Ecm News & Articles

Enterprise document management firm ColumbiaSoft is rolling out a series of collaboration tools fitted especially for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms.

A new study released by Avanade, Inc., a global IT firm, reveals that fewer than half of Stateside and Canadian businesses — 45 and 49 percent, respectively — are satisfied with the results of their existing collaborative and communication technologies.

These include intranet solutions, email and video conferencing services.

ECM goliath Open Text has just announced the development of a fledgling integrated solution with Microsoft. The pair hope to build an offering for matter lifecycle management and practice support, targeting global law firms.

To what degree can web 2.0 be applied to the world of enterprise information management? To push its latest whitepaper and collaborative info management solution, Hyperwave begs the question.

Interwoven has deep legal roots, having set foundations in the realm of law as early as 2004, if not earlier.

This, and the company’s history in the ECM realm, are two good reasons why Salans, an international law firm, has chosen Interwoven to assist in its One Firm, One Approach Initiative.

Anytime a software company announces a complete revision of its flagship product, its a momentous occasion for existing customers. When that company is EMC and the product in question is Documentum, then the entire industry stands up to take notice.

Before everyone gets swept up in the pomp and circumstance, however, let’s keep a few things in mind.

Following suit in an industry currently tingling with mergers, acquisitions and strategic liaisons, Datum International, Ltd. and Pathway One Plc. have signed a mutual distribution agreement for their KnowledgeWorker and Openshare applications, strengthening the positions of both companies within the enterprise CMS space.

We’ve said for awhile now that the European CMS market is cluttered with a menagerie of small and mid-sized contenders. Overall, however, it awaits the arrival of a real rallying gem.

To gauge whether a vendor meets that higher call, we can typically look at the impact it’s made on both enterprise and education.

Enterprise-wise, Ireland-based ECM firm TERMINALFOUR showed some classy color with Site Manager 5.3. And now it’s making waves in the latter category, too.

Global enterprise CMS player Interwoven has announced its financial results for the three and six months ending June 30, 2007. Total revenues for the six months preceding July hit US$ 107.3 million, a 12 percent increase from US$ 95.5 million in the same period last year.

ECM provider Open Text has announced the availability of an Office Business Application for accessing, and managing, customer information.

Built on the ‘07 Microsoft Office system for commercial availability, the Livelink ECM — Customer Information Management tool provides a complete view of all the information associated with a customer, from any typically-utilized content repository.

Colorado-based OpenLogic, an enterprise open source solutions vendor, has just announced the availability of OpenLogic Discovery, a software tool that helps companies take inventory of open source software already installed on their computer systems.

That’s right, already installed. Do you know what’s sitting on your systems?

Stargazers, now’s your opportunity to seek higher ground. Orion Technology just announced a partnership with the aptly-named TOWER, a global player in the Enterprise CMS market, catering to government and other regulated industries.

A new report by Dublin, Ireland-based Research and Markets finds that the enterprise content management market will hit US$3.5 billion by 2012 if it continues to grow the way it has been.

At the recent National Education Computing Conference in Atlanta, Open Text Corp announced the release of FirstClass Colaboration Suite 9.0.

This is the latest version of its integrated communications and collaboration software for businesses and learning organizations.

Chain Reaction Commerce, an ecommerce shopping cart maker and purveyor of CRE Loaded, a Web store application, are releasing the CRE Content Director. The Content Director is an add-on system that revs the traditional CRE Loaded with the document management features of a CMS.

And it all comes in a tidy little box.