Document Mangement News & Articles

February and we just can’t seem to get away from the dual obsessions of hosted solutions and security. Particularly telling in the SMB sector, it looks like these are two areas we are going to be hearing a lot about over the course of the year.

Ohio-based Rescentris has just announced that it is releasing its Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) for the life sciences and pharmaceutical research industries as a SaaS following a six month trial across 25 organizations.

More eDiscovery software, this time from FileTek (news, site). It has just teamed up with Laserfiche (news, site) to create the Trusted Edge Intelligent Email Archive solution for Laserfiche, effectively extending Laserfiche’s enterprise content management functionality by enabling it to tackle unstructured email content.

Lifecycles. They exist in just about every form, from humans to honeybees. But forget biology, let’s talk about the lifecycle of your documents.

That’s right. Everyday you create a new document, review and format it just the way you want. Then you save it as a PDF to give it that clean, polished look. But the lifecycle of the document rarely ends there. There are always revisions and edits, forcing you back into the original document to spend your valuable time fixing margins and tampering with page numbers, just to save it as a PDF again.

Consequently, very few of us would consider a PDF a working document. Until now.

The commercial release of a new application from European enterprise content management services provider iNet Process, will integrate ECM provider KnowledgeTree (news, site) and custom relationship management (CRM) software provider SugarCRM (news, site).

A new partnership between document management software vendor docStar (news, site)  and Fountains Spatial, a provider of geographic information systems(GIS) and services, has resulted in a new suite of products specifically targeted at the public sector that will manage documents according to geographic relevance.

A bit of a mouthful maybe, but what docStar MapConnect will do is to store and manage data and documents according to the geographical areas that the documents refer to.

The SharePoint Las Vegas conference is serious business. There have been and will be some serious announcements made over the course of it. However, there has been and will be announcements that just make you ask “How cool is that?!”

One of those is the beta launch of Capturx Forms for SharePoint from Adapx that will make automatic data ingestion into SharePoint 2010 as simple as signing you name. That’s because this is exactly what it does. It enables users to upload information into SharePoint as it is (manually) written using an electronic pen, via Bluetooth and a cell phone.