Enterprise Cms News & Articles

If you’re thinking that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions are primarily for information economy companies, there’s a business model in Boston based on men throwing and bouncing a ball that disagrees. As Jay Wessel, VP of Technology at the Boston Celtics, told a session at the E2 conference in his team’s city on Wednesday: it’s all about simplification, reliability and cost.

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There was no thunder, no lightning and, quite frankly, not even much press when Cloudera co-founder and CEO Mike Olson announced that he’d be handing the company’s leadership reigns over to Tom Reilly. The announcement came yesterday via a blog post on the company’s site. (Not exactly Cloudera style, they generally pre-brief the press when they have news. Could it be that they don’t want to answer any questions just yet?)

In the world of multichannel content delivery and management, partnerships are being formed at an astounding rate. Today, Alfresco and Acquia have announced a new partnership that will see the two open source platforms working together to provide advanced multichannel content management.

It doesn't matter if your industry is highly regulated or not. The Electronic Records Management System (ERMS) implementation is a privilege, not a right. You mustn't take the opportunity for granted.

Microsoft kills linked accounts functionality in Outlook.com

When Microsoft introduced Outlook.com as a Hotmail replacement that was equally good as both a personal and business email service, it also introduced linked accounts. Microsoft, however, has changed its mind about linked accounts and will scrap this functionality at the end of July.

Who is accessing what information in the enterprise

While recent research from digital business researchers IDG shows that there is widespread understanding of the importance and capital value of enterprise data, it also shows that there is a much more limited understanding of the information delivery needs of all enterprise workers, and in particular the information needs of customer-facing employees.

When there’s disruption in an industry, bold statements are made. And in an era of Big Data, we seem to be hearing them all the time.

There was a number of interesting releases this week. Axceler is preparing enterprises for SharePoint 2013, while Adobe has upgraded its EchoSign iOS app and Kofax added analytics to its data capture program. Meanwhile, KonwledgeLake has also upgraded Connect.

If Microsoft was feeling the pressure on its Office division before HP Discover, yesterday’s announcement that HP and Google are teaming up to provide SMB IT in a Box will aggravate the problem. The bottom line is that the new partnership offers small businesses ways to avoid buying Office.

If you’re contemplating a moderate to major automation project, the odds are against success.

HP's Discover conference got under way yesterday with a number of releases that will certainly push it forward over the coming months. Included is the new big data platform that puts to use technologies it has acquired over the past years through the acquisitions of Vertica, ArcSight and Autonomy.

If the run-up to HP’s bi-annual Discover conference in Las Vegas has been quiet, it is possibly because no one really knows what to expect. However, there’s already indications of significant product releases and pointers to HP’s plans for the coming year.

Once upon ago in the 1980s, before Microsoft Windows was invented, before IBM introduced the first PC, and more than a decade before Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web, the first version of Oracle database Software went to market. 

IBM’s DB2 database and MongoDB are getting together. This week, IBM and Mongo’s parent, 10gen, announced collaboration on a new standard to make it easier for companies to implement data-intensive apps for the Web and for mobile devices.