Document Management Software News, Reviews

We’re heading into earnings territory at the end of the month, and we’re expecting a good show from OpenText again. We only mention this because OpenText has a habit of introducing something tasty before earnings release. This time is no exception with the announcement that OpenText Tempo Box and OpenText eDOCS DM are available for Windows 8.

Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we've missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can view the full calendar here.)

In November, Microsoft improved the syncing functionality in SkyDrive and said it would continue building and improving to compete with Google Drive. This month, it has added a number of new features that will improve its file sharing abilities as well as some new HTML 5 features to make the whole experience better.

Still no official date for the full release of Office 2013, but Microsoft has really been building up a head of steam. Last month, it announced it was making it available to business users in volume with home users to follow this quarter. And now, it has just announced that it has localized it into three more languages, with interface packs for 13 more.

With the release of a new Forrester Research report, it's apparent we will be looking out for growth in the global tech market of as much as 3.3 percent this year -- with the U.S. market growing 7.5 percent.

A US $10,000 partial refund has been offered to a Box customer after the company failed to set up its file sharing system due to the customer's own firewall incompatibility. 

New Year and new resolutions. Any enterprise that hasn't made its content mobile must surely be looking at this as one of their resolutions for 2013. But if you’re main enterprise content management system is SharePoint, or even if it’s just one of your systems, how do you make it secure when making it mobile?

From cavemen to mobile road warriors, what is different -- and surprisingly the same -- about how people have used technology to share information securely throughout history?

Storage solution company Nexsan has been acquired by the Imation Corporation, a storage and data security company with the goal of improving Imation's operating margins for data storage and security solutions.

If we looked in our crystal ball to predict cultural trends in 2013, we’d see humans bootstrapping, staycations, crafting, couponing, growing beards and lots of bespoke and do-it-your-self-ness. These trends reflect a need for veracity in an unsettled and volatile word. Since technology is invented and implemented by humans, 2013’s technology trends also reflect our yearning for authenticity.

Many of us may be a bit SharePoint crazy, but 2012 was about much more than that. We've seen a multitude of insightful news, opinions and predictions. So here it is -- CMSWire's Top Hits 2012 -- the world beyond SharePoint. 

What would a year in information management be without SharePoint -- any kind of SharePoint? We have to be careful to clarify now as talking about SharePoint could involve any one of four groups of products. In other words, we could be talking about the 2003 version -- and yes it is still being used -- the 2007 and 2010 version, and SharePoint 2013.

In this week’s Mobile App of the Week, we look at the recently released Android app version of Bitcasa, a cloud storage application.

Announcing a completely redesigned version of its management software, OpenERP features a new user interface and an expanded library of open source business apps.

 There were indications at Alfresco’s Devcon in November that it was starting to get cozy with Amazon Web Services. This week, they finally come out and said it -- Alfresco is now in the Amazon cloud.