Document Collaboration News & Articles

ownCloud, an open source file-sharing project, announced that former SUSE and Novell executive, Markus Rex, will be joining the company as CEO and CTO. Rex and Frank Karlitschek, ownCloud  founder, will work together on the new commercial entity they formed around the project.

CMSWire's poll this month asked what your top priority was for the cloud, and while some responded that they have no plans at all, document sharing and collaboration were mentioned as the top reason to go to the cloud.

Since June, when harmon.ie announced the release of harmon.ie 3.0 for SharePoint, being social at work became a lot easier for Outlook Exchange users. Now harmon.ie is bringing social business to Lotus Notes.

Adobe has announced enhancements to its service that helps users send large files without clogging their email systems, Adobe SendNow. The latest updates make the software easier use and may extend the appeal of the product.

The first day of Nuxeoworld and the company confirmed that it will be releasing version 5.5 the middle of next month with a whole pile of features that aim to make document management and collaboration a lot more social.

Continuing a string of upgrades that came as recent as this past June, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider Central Desktop announced today its latest set of improvements, adding professional project management tools to its namesake technology. 

Virtual computing solutions provider Citrix has been focused on expanding its cloud portfolio. Earlier this year, it acquired Cloud.com, now it adds ShareFile to the family.

A busy week in the document management space. The big event this week was the announcement by Cisco that it will buy Versly, while QuickOffice is still upgrading TouchPad capabilities. Adobe offers PDF functionality for iPad, and Work upgraded its Office 365 offering. DocSTAR and Kyocera integrated for better cloud document management.

Huddle (news, site) has entered in the hybrid cloud space by offering a private cloud version of its enterprise collaboration platform. It's just what the government ordered.

Huddle (news, site) calls itself the "#1 alternative to SharePoint in the cloud". It doesn't compare apples to apples with the entire SharePoint platform, but it does offer a user friendly alternative to SharePoint for enterprise collaboration and basic document management.

Cisco (news, site) announces today some enhancements to its enterprise collaboration solution, Cisco Quad, along with its availability as a hosted managed service.

Alfresco (news, site) offers an enterprise content management solution aimed at large enterprises (hence the word enterprise), but it decided it was missing a key segment of the market -- departments and SMBs. Today, they resolve this with the addition of a new subscription offering -- Alfresco Team. And it has some new functionality you won't currently find anywhere else.

Cloud-based social collaboration platform Central Desktop (news, site) has recently added new features to its collaborative suite. New features include presence detection and polling, which will enhance the way collaborators engage with each other online.

It's been said to be the alternative to SharePoint in the UK, especially since it has a new single pricing agreement with the UK government. Whether that's really true or not, Huddle's (news, site) adoption rates are high, and it has added a new 100% adoption guarantee to back it up.

This week, Forrester answers one of the questions we have been looking at for some time, notably, whether enterprises are taking to MS Office alternatives; Cabinet NG releases v7.0 of CNG-SAFE; Workshare releases an upgrade to its collaboration solution Workshare Compare; eGistics adds to its cloud storage capabilities and CloudMagic searches Gmail and Google Docs.