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IBM has released new extensions to it's ECM platform designed to support eDiscovery and help its clients manage compliance better.

The new eDiscovery software integrates with IBM's auto-classification and records management technology as well as it's BPM capabilities.

Forrester Research says that the North American eDiscovery market will grow to almost $4.89 billion by 2011. That's a massive increase over 2006 when it was $1.45 billion. So why wouldn't ECM vendors want a piece of that pie?

Interwoven had decided to get its piece of the eDiscovery pie through the acquisition of on-demand e-discovery provider Discovery Mining Inc.

Oracle has taken it's Universal Content Management solution to a new level by announcing two new components: Universal Online Archive and Email Archive Service. Both of these components are just the latest in the long line of integrated products to support the growing needs of content management.

Autonomy, an enterprise infrastructure software purveyor, has just announced its purchase of ZANTAZ, which specializes in content archiving and e-discovery solutions software.

The pairing is expected to "redefine" information risk management by combining e-discovery, analytics, real-time policy management and consolidated archiving into one system.

In more positive news for ECM vendor Open Text, Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS), the largest of Vermont's 21 utility companies, just implemented the company's Livelink ECM. Livelink will assist in managing CVPS's e-documentation and records for compliance purposes and e-discovery.

You can never quite escape the high school popularity contest, and that's okay as long as you're on the winning team. Gartner, a technology analyst firm with worldwide accolades, just labeled Vamosa a Cool Vendor in Content Management. Vamosa is a market leader in processing, analysis and content migration. This comes hot behind Vox's acquisition of a Shiny Media award for Best Web 2.0 Innovation, kicking off awards season in the enterprise content management world.

Open Text and Sun Microsystems join forces to deliver a powerful e-mail management offering. The solution targets the big boys -- having been designed to serve global organizations facing problems with monitoring and archiving volumes of correspondence -- and is of course fueled by the on-going race to meet regulatory compliance demands.

Everybody likes having a good laugh at a silly mistake. But sometimes little flubs can be costly, especially when they're common practice.

Because of its casual nature and ease of use, e-mail has come to play a major role in business relations and enterprise development. It's also an inadvertent medium for plenty of extra-office faux-pas between clients. That's why the e-mail governance software specialists at MessageGate did some R&D to hone their take on the top 10 e-mail blunders of the year.

A recent AIIM survey on electronic records management tells a story that's all too familiar: in most organizations, managing electronic records still lags far behind paper records management.

That companies generally fail to adequately address e-mail and electronic document retention is news neither to us nor to AIIM.

After five years in review, the Supreme Court amended a series of federal rules surrounding civil litigation. Included among these are an elaboration of existing rules regarding electronic discovery. Discovery is the process by which both sides of a litigation provide supporting evidence in a trial.

The changes have gone into effect as of December 1st and they require companies to keep track of employee e-mail, instant messages and other documents or communication delivered through or stored via the Internet. The industry impact is not subtle and Enterprise CMS vendors are responding quickly.