Document Management Software News, Reviews

It seems that no matter where users are working, they want Microsoft Office. At the beginning of the year, there was lots of buzz about Microsoft Office on the iPad. Now, rumors are swirling about Android. An unnamed source is saying that the popular office productivity suite will make its official appearance on iOS and Android devices by the end of the year.

If you use Documentum for your enterprise content management platform -- or SharePoint, Alfresco, Oracle, or maybe a mix of these -- then you might be interested in having a look at Generis CARA. CARA is a browser-based document management interface that works with both CMIS and repository specific extensions and it's a pretty slick tool. Let's take a look.

Online file sharing and collaboration sevice Box has a host of new updates aimed firmly at major enterprise users. From new admin tools to an improved license agreement, they will improve the service's appeal to IT admins and department purse holders.

SharePoint users can connect to their Picturepark DAM solution without leaving their application, a Forrester researcher looks at the future of DAM, a library science student shares a detailed DAM primer and North Plains and Xinet host a webinar soon.

Nuance has announced a new update to its PDF converter software, and the Enterprise 8 version is available now with new real-time collaboration tools like chat and simultaneous editing. 

As an avid DropBox and Box user, I was a little hesitant to add to Google Drive to my list of document sharing. But after downloading Google Drive for Mac this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see how easy managing Google Docs is now. Don’t get me wrong -- it’s not like opening Google Docs from my desktop was that hard -- but the fact that I was able to manage Dropbox files from within my Macbook’s Finder window made it a little more laborious than I felt it needed to be. Now, I can gain access to, save and manage Google Docs from within Finder.

It’s been busy enough this week, especially with the CODiE awards where SpringCM has a lot to shout about, while DocuLex has upgraded Archive Studio, eFileCabinet has entered a new partnership and Gartner has identified what it considers the coolest content management vendors on the planet.

Usually it’s the Monday of any given vendor conference that the big news gets released. In the case of EMC, it was the partner conference yesterday in Las Vegas (Sunday) that set the tone for a conference that looks set to be full of interesting nuggets. Two big things came out of it yesterday, both of them issues where many people wanted to see what EMC would say.

In the 2012 CODiE Awards for the Business Software Industry, SpringCM, Pervasive Software, Citrix Online and Coverity Inc. get recognized.

This week, we look at the Q2 2012 Forrester Wave Digital Asset Management for Customer Experience report, what went down at the Henry Stewart DAM event in New York, a partnership between ADAM Software and ConceptShare, how to measure maturity in the young DAM marketplace and a new white paper from Widen.

This week there’s been a number of items, including the partnership between M-Files and goVirtualOffice for NetSuite Integration, Laserfiche has released an app for iPad, Zoho continues to offer social capabilities, Metalogix releases SharePoint Content Manager and Hannon Hill releases Cascade v7.0.

Metalogix Software has released a solution that makes it faster and more efficient to manage content in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The new solution, Content Manager, enhances SharePoint with the ability to make bulk edits to metadata and a ribbon that makes it easier for users to have access to advanced features such as taxonomy.

It seems like only yesterday that we were shouting about the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010. In fact, it is just about two years ago (May 12, 2010) that it was released. And with a mere two years on the market, we’re starting to shout about the release of the next edition -- SharePoint 15.

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.

Every year, the TechStars Boston Demo Day produces some interesting new companies. This year was no exception. One of the companies that particularly caught our eye was DocTrackr, which offers a service that enables users keep track of their documents wherever they may be. Hence the name DocTrackr.