Document Management Software News, Reviews

Despite all the changes across the information management industry, the management of content still remains a core goal. According to Gartner’s recently released Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), demand for Enterprise CMS continues to grow as enterprises struggle to feed business applications with appropriate content.

One of the advantages that cloud technologies have afforded us is the ability to share and access content without having to create more than one copy. So you’d think there would be a lot less document duplication in the enterprise. But according to a new report from Symantec, you’d be wrong.

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Big Blue released its Q3 numbers last night and it makes for grim reading. IBM revenues slipped below analysts' expectation as poor economic conditions around the world hit profits in American global corporations.

This week in the document management world, Alfresco is back in the news with the announcement of a new integration by Ixxus to add Solr faceted search to Alfresco 4, Hyland is making its OnBase application more readily accessible through mobile devices, Lexmark rebrands Brainware and SealPath secures documents in the cloud.

Accellion is updating its mobile file sharing solution. The Palo Alto, California-based company is enhancing its offering to increase ease-of-use and flexibility, and to provide more security controls. 

While the upgrade to Xerox’s document review platform is interesting from a functionality point of view, it's even more interesting from an industry perspective because it shows the company's ongoing commitment to extending and building its document management capabilities.
 

 Microsoft announced that Office 2013  has hit the Release to Manufacturing milestone, which sets the company up for an upgrade smorgasbord. Will users look to upgrade their whole PC, their OS, or their Office applications in the coming months, or all three? 

We haven’t heard much lately from Alfresco about its community edition, but this week that’s all changed. It has just released v4.2 of the Community Edition, the first since v4.0, which comes with a whole pile of improvements including better Google Docs integration.

Aaron Levie is on a mission. The Box co-founder and CEO has a dream: he wants workers everywhere to have hassle-free access to the documents and other content they need to do great work from anywhere, at any time, using any computer or mobile device.  

Document sharing service Dropbox is improving the photo viewing experience for mobile phone browsers.

Information management solutions vendor MetaVis Technologies is making no bones about who is the target demographic for its new Information Manager Power User Edition. The tool is designed to allow SharePoint “power users” to migrate and classify data created and stored in SharePoint (including SharePoint 2013) and Office365.

Box unveiled what it calls a “bigger, better, all-new Box experience” at its BoxWorks conference in San Francisco, and the experience includes some social media features.

It may have been a holiday weekend, but it’s still busy in the document management world. Google has just released GSA 7.0, which makes document search and retrieval a lot easier, WatchDox has released a SharePoint application, Perceptive is offering an e-signing tool, and Central Desktop has introduced single sign-in.

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