Eim News & Articles

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.

Having only just entered the New Year, HP is already making news with indications that it may drop business units that are not performing, while the US Justice Department formally began investigations into Autonomy.

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. 

Contributor Virginia Backaitis has been following some of the companies she covers since their inception. This perspective adds a depth and level of understanding to her articles, which make following enterprise content management as addictive as following your favorite show. Read what Virginia had to say about the field in this interview.

It's been a busy year in the world of SharePoint. From the release of SharePoint 2013 to the SharePoint 2012 conference, we've covered a lot of news here on CMSWire. As a little holiday treat, here are the top 20 SharePoint articles of the year.

When Symon Garfield isn't working, he's working. Whether through his 20 part series "The Art of SharePoint Success" or his current pursuit of a Doctorate of Business Administration, knowledge management is never far from his mind. Symon took some time out of his busy schedule to answer a few of our questions.

It’s been a busy year in the information management space. With the year fast coming to a close we note a time of substantial change across the entire landscape which shows the increasing importance of social business, the lack-luster performance of the enterprise content management space and, like everywhere else, an increasingly speedy move to the cloud.

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

One final acquisition for the year -- open source cloud management vendor, Red Hat has announced that it has agreed to buy enterprise cloud management vendor ManageIQ for US$ 104 million in cash. It has also announced a hike in revenues of 18 percent in Q3.

Some say that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems are at their best when they are boring.

I respectfully disagree.

 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.

It’s Christmas so a lot of people will be expecting iPads, even if it’s only one of the older versions. While that’s all well and good, what will really make this Christmas special are the apps that go with it. One of the biggest problems to date has been the inability to use Office and Office documents on the iPad. This week however, Google has announced that it will be making Office users’ Christmas dreams come true with iPad access.