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In recent months Amazon has done a lot of tweaking to its services as Google and Microsoft attempt to push it off the top spot as storage provider. This week, it has tweaked a little bit more, this time by adding file sync to its Cloud Drive.

Open source CMS provider Nuxeo has debuted native mobile apps on iOS and Android devices, and developers now have access to tools for building feature specific hybrid apps of their own.

Open Source is sexy in a cloudy, big data world, but if you want your commercial-grade Hadoop distribution to be speedy, reliable and secure, you’ll be better off parting with a few dollars and buying a proprietary solution like ours.

If you think that talking about SharePoint migration challenges is like a broken record, think again. Not only are their new challenges with each new release of SharePoint, but migration isn’t just a one-time activity. Smart organizations know it’s an ongoing task. But more importantly, with the last release of Office 365, SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013, it’s even more critical to have a good migration strategy. Let me tell you why.

It may have been a holiday weekend in some places, but it was still busy in the document management space. This week we took a look at the paperless office and records management, Accusoft upgraded Content Connect to v7, AvePoint improved governance in SharePoint online, while Zoho integrated new email capabilities with its CRM app.

In early January, Gartner predicted that IT spending would bounce back this year. Now, with the benefit of full figures for 2012 and a clearer idea of where the market is going, it is revising its spending predictions with spending on mobile devices the big winner.

Workers waste inordinate amounts of time searching for files and even working on the wrong documents, a major headache for enterprises everywhere. Document collaboration has a new ally in Perforce Commons, a fine tuned version control system.

The paperless office appears further away than ever before. According to recent research from AIIM we are using more paper records than ever before, there are still significant problems capturing and storing information for records and, even worse, senior management is sticking its head in the sand and ignoring the inherent risks in these practices.

There are people who have the time and talent necessary to stare at columns and rows of data, plug in variables and use sophisticated software tools to help them understand and solve problems and visualize results.

And there are people who don’t.

Collaborative task management software provider Comindware is now offering Tracker, a solution designed to coordinate, automate and track multiple processes from multiple workflows in a unified manner.

According to a new report, marketing departments are only supplying 30 percent of the leads that Sales departments need – and sales is spending a lot of time trying to qualify those leads as likely wins. Can Big Data come to the rescue?  

An overwhelming 90 percent of employees used their personal smartphones for work-related purposes in the past year, but only 46 percent think their companies are prepared for Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) issues. That disconnect is one of the findings in a new report about the realities of BYOD.

Nearly 800 North Americans responded to the CMSWire 2013 Salary Survey, and we've captured summary data and open ended questions to present a detailed story about our readership and what is happening in the workplace in our three sectors of Customer & Web Experience, Social Business and Information Management. 

We knew yesterday’s annual meeting of the HP board was going to be instructive. After the botched Autonomy deal and three CEOs in as many years, observers were watching closely to see what investors would do with their first chance to express their opinions since the whole Autonomy accountancy malpractice claim and counter claim. At the end of the meeting, the board remains in place and it will be business as usual -- for a few weeks anyway.

Mobile file sharing technology provider Accellion is extending its kitepoint external file sharing tool to provide mobile users with secure access to content in enterprise content management (ECM) systems.