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The recently release v9.2 of Hyland Software’s (news, site) enterprise content management system continues the development of solutions both on-premise and SaaS and focuses this time on users that work remotely but still need full access to the OnBase ECM suite.

Becoming aware of an issue is one thing. Choosing a solution is another. Once you're aware of how crucial Digital Asset Management, or DAM, is to your organization, you have the fun of trying to sort out which software offerings on the market really are DAM solutions and which suit your particular needs.

Open source dotCMS (news, site) announced that the upcoming 1.9 release will feature an implementation of CMIS v1.0, which is currently in public review.

According to the vendor, Will Ezell, CTO, has been working with other content management vendors supporting CMIS -- IBM, Alfresco, others -- who are part of the founding members of the specification.

dotCMS says it plans to invest in CMIS to help decrease the amount of connector and integration work on the customer’s part. “The big win is the huge increase in the amount of content available to all. dotCMS felt that CMIS would be very attractive to larger enterprises -- a key target for the company,” said Bill Beardslee, SVP, strategy and development.

“Fresh, highly relevant content is the most crucial aspect of building traffic and converting visitors into customers. CMIS unlocks the power of a content repository, creating opportunities for those organizations that know how to pair content with commercial opportunities,” added Ezell.

dotCMS, who is also an OASIS TC member, plans to roll out their CMIS implementation iteratively. Version 1.9 is scheduled to go GA in Q1 2010 and will include a draft implementation that will be finalized by release 2.0 some time in Q3 2010.

And for those of you having as much fun as we are at Gilbane Boston, check out dotCMS' product lab on Thursday.

Get your 3GB of free cloud-storage from Memopal (news, site) to store your files and test out the service to see if their larger offerings will tempt you to upgrade.

Collaboration and improved process tools hit Appian which has press releases falling like Fall leaves to celebrate the launch of version 6 of its BPM suite.

Platformic (news, site) helps keep your company site up-to-the-minute by allowing content to be added from wherever you are.

Only by living on Mars could one have avoided hearing about the iPhone or BlackBerry and their entrances into the corporate world. Millions of consumers and business people are testament to the popularity of the handheld devices that have made accessing the web on the move cheaper and easier.

The new iPhone 3G S could well hasten this trend as its applications can now potentially operate twice as fast.

NewsGator (news, sites) believes that social computing solutions like Social Sites are the next generation of operating system for the organization, calling them the "most productive home base for knowledge workers". They say the latest version of Social Sites -- v3.0 -- includes new capabilities that will transform the content in your organization into social knowledge that is both broad and deep. 

Memopal is an Italian company with a smart way for you to share files, images and video stored on your desktop rapidly using your smartphone.

Anyone working in marketing will know that while your customers won’t love you for offering poor service, your competitors definitely will. Perhaps with that in mind, SaaS web content management solutions provider CrownPeak (news, site) has really been pushing the customer service side of their business over the past year with at least one notable success.

The success this time comes as a finalist – for the second year running – in the Best Customer Service Department category of the American Business Awards 2009 (the ‘Stevies”). The awards ceremony next month will be the culmination of a judging process that began in March and only finished recently.

Probably best known for implementing their SaaS-based web content management system for media publishers, today Clickability offers a new solution that takes them further into the corporate world. Clickability Corporate Solutions is designed not only to provide publishing solutions that work for the marketing department, but that integrate the back office systems providing a website that much more than just a pretty face.

It’s nearly a waste of breath to say that the iPhone is a super hot ticket. With cool factor, pinchable photos, applications galore and gigs on top of gigs for music, who isn't enamored? However true that may be, it doesn’t change the fact that business execs are, in surprising numbers, staying loyal (addicted?) to their BlackBerries.

And that little factoid is exactly why the recent announcement of the deployable package of Google Maps for Mobile through BlackBerry Enterprise Server is another way of saying "Hey, Christmas came early!" to crack-berried suits all over the globe.

Qik, the popular mobile video streaming service, has excited BlackBerry users by releasing a client for the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Pearl. Having Qik on your mobile phone turns your phone into a mobile video streaming device.

Qik users can employ the service to show videos from conferences and events, as well as to reach out to friends and colleagues.

Handango, a provider of smartphone applications for various mobile platforms, has recently released its First Half 2008 Handango Yardstick, a trend report about smartphone content and applications. Games and entertainment applications are the big winners so far this year, as people turn from productivity to time wasting. The games category leaped from fourth place at year-end 2007 into the second spot behind the entertainment category — for the first time in Yardstick’s history.

ASG Software Solutions, a provider of enterprise archiving and records management solutions, recently announced the integration of its ASG-ViewDirect product with Hitachi Data Systems’ Hitachi Content Archive Platform.

This deal came together as a result of ASG’s desire to address the challenges involved with managing enterprise content, while allowing users to easily interact with it. The partnership with Hitcachi Data Systems (HDS) helps ASG achieve these goals.