Document Collaboration News & Articles

Following the acquisition of StreamOnce, which was announced in the Q1 earnings at the end of April, Jive Software has already started releasing products around the buy. Today, it announces the release of StreamOnce that ultimately will bring a whole pile of major business applications into a single place.

Online apps are becoming a big craze, particularly with the all-out war between Google Apps and Microsoft’s Office 365. But Zoho has been in the game for quite a while, reporting over six million users, and the company is now out with version 3.0 of its Docs online document management application. The enhancements focus on file sharing and collaboration, providing tighter integration across its office productivity apps.  

Google looked to the enterprise this week with a couple of updates intended to make administrator's and document collaborator's lives a little easier.

Another milestone in the gradual upgrade of Office 365 -- SharePoint Online is finally out of preview. Although Microsoft doesn’t say when users will be able to get the new version, it does say that it will be soon and that users will be given notice of four weeks before they have to upgrade.

Since Box confirmed at the beginning of this year that it will go public next year, it has really been loading up on new abilities and functions. The latest one, announced just today, sees it entering a partnership with cloud platform and app developer GoodData to provide an app that enables Box users to analyze the way they are using their accounts.

Over the past few years there has been an increasing move towards providing products for specific verticals. The pace of specialization has been increasing. The latest vendor to provide such product is Box, which just this week has announced a number of new apps for the healthcare vertical.

Cloud-based document sharing provider, Box and social business software provider Jive, have released Box for Jive, which enables users to manage and share content across both platforms.

 Box's latest PC-based feature update allows users to create and edit documents within the cloud, avoiding the need for discrete downloads, juggling apps and version conflicts. 

The latest vendor to upgrade its products in an effort to keep up with the ever changing face of SharePoint is Colligo, which has just announced the release of Email Manager v6.0 and Colligo Briefcase v6.0.

Since the upgrade of Office 365, we've seen our fair share of commentaries and criticisms of SharePoint Online. But what about Microsoft? What does it think the strong points are? In a recent blog post, Mark Kashman, a Senior Product Manager on the SharePoint team, outlined his thoughts.

Online project management software provider, Wrike has announced a new feature for its Live Editor that allows users to track document changes as they happen.

It may have been a holiday weekend in some places, but it was still busy in the document management space. This week we took a look at the paperless office and records management, Accusoft upgraded Content Connect to v7, AvePoint improved governance in SharePoint online, while Zoho integrated new email capabilities with its CRM app.

Workers waste inordinate amounts of time searching for files and even working on the wrong documents, a major headache for enterprises everywhere. Document collaboration has a new ally in Perforce Commons, a fine tuned version control system.

Mobile file sharing technology provider Accellion is extending its kitepoint external file sharing tool to provide mobile users with secure access to content in enterprise content management (ECM) systems.

 Newly launched, mobile-focused, email manager and productivity boosting service Mailbox has joined forces with Dropbox to provide a more rounded, yet somehow boxier, service. Expect the move to help improve and scale the Mailbox side of the offering.