Document Management Software News, Reviews

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There have been a number of interesting announcements this week in the document management space. Nuxeo Drive for content synchronization was released, Adobe EchoSign has upgraded its Salesforce offering to v13, while Alfresco is now offering users a single sign-on to cloud services. M-Files has also announced nearly US$ 8 million in Series A funding. 

Over the past few years there has been an increasing move towards providing products for specific verticals. The pace of specialization has been increasing. The latest vendor to provide such product is Box, which just this week has announced a number of new apps for the healthcare vertical.

This week there has been a lot of talk about SharePoint and while there are as many opinions as there are use cases, SmartLogic in a new paper says it could be a lot better. Elsewhere, newbie SkyKick has launched its Application Suite, while DocPath has integrated its document management system with Dynamics AX.

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How can you find the Ideal Buyer? Prospect finder Leadspace says that it has developed the first-of-its-kind automatic modeling of Ideal Buyer Profiles by analyzing Big Data.

The US$ 10.4 billion acquisition of UK-based Autonomy by US-based HP has been one of the most discussed events in the industry over the past 18 months. Unfortunately, the discussion has focused largely on allegations of corporate malpractices. Now that the acquisition is now a done deal, we decided to find out what exactly HP is going to do with Autonomy in the coming years and spoke to Autonomy General Manager, Robert Youngjohns.

 Box's latest PC-based feature update allows users to create and edit documents within the cloud, avoiding the need for discrete downloads, juggling apps and version conflicts. 

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Based on simple math, we all know that 1+1=2. This is a simple concept that we learn very early in life. When it comes to SharePoint though, when you consider the tools available to you, you have a huge advantage of being able to use more than one tool, combined together, to create an outcome that is far greater than 2.  

Grab some popcorn. Microsoft has thrown down the proverbial gauntlet for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), upgrading its Azure cloud service for direct competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

The latest vendor to upgrade its products in an effort to keep up with the ever changing face of SharePoint is Colligo, which has just announced the release of Email Manager v6.0 and Colligo Briefcase v6.0.

Online storage service Dropbox has been trying, with limited success, to target its offerings at businesses. Now, the company is moving forward on that front, with a name change for its business service and the addition of single sign-on (SSO) capability.

There were a number of interesting releases in the document management space that are definitely worth a look. Among them are the new Service Pack 2 beta releases for Office and SharePoint 2010, WatchDox apps for mobile-desktop collaboration and sharing, and Docstocs new link-up to the Microsoft store. We also revisited the paperless office through EchoSign.

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