud of its positioning in the ECM Magic Quadrant and says this development “signifies the strides SharePoint Server 2007 is making in the ECM industry.”

MOSS as Enterprise CMS was released less than two years ago, impacting the entire ECM industry.

Friday, Sep 26 2008

The global economy may be imploding, but the flow of investment capital into the social media space shows no sign of recession. Intel Capital continues the trend by taking a US$ 20 million stake in Telligent Systems.

Thursday, Sep 25 2008

MachSol, Inc., a SaaS-enabled control panel software vendor, has released its SharePoint Control Panel System.

Designed to automate the billing, provisioning and management of hosted SharePoint 3.0 service, SharePoint Extension (SPE) is now available as a module of eJad Service Provider Management system 2.0.

Tuesday, Sep 23 2008

CM Group, a provider of e-learning software and services, has recently announced a new component to Luminosity Content Server that will allow for integration into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

This integration will give enterprises more personalized options for educating employees with virtual learning material.

Tuesday, Sep 16 2008

Bamboo Solutions knows a lot about SharePoint. They should. Their business is focused on delivering collaborative business solutions based on the SharePoint platform. Their latest solution to hit the pavement is the Project Management Suite for SharePoint and it looks jam packed with functionality any project manager using SharePoint would drool over.

Monday, Sep 15 2008

Ajax is a popular approach to developing applications and mashups. But with different implementation approaches, it makes it hard to create an application or widget that works consistently across browsers and in mashups. Until now…

The OpenAjax Alliance has announced a new draft specification that will facilitate interoperability across IDEs and make widgets more interoperable in mashups.

Friday, Sep 12 2008

AvePoint, a provider of data protection and management solutions for SharePoint, has released DocAve 5.0, the newest version of its flagship MOSS infrastructure management software platform.

The company boasts “groundbreaking new functionalities” in the release that was primarily focused around the enhanced user interface, brand new modules and “intelligent” SharePoint backup and recovery.

At a time when events are happening almost every week on the subject of enterprise content management, it’s not surprising to see eCopy welcoming you to spend the day on October 9, 2008 learning about turning your paper into digital assets and how to extend SharePoint to include paper-based information.

Thursday, Sep 11 2008

Vorsite Corporation, a provider of enterprise content management and search solutions, has done well by attaining Gold Certified Partner Status in the Microsoft Partner Program.

Just yesterday, some major enterprise content management industry heavy weights — Microsoft, IBM, EMC, Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle and SAP, announced the first ever Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification draft enabling interoperability across content repositories. By creating a common API, companies can develop write-once, run-anywhere, content and social applications.

As a contributing member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is able to offer a draft implementation of CMIS for developers who can peruse and explore the draft specification. In addition, Alfresco also announced the first CMIS implementation with the latest release of Alfresco Labs 3.