Document Storage News & Articles

Social collaboration in the enterprise was intended to facilitate collaboration, knowledge sharing and productivity. According to a new report commissioned by Harmon.ie and conducted by online market research firm uSamp (United Sample), social collaboration tools may be having the reverse effect.

Antivirus vendor AVG (news, site) is broadening its scope by offering cloud storage with its new LiveKive data backup service.

Egnyte (news, site) aims to make it easier to work from home (the pub, or the mall) this holiday season with a new application for Android users.

DigiTech (news, site) and Fujitsu got together to bring, as they say, the simplest possible solution for those small to medium companies trying to wrangle paper documents.

 Cabinet NG (news, site) has announced that it is extending its complete document management software, CNG-SAFE, to Intuit’s Quickbooks accounting software, giving users a number of new features that have not been available to them to date on Intuit’s Developers Network (IDN).

News and events from around the content management industry are coming in faster than we can cover them. But we don't want to let them disappear into the unknown. Here are a few that we didn't get to that may interest you.

Bridgeline Unifies Content Management, Analytics and eCommerce with iAPPS: Offers Bridgeline customers a superior user experience through tighter and deeper product integration, more timely and targeted data for improved decision making and additional functionality for more effective management of web content

JustSystems Bolsters Content Contribution Capabilities in XMetaL Reviewer: Re-enforcing the collaboration and review role as central to document creation, this latest version lets subject matter experts and others contribute directly to the document.

McLaren Software Releases Enterprise Engineer Web Services: Designed for organizations in the Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Life Sciences, Natural Resources, Process Manufacturing Industries, Enterprise Engineer manages the processes around the creation, management and use of engineering documentation.

JurInnov Increases Document Review Efficiency:  Upgrades to Ringtail Legal™ On-Demand have resulted in increased document review productivity and efficiency, more streamlined customer service and an expanded infrastructure to support growth.

Xenos unveils document storage reduction solution for enterprise content management: "A document storage reduction strategy can result in massive recurring cost savings, freeing up valuable IT budget for more important strategic initiatives and staffing."

Did you know: Businesses around the world create more than 7.5 billion documents and that 35% of these documents contain legally sensitive information? Thought so.

In most work environments and organizations, IS departments try to provide a shared place for users to store and interact with files. In a perfect world, every business critical document or file would be located on a centralized file share in a "safe and sound" environment such as a data center. This is a best practice because this critical (and sometimes sensitive) data is kept on redundant servers and is backed up.

However, how do content managers begin when thinking about how to manage unmanaged documents? That is, how does an organization try to handle all the documents and business files located on users' hard drives and shared folders throughout the network?

An upcoming AIIM webinar will aim to steer you and your organization in the right direction with regards to governing unmanaged data and files.

The webinar is on February 25th from 2:00-3:00PM EST and costs nothing to attend. It is hosted by Mark Diamond of Contoural.

Go to their website to register.

One of the major hurdles for those investigating document management systems is the method for populating the system with data. As we all know, data entry is both time-consuming and costly.

PaperHost, the Software-as-a-Service document management system provider, has announced a product that aims to streamline data capture. phUPLOAD allows remote offices or employees to easily transmit scanned documents into the document management system.

US President Obama faces many challenges as he enters the executive office. His new administration is set to tackle the economy and many in the document management industry are looking to them for signs of increased regulation when it comes to records management and retention.

While such a topic may not seem like it would be a priority for the new president, those immersed in the industry know that good knowledge management is key to solving some of the biggest problems facing the country. Like the economic crisis.

StoredIQ Inc., a leading provider of information management and eDiscovery technologies, announced that it’s going beyond their basic eDiscovery solutions to include data stored on backup tapes and other legacy archived media.

The aptly named, StoredIQ Solution for Legacy Archived Media, is built to leverage their eDiscovery solution for the enterprise by addressing and capturing data from all sources, both on- and off-line.