Emcworld News & Articles

EMC’s (news, site) presence in the cloud is to be substantially increased with the announcement at EMCWorld that it is making Captiva, Document Sciences, CenterStage and Documentum available on demand on either private clouds, or on public clouds through appropriate service providers.

EMC World is in full swing this week and the news that EMC and Cisco are joining forces to create a new enterprise collaboration platform that combines the world of collaboration, content management and compliance may be music to some ears.

Prior to EMC World, there was a lot of buzz about what might be announced. After Rick Devenuti’s keynote, it is clear that the buzz was not unwarranted. EMC’s (news, site) Information Intelligence Group (IIG) is making a big push into both the cloud and mobile worlds while making some big changes in their collaboration strategy.

Today, EMC (news, site) made several important announcements about their Enterprise Content Management group and its main product Documentum at the EMC World conference in Boston. The most important of which is that the group's new name is now the Information Intelligence Group (IIG).

I spent this past week in Orlando, Florida at EMC World 2009. This year enterprise content management vendor EMC (news, site) put their best foot forward in an effort to make Content Management and Archiving (CMA) attendees -- otherwise known as Documentum users -- feel like they were attending a conference that was addressing their needs.

For the most part, they succeeded. Here's a summary of what transpired.