Ecm News & Articles

Following their acquisition of Hummingbird this past summer, Open Text has recently announced their latest public intentions for the Hummingbird brand of Enterprise Content Management software and for 2007 as a whole.

cBrains email management system was recently updated to work with Microsoft Exchange/Outlook and Lotus Notes and it now also complies with the new Federal e-Discovery Rules in the US. Although they are an Australian company and the new law, which was affective December 1, 2006, isn’t applicable to them, their customers certainly may be subject to it, so its time to fall in line.

Open Text’s eDOCS DM — the former Hummingbird document management product — gets its very own SmartRecovery backup product courtesy of Enterprise CMS data integrity software vendor, CYA.

If you are into BPM, and that’s more and more of you lately, Gartner — the heavyweight amongst the IT research giants — is running their Business Process Management Summit this February 26th through 28th in San Diego, California.

As if you needed another excuse to break out the corporate Amex and expense a trip to NYC, LinuxWorld’s Open Solutions Summit cranks up February 14th for two days at the Marriott Marquis.

Tucking content services neatly away in into lower logical layers has been a theme over the last six months. This time its open source Enterprise CMS vendor Alfresco chiming in. Following a similar announcement from EMC in November, Alfresco has today released Enterprise Edition v1.4 of the Alfresco embedded Enterprise Content Management system.

Xythos have launched one of the first software as a service (SaaS) document management and collaboration services targeted at the small, medium enterprise market. Xythos On Demand, as its called, aims at trimming costs while facilitating good document housekeeping and easy collaboration. It sure ain’t free like SharePoint, but then installing Microsoft’s bundle of MOSSy fun isn’t exactly a few clicks away either.

Guess there’s nothing wrong with making a little dosh with your open source sweat ‘n tears. eZ Systems, recent winner of the cmf2006 Web Idol Award, has announced that it will bundle its original Open Source CMS software, eZ Publish, with a plethora of new setup and maintenance services for a tidy fixed price. The result is eZ Publish Now, an harmonious marriage between the familiar eZ Publish tools and the convenience of a bunch of helping hands.