Document Management Software Articles

KnowledgeTree  (news, site) is joining Open Tech and taking their document management software to thousands of resellers worldwide.

Open Tech is a new channel created by Tech Data, an IT products distributor. It is designed to support open source ISVs, like KnowledgeTree, by helping them market and sell their solutions to a worldwide market.

KnowledgeTree sees this an opportunity to reach out to resellers who spend their time with customers -- SMBs, enterprises, government -- who want to use open source solutions.

“Interest in open source will continue to grow as resellers and end users become more aware of open source solutions like KnowledgeTree’s document management software,” said Tech Data Vice President, Software Product Marketing Stacy Nethercoat. “Through Open Tech, Tech Data will work closely with KnowledgeTree to educate resellers and enable them to profitably deliver these solutions to their customers.”

Are the days coming -- or are they already here -- when we don't have to think of open source separate from proprietary? Do we really need to differentiate between the two? Or can a solution be sold simply on the merits of its functionality alone? Maybe it's too late in the day to have this discussion -- what do you think?

Last week we saw a considerable amount of movement in the document management software industry, not the least of which was the closure of the Xerox –ACS deal. The wheeling-and-dealing continues this week with the acquisition of AmberPoint by Oracle while AIIM and Gartner get back into gear with some research published recently.

Paul Boag wrote an article a while back entitled "The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS" over on Vitamin/Carsonified and I really thought it was a useful item to ponder over as a CMS user. Then I thought, "This totally applies to digital asset management software as well, somebody should write up the same thing for DAM." So here goes (with all due respect to Mr. Boag).

The acquisition by Xerox (news, site) of business process outsourcing giant ACS has been given final approval after a majority of shareholders from both companies gave the go-ahead.

Another acquisition in the electronic medical records (EMR) market, with the buy-out of document imaging and management services Bowman Enterprises by document life cycle solutions provider Diversified Information Technologies.

The financial details of the deal weren't released but last year Diversified's revenue was in the region of US$ 40 million, while Bowman's was close to US$ 6.5.The Bowman management team will be joining Diversified although how it will affect the rest of the company was not explained.

This is the second such acquisition by Diversified in the recent times. In October last year it acquired Active Data Services, a document imaging, print and electronic presentment provider headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Diversified CEO Scott Byers said that the buy-out was part of the company’s plans to extend its footprint in the EMR market where he sees considerable potential for expansion. This indicates that we might be seeing similar moves from the Pennsylvania-based company.

Founded in 1982, Diversified provides document management software for complete document and information lifecycle, including records management solutions for physical and electronic records storage.

Currently targeting Fortune 1000 companies in the financial, insurance, health care and government sectors it has grown to 18 U.S. and three international locations.

Extending its information management and enterprise content management capabilities once again, IBM (news, site)  has just announced the acquisition of Initiate Systems, a provider of data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations.

In the world of Document Management two of the hottest topics are cloud computing and security. Interestingly, however, it seems that according to a report from Forrester we're not taking to cloud storage at all, and we also discovered that data security is increasingly troublesome. Could it be that there's a link between the two?

DigiTech (news, site) and Fujitsu got together to bring, as they say, the simplest possible solution for those small to medium companies trying to wrangle paper documents.

If you swear allegiance to both Internet Explorer and Google Apps, as of March 1st you may find yourself in an uncomfortable predicament, and frankly speaking, we're rather happy about all this. Google's recent decision will effect apps ranging from GMail to Google Docs. Enterprise folks, pay attention.

It’s no secret that the new managed metadata service in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) will be a welcomed addition to the product. What may not be apparent is exactly how this service will benefit your end-users. It will. Here's how.

The latest version of Active Innovation’s document management software comes with a number of upgrades most of which are focused on improving the workflow module and related tasks. These improvements make it more responsive than previous versions (v7.2 and v7.5) and optimize it for higher traffic volumes.

Open source Enterprise CMS and Document Management vendor Nuxeo (news, site) is extending the value of its Nuxeo Connect support and maintenance service with a new product named Nuxeo Studio.

It’s raining cloud solutions, folks. LTech’s (news, site) latest baby is a tool called LTech CloudMove, which automates moving SharePoint documents to the cloud.

Stratify, a California-based division of Iron Mountain (news, site) has acquired Legal Imaging Technologies to beef up its eDiscovery capabilities.

We continue our weekly SMB Tech Rollup this time with the news that many SMBs are getting worried about IT security, but are happily embracing the cloud.

In addition, Microsoft and Intuit are getting together in the cloud, HP and Cisco could be helping SMBs with new pricing arrangements, and Spigit is focusing on better collaboration tools.