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In the document management space this week, Alfresco announced that later in the week it will be releasing Enterprise 4, Microsoft announced the public beta of Office 15 for the summer, Colligo got legal at LegalTech, Rioch bought HSSK and M-Files can now be used on mobile devices.

Arguably one of the reasons for SharePoint's success over the last few years is the ecosystem of third party products and developers that help to support it. Generally speaking, if you want to add to or expand the standard SharePoint feature set, there is a product or plugin that fits the bill. Visual workflow design, list and document level backup and a hundred weather webparts -- all can be readily and easily added to your SharePoint environment.

But who will be setting the pace in the new year, and what software is worth keeping an eye on? Let’s review some of the most interesting third party products on the market for SharePoint right now.

There seems to be no shortage of SharePoint deployments, and,  thanks to consumerization, iPads floating around most corporate offices these days. The risk of sensitive data being accidentally exposed is enough to make the network security team break into a cold sweat. SharePoint solution provider Colligo’s new iPad app for iPad may be just the thing they need.

Last week was a busy one for conferences, but it was also a busy week for document management. BlackBerry users will be able to have access to Office 365 documents in beta, Colligo offers document management for SharePoint, eFileCabinet heads to the cloud, LibreOffice celebrates its first birthday and Version One partners with Intuitive.

Back to Anaheim and Colligo, with the announcement that Colligo has released an eight-product integrated suite of email and document management applications that covers just about every enterprise SharePoint need conceivable across PCs, tablets, laptops and smartphones, on-premise and in the cloud.

It’s a busy week everywhere, with Oracle and SharePoint’s annual conference. And there’s been a lot of document management too. Xerox has upgraded DocuShare, Oracle’s E-Business Suite has new invoice security, Autonomy has upgraded WorkSite, there’s mobile document management for iPad from NewSoft, while Colligo and NewsGator have teamed up for SharePoint functionality.

This week, with some of the dust beginning to settle on Oracle’s OpenOffice decision, Google is backing LibreOffice with advice and funding, SharePoint seems to be gaining ground in records management, Nuance closes the Equitrac deal, we took a look at document management on-premise or as an SaaS and Office 365 may be on the way.

Things happen quickly in the industry, including changes in employment. Here's a quick and dirty list of the biggest moves that hit our radar over the last couple of weeks:

AvePoint (news, site) bands with Colligo to offer a combined solution for SharePoint email, document and lifecycle management.

It’s been busy release-wise in the document management space with the recent upgrade to EMC’s Captiva, the addition of 3D imaging to JustSystems XMetaL authoring software, Colligo offering a private beta of its Office 365 integration, and two mobile apps from Quickoffice and enprovia that make mobile document management easier.

With rumors around the web multiplying that Office 365 may be released officially sometime at the beginning of June, the number of applications in beta with Office 365 is growing. A number of them were on display at the AIIM/Info360 conference, including one from Colligo (news, site), which is testing its integration with Office 365 in a private beta version.

More records management news from the upcoming AIIM/Info360 conference in Washington next week, again concerning SharePoint and Colligo. Last week, we saw Colligo (news, site) teaming up with FileTrail for records management in SharePoint 2010. This week it has announced that it is also partnering with GimmalSoft, which is looking to get DoD 5015.2 certification for its Compliance Suite.

This week in document management there’s been a couple of extensions for SharePoint, including one built by MetaLogix and a partnership for extending its records management, while HyperOffice has been taking a look at email management. Otherwise, this week there is also a business card reader for iPhone.

With two weeks to go before the AIIM/Info360 conference in Washington, companies are already lining up with announcements to catch the eye. One such announcement is from Colligo (news, site) and FileTrail, which have announced a partnership to provide better records management for SharePoint 2010.

This week, Microsoft’s Dynamic’s CRM gets new document management functionality from Motive’s M-Files, while Google Docs now supports Microsoft Word. Document capture specialist ABBY’s new Recognition Server tackles mass document capture.