Enterprise News & Articles

In a hands-on, sneak peek of Oracle’s upcoming Big Data Appliance due to ship Q1 2012, the company is making available for download today its Oracle NoSQL Database with Enterprise Grade support that was announced in early October. 

The technology represents a shift for Oracle. We’re talking “massive amounts of data” including data maintained by social networks, and other dynamic schemas including web log, plus sensor and smart meter data and data gathered for personalization.

Google's already done so much with its search engine, its app store, its controversial--but popular--social features. Why not throw printing in the mix? Still in its early stages, Google Cloud Print eases the process of printing from mobile devices like an iPad. 

Stirring up the vibrant web publishing game is WoodWing, a company we haven’t mentioned in a while. The last time we spoke of them they were playing around with Alfresco and partnering for Smart Newspapers.

This time they’ve brought to the table the latest version of their flagship product, the somewhat awkward to pronounce Enterprise 6 Content Publishing Platform and they are building new and interesting bridges with their pluggable repository architecture. Let's take a quick look at how they're evolving the web publishing side of our landscape.

Informative Graphics Corporation, a company that develops viewing, annotation and redaction technology, has announced the latest version of its Brava software suite for multi-format viewing, annotation and secure content delivery.

We had an opportunity to talk with IGC CEO, Gary Heath about Brava and their work within the records management industry.

CMS Watch has a pretty interesting content management vendor map (see link below), laid out in the format of a subway map, which makes for intriguing viewing. The diagram is overtly enterprise-oriented, and links vendors according to their scope of operations across various content management arenas like Enterprise CMS, email archiving, DAM, XML management, etc.

It’s interesting to note that there are five main ‘Hubs’ — extending the subway metaphor — of vendors who can provide pretty much everything. Microsoft, IBM, OpenText, EMC and Oracle.

Finding good hosting can always be a pain if you don’t know where to go. But there is one thing you should know — when you’re in the search for a hosting company, there is something that you need to look for, particularly if you want to install a CMS.

That thing is Fantastico De Luxe. Does your hosting company offer Fantastico?

Enterprise info management firm Datawatch has announced that Monarch|RMS, its hosted report mining and analytics offering, is now integrated in IBM’s DB2 Content Manager OnDemand.

Monarch|RMS enables clients to view statistics relevant to their sites from remote locations so they can make more expedient decisions about what’s working and what isn’t. It does this by converting existing reports in a given CMOD system into hosted, filterable and more pliant data.

Clients can filter data most relevant to themselves and even perform multidimensional cube (OLAP-style) analysis. And at will, they can convert reports into tables, charts, graphs or spreadsheets.

Data can also be exported to templates, spreadsheets and even presentations in XML form.

You — the tech guy! — could look like the coolest kid in the boardroom.

Discover the magic at the Datawatch website.

For years the war for the enterprise has raged between Microsoft and Java with the heaviest battles occurring since the inception of .Net. However, recent research indicated that .Net is now coming out on the winning team.

This news is from Info-Tech Research Group - an IT research and advisory firm. According to an article on InfoWorld, Info-Tech’s research indicates that in a survey of over 1,850 organizations of all sizes and industries: .Net is the choice over Java most often.

The report indicates that 12 percent of the surveyed companies focus exclusively on .Net, while only 3 percent are exclusively Java. That’s a big difference and should spark some lively debate in the Java community.

To throw the Java community a bone, Info-Tech compares Java to legacy code in that it will always be around just like the infamous Cobol. Not sure if that’s a postive thing or not.

The report (which is not sponsored so it should be vendor neutral) is entitled It’s Official: .Net Roasts Java’s Beans and is available for a fee on the InfoTech site.

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.

Canon, a familiar word in the digital imaging space, has joined forces with New Hampshire-based eCopy to bring enterprise document management to Canon India. The eCopy ShareScan Open Platform enables users to extend the capabilities of Canon’s black and white or color digital multi-functional devices. With eCopy the devices can act as a bridge, converting volumes of paper to high-resolution electronic copies — bridging document workflows and creating integration points with back office systems.

In response to the twin concerns of business process efficiency and business records compliance, HP is teaming up with Vignette to deliver what they are calling the most complete Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solution available today.

Gartner, everyone’s favourite research firm, has read the ECM tea leaves and expects its global market to grow at a rate of 12 percent per year. If that growth rate holds true, by 2010 the worldwide market for content management will be valued at a whopping US$ 4.2 billion.

Little more than six weeks after the release of SamePage 3.1, eTouch announced the availability of SamePage 3.2 at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The latest release of the Enterprise Wiki solution rounds a number of corners and simplifies integration of 3rd party Web 2.0 services.

Everybody’s got a problem staying up-to-date with whatever still-wet ink on paper has just been printed to alleviate (or fuel?) an ongoing compliance crisis. Even life science companies have trouble keeping the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) happy, and that’s why they’ve enlisted the aid of ECM goliath Open Text.

Hot on the heels of Intel’s SuiteTwo announcement, Blogtronix has unveiled an update of their enterprise collaboration and communication platform. This release boasts expanded features for blogging, wikis, document management, extensive personal and corporate profiling, and social networking.