Clearpeople News & Articles

It’s been a busy week in document management. Embedded translation comes to SharePoint from Lingotek, Google Docs looks like it might be getting cloud printing, Adobe finally releases Acrobat X and SpringCM offers more business automation for enterprises.

ClearPeople (news, site) and Microsoft (news, site) recently published a case study that highlights how the SharePoint platform can be leveraged for vertical document management solutions. In this case, we see how SharePoint has been extended to provide legal document management capabilities, clearly demonstrating that SharePoint can be much more than a simple file share.

London-based company ClearPeople is offering 45-day trials of its new PeoplePoint and CorpCast add-ons for Microsofts SharePoint Server 2007. PeoplePoint makes it easier to find colleagues and their contact information, while CorpCast helps inform users of vital updates in realtime, without resorting to bulk e-mails.

Microsoft CMS' workflow features are hardwired in the off the shelf product. This works alright for organizations with a simple publishing process, but can become a touch troublesome when there are more complex requirements.

Skelta, a Bangalore-based BPM software company, has answered to this need with their Workflow.NET product.

A recent survey conducted by Microsoft corp finds that workers average only three productive days per week and lays the blame on among other things, unproductive staff meetings.

69% of the 38,000 people surveyed considered meetings to be an unproductive use of time. A shocking finding indeed!

Yahoo, a late comer to blogging, announces Yahoo 360. The free service gives existing and new Yahoo! users a place on the web to share everything with everybody, or somebody. Its a digital orgy with blogs, moblogs, photos, lists (e.g., favorite books), blasts, LaunchCast, and reviews.