Latest Records Management News & Articles

Vital Path, a developer of content integration and migration software, recently announced enhanced federated records management capabilities for PathBuilder. PathBuilder now enables organizations to efficiently perform records management tasks with multiple repositories without requiring them to abandon existing records management investments.

With eDiscovery such a hot topic these days, one of the more important things that enterprises need to do is ensure their information is stored in an accurate and easy to find manner. IT Consultancy firm Paragon Solutions has created a Records Management Maturity Model that will help you determine where you are in the process of doing just that and what you can do to move from one stage of the model to the next.

While many of the Content Enabled Vertical Applications (CEVAs) on the market today have been focused on the Enterprise CMS platform, McKesson — a provider of healthcare software — has released a series of content management integrations to their existing applications. To do this, McKesson has built its own Enterprise CMS platform to bring library services to the healthcare market.

According to a document management study that was commissioned by Iron Mountain, UK firms are more likely to trust others with the task of records management than German and French firms. Interestingly, most firms decide to keep active records stored on-site. Is our information safe?

CA, an independent IT management company, has got our backs during this economic crunch. Recently, they released a new Information Governance Suite with an array of new Enterprise IT Management and Governance solutions, each designed to help organizations improve the economics of IT and provide greater business value.

It's hard to know what the deal is with Vignette. Poor financial results and some unflattering press throughout the summer suggest all's not well with this aristocratic web and enterprise content management brand. But awards aplenty and an enduring client-base chock-full of marquee names suggests the opposite.

The company has been kicked around a little bit lately in the press. And so, cutting a long story short, we got in contact with Dave Dutch, senior VP for products and marketing, to give him the chance to craft some arguments for why our readers should pick Vignette ahead of its competitors. Wedged inline we also offer our own observations on these views. Pass the jump to burrow yourself in.

We like wikis, but how does a wiki present itself in a business environment? Well, if Swirrl is any indication, then it is worth noting that we still have a way to go. The service aims to get business employees collaborating in a wiki environment, where users can contribute to static pages and data sets. However, the focus is all on the data, which utilizes RDF for a semantic Web experience.

The main focus of Swirrl is data collaboration. Users can collaborate on data by utilizing an RDF structure. RDF, for the sake of simplicity, is a way to store information in a way that is semantic, or related.

ColumbiaSoft has released Email Archive — a new email research, retrieval and compliance application. While heavily utilizing ColumbiaSoft's Document Locator — an enterprise document management solution — Email Archive has a helping hand in the area of email management, which makes this package even more valuable.

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.

Tangent Inc., a developer of innovative technology solutions, has recently announced a hosted version of its DataCove email archiving appliance to help enterprises stay in compliance with eDiscovery requirements.

Isilon Systems, a hardware and software enterprise storage provider, has completed integrations between its Isilon IQ and NFS Maestro by Hummingbird, a subsidiary of Open Text, to improve access and delivery of file-based critical business information.

This solution will benefit enterprises running on Microsoft Windows by providing a faster and more secure Network File System (NFS) protocol for data access.

It is frustrating when a lost phone leads to a loss of all contacts — after all, this shouldn't be a problem with today's technology. Xumii changes this by announcing a first for cell phones — a social address book. It makes quite the impression, and is another example of how important mobile technology is becoming.

Iron Mountain Europe, a records management and storage services provider, announced the acquisition of Anamnis GDM SAS, a firm specializing in electronic document management solutions.

Mimosa isn't just your typical Sunday brunch affair anymore. Now it can also archive your email.

Mimosa Systems, a provider of information management and content archiving solutions, recently announced an addition of a new solution — email archiving — to its NearPoint product.

Open Text is expanding its ECM portfolio by announcing a new solution for e-mail management targeted at law firms.

The solution — Open Text E-mail Lifecycle Management for Law Firms — combines such features as e-mail filing and archiving and aims to help firms to define, secure and control the e-mail management and retention processes according to compliance mandates and internal policies.

Feels like we talk a lot about compliance concerns for organizations these days. And the fact is that we do because it has become such a huge regulatory concern that can cost millions of dollars if not carefully managed. DocsCorp has released an upgrade to its document comparison software pdfDocs compareDocs that they believe goes even further in supporting their clients in their compliance needs.

Obviously not one to rest on their laurels after recognizing record profits and getting top honors in Gartner’s MarketScope for Web Content Management 2008, enterprise content management provider Interwoven has come out with some upgrades to its RecordsManager solution designed to “significantly expand upon Interwoven's strategy of delivering an integrated governance solution for electronic documents and physical records”

Concursive has decided to provide users with the opportunity to use its flagship product, ConcourseSuite 5, for free while having avoided placing the many limitations that a user would normally expect from an offering like this. This package is a culmination of several separate modules — solutions like CRM, CMS and Collaboration — that have been brought together in a single solution to assist companies with managing information and enabling collaboration.

Evolving from copiers to document management to CMS, Xerox announces the launch of DocuShare Express, a content management solution developed specifically for small to mid-sized businesses.

DocuShare Express includes many of the same features of Xerox’s original DocuShare ECM suite and enables businesses to store, access and share documents and content.

Three releases so far this year and it’s not even Labor Day yet! Ademero Inc., a document management vendor, has released version 4.6 of Content Central — its browser-based document management software.

Both the Enterprise and Workgroup Editions of the product have been updated with a set of additional DMS features.