Document Management Software News, Reviews

Harmon.ie, the enterprise workflow integration specialists, has debuted a new mobile SharePoint iPad app, and the company promises a full mobile device management offering by the end of June.

OpenText has been busy this week. Leaving aside the US$ 233 million EasyLink buy, it has also announced a partnership with ConceptShare that will make it easier for business users to collaborate, annote and mark up creative work across a while bunch of assets from documents to images to time-based video and web pages.

This week, SpringCM upgraded its document approval software, Amazon released Send to Kindle for Mac, OpenText and BigHand released their first integrated offering, Agility upgrades its Web CMS and NovoDynamics releases device-neutral OCR.

Only a day after Box CEO Aaron Levie said he doesn't see Google Drive as a competitor, Box rolls out major enhancements to its application programming interface and the Box OneCloud App to App Framework.

Now Google's cloud storage service has been unveiled, and is being slowly rolled out to users, what does the tech world think of yet another remote filing tray? The first panic took off minutes into the service's life over rights issues, but now users are keen to check out Drive's features and potential.

Google's much-anticipated cloud storage service has been launched, offering 5GB of free storage to all users, with the message "keep everything, share anything."

Picturepark announced the release of its Dropbox Connector, which integrates its digital asset management software with the popular Dropbox file sharing solution.

This week, Microsoft offered us a new definition of pulling speed when it took Office for Mac SP2 off the shelves, SharePoint and DotNetNuke get close, SpringCM joins the mobile party, Perceptive also gets mobile with Interact and Adobe releases CS6/Extended.

DotNetNuke announces improved SharePoint integration with support for SharePoint 2007 and 2010.

If you were to look at the business pages of any major newspaper in the past couple of days, you’d swear IT was in meltdown. The reactions to the Q1 figures for both IBM and Intel have pushed stock markets down. However, while the stockholders might not be getting what they want -- no tears shed here -- the IT areas that we know, love and like have all performed despite difficult times in Europe.

It’s been all of three weeks since OpenText released something new. We were getting worried. But today, we have news of two new releases: One is for global brand management and the other is an upgrade to OpenText Alchemy, its document management solution for small and medium-sized businesses.

According to Forrester Research, the U.S. information management sector sees 66% of all projects fail, largely as a result of poorly defined processes and communications. The bottom line is that many of the observed project failings look preventable.

This pattern seems to be even more extreme when it comes to Enterprise CMS projects...but why?

Questions that deserve a closer look include:

• Is there a prevailing pattern to Enterprise CMS (ECM) project successes and failures?
• Does the technology platform play a significant role in success patterns?
• How can we avoid some of the most common pitfalls with ECM projects?

To address these topics ECM and document management technology vendor, Nuxeo, has teamed up with AIIM CIO, Laurence Hart, to create a one-hour webinar entitled Why Enterprise CMS Projects Fail.

Laurence Hart has a deep history in the Enterprise CMS and Information Management space having spend the previous two decades in CIO, CTO and Enterprise Architect roles.

If project success is on your mind, join the conversation and register for the April 26th event.  

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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.

The Interact Mobile product family provides remote access to Perceptive Software enterprise CMS solutions.

The next version of Office and SharePoint seem likely to land on servers in the first quarter of next year, making it SharePoint 2013, with a beta due this summer.