Document Collaboration News & Articles

This week IBM released Content Navigator that enables users to access documents on the go, Alfresco’s cloud offering leaves beta and goes on general release, Accusoft offers a scanner for Android, FileHold and Cirilab Partner for unstructured content analysis, and Australian AsdeqLabs offers repository access through iPad.

Box has made a business of being adaptable. At this stage there must be very few online business applications that it doesn’t integrate with. It works with Google and Salesforce, and today, it has just announced that it will work with LiquidPlanner.

 Whitney Tidmarsh Bouck is excited about Box’s future and its potential to build a smarter enterprise. At info360 today, Whitney presented about how big data is transforming how the cloud, social capabilities, and a web of integrated applications are creating a far more personalized technology experience for the enterprise.

This week, there have been a number of interesting releases, including haromon.ie’s app for document collaboration for SharePoint accessible on iPad, Halcyon has updated its document management software for IBM i, Sertifi is offering free e-signing in Salesforce and Accusoft offers cloud capture for Silverlight.

This week, the question of the timing of the Office 15 release came to the fore again with a leaked document appearing on the Web, while Office 2007 support seems to have been extended for a few months. Perceptive offers a document viewer for iPad with an Android viewer due, Yammer bought document collaboration vendor OneDrum, while DocuWare expanded in Canada.

Two surveys this week shed light on how collaboration, BYOD and cloud computing are perceived across the enterprise.

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.

This is article six in the epic saga exploring my Art of SharePoint Success framework for achieving long-term business benefits from investments in SharePoint based initiatives, (eagle eyed readers will note that last month’s article claimed to be number 6, it was in fact number 5).
There are four elements to the framework:

1. Governance
2. Strategy
3. Architecture
4. Transition

Last month we began our discussion of the Strategy element by posing the tricky question, “What is SharePoint?” I offered my answer which is,  

SharePoint is a set of integrated technologies which provides a platform upon which an organization can build a flexible, long-term information and knowledge management infrastructure.”

We discussed the concepts of SharePoint as a set of integrated technologies, and as a shared infrastructure. This month we explore the idea of SharePoint as an application development platform and examine the implications of deciding to fire up Visual Studio and cut SharePoint code.

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.