Email News & Articles

Document management software vendor DocuLex (news, site) continues to develop its email offering, this time with enhanced security that allows WebSearch, its email archiving and document management solution, to detect unauthorized and inappropriate content.

Data culling is a long, arduous and often very expensive task. But it has to be done, particularly so for companies with large eDiscovery or compliance responsibilities.

With this in mind, eMag Solutions, a Georgia-based data management and electronic discovery services provider, has just upgraded its hosted enterprise software suite.

eMag Vu v3.0 now comes with an enterprise scalable email, de-duplication, reconstitution and ingestion solution.

Something’s stirring in the UK document management industry. This time it comes in the form of Cheshire-based Version One (news, site) which has just announced that it is setting up shop in Florida to take on the US industry.

The move comes hot on the heels of recent figures that show the document and imaging software company has announced a rise in pre-tax profits of UK£ 1.2 million to UK£ 1.32 million to the end of March.

Spearheading the expansion will be Lynn Munns, general manager of Version One UK, who is moving stateside next month.

Beehive (news, site) was launched in October last year to give Oracle some leverage in the booming collaboration tools market. What does its big update have to offer to make you look away from the other solutions on the market?

We've met the enemy and he is us.

It’s a fact, knowledge workers not only produce much of their tangible intellectual work via e-mail, but also implicitly form useful social networks, collaborate with geographically dispersed colleagues, and create organizational knowledge through the daily exchange of hundreds of e-mails.

As useful and necessary as e-mail is, it stills overwhelms us and costs businesses US$ 900 billion a year in lost productivity, according to research by New York analyst firm Basex.

Add to that the persistent loss of actionable knowledge -- because it's buried deep inside mail folders -- and you have yourself a nice little problem.

What can one do about this?

The brains at MarkLogic (news, site) think they have answers. And they are holding a webinar next Thursday to share them. The event is entitled: Reducing Information Overload: Turn Email into an Asset and will run Thursday, April 30th at 2pm ET / 11am PT.

What you will learn:

• How the corporate e-mail glut continues to cost businesses time and money 
• How to re-capture technical expertise for the entire organization
• How MarkMail -- an enterprise infrastructure tool -- is transforming the way we do e-mail archiving, e-mail search and knowledge management
• How Mark Logic uses MarkMail to eliminate chronic re-creation of repetitive knowledge, reduce unnecessary interruptions, and easily create an interactive knowledge system

Better Management of Email-borne Knowledge

MarkLogic's public MarkMail project celebrated its one year anniversary this past December. They set up this demo of the technology to give the public an accessible view into what they were capable of. To date they've cataloged over 7,000 public mailing lists with more than 37 million email messages, and the site is getting over a million unique visitors per month.

The idea is that email needs to be better leveraged. The company aims to deliver what Basex calls Friction Free Knowledge Sharing. With MarkMail email is the content source, allowing your organization to turn the "by-product of daily work into organizational knowledge."

Ready to learn more? Register today.

Gartner talks to a lot of organizations about content management and they are finding that in this tough economic climate clients aren't sure where to go with enterprise content management or how to even get started on the road without breaking the piggy bank wide open.

So they have offered a little advice in the form of five tactical considerations that should provide immediate impact and benefits for your organization in 2009. None are surprising, all will have an impact.

A few years enterprise content management vendors were focused on eDiscovery as the predominant driver for building new solutions. And although that driver hasn't gone anywhere, it's not taking center stage these days.

At least not according to EMC (news,site). What's rising to the top of needs pile is IT efficiency -- such as storage and backup costs. So what has EMC done to help fill this new need without forgetting about the old one? They have created a new family of products and solutions called SourceOne. And it all starts with that blasted email we all hate to love.

Stanford University is working on developing a new enterprise 2.0 e-mail system based on semantics. Traditional e-mail centers need specific e-mail addresses, group lists, or the like. But SEAmail (Semantic E-mail Addressing) seeks to eliminate this need by pulling e-mail addresses from large databases based on search criteria and a semantic understanding of those criteria in comparison with the databases.

Chances are you are one of the 100 million users of Gmail. Chances are you store stuff on there because you can get to it no matter what machine you are accessing the web with. Novel chapters, presentation notes, report data, etc.

But you’re on a plane, or in a car, or doing the great search for the American Dream via Greyhound and you don’t have web access. Or the bandwidth you can access is unreliable. Spotty. Intermittent. Oh the humanity!

Groupwise 8 is now available via Novell. The release aims to boosts personal productivity with a customizable dashboard that allows users to interact with traditional and Web 2.0. tools, from e-mail to blogs. It also provides a flexible and reliable tool on a platform that is able to run on multiple servers and clients -- including Windows, Linux, Mac and the Web.

Version One, a provider of document management and imaging software solutions, was named E-mail Product of the Year 2008 (for the second year in a row) at the Document Manager (DM) Awards 2008. DbMail, an automated e-mail delivery service, was the product that helped win the award for Version One.

A recent survey of 2387 business decision makers who attended the first day of the Storage Expo held by ONStor revealed some interesting truths about the management of content in the UK.

Zoho, a Web-hosted Microsoft Office and Google competitor, has announced offline support for their Zoho Mail product. Zoho Mail joins Zoho Writer — the company’s word processing product — in using (ironically enough) Google Gears for offline support and access.

By comparison, Google has yet to implement any type of offline access to their Web-hosted email product, Gmail. Zoho, in choosing to utilize Google’s own offline-enabling engine, beat the search giant to the punch in an effort to remain competitive in the space.

Palo Alto Software Inc., an Oregon-based company best known for their business plan software, released their first Software-as-a-Service product in hopes to solve all the world’s email bottlenecking troubles for cheap.

Ever wanted to stay on top of Google search results in an easy and manageable way? Google has long offered its users the ability to subscribe to search results via email. The company has recently announced its intention to soon offer search results via RSS feeds as well. It will be an extension of Google Alerts.