Enterprise Cms News & Articles

While clouds are on every enterprise’s horizon, they’re mostly internal clouds. That’s a key finding in an annual study conducted by 451 Research about the state of cloud computing for businesses. 

The information world is clamoring for better access to information of all types. Given that what comes out of the delivery pipeline depends on the ability of functions across the entire content life cycle -- design, authoring, identification, management and delivery -- to work efficiently, significant shortfall in any function is cause for concern. 

Whether or not companies plan to upgrade to SharePoint 2013, HiSoftware has launched version 3.0 of its Security Sheriff SP tool for locking down sensitive documents in any SharePoint configuration.

I am increasingly interested these days in solutions that meet industry-specific requirements. Vertical solutions are compelling because they focus on solving a critical pain point or gaining a competitive advantage within an industry. 

Deal of the year and sign of the times, Dell has announced that it is to go private in a US$ 24.4 billion deal that sees the company partially back in the hands of founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell, and partially in the hands of technology investment firm Silver Lake.

Things are heating up in the document management space. This week, we see Nuxeo setting up its stall for the coming year, vendors and enterprises are gearing up for the release of SharePoint 2013, Micro Strategies connects SharePoint and IBM Connections and Atiz introduces a mobile scanner.

In the past week, Microsoft released a new version of Office 2013 and a new home subscription version of Office 365. The next big release will be the general release of SharePoint 2013, even if we still don’t know when. To help companies that are planning to move to SharePoint 2013, or migrate from an earlier version, Dell has put together a few tasks that should get you into the right planning mode.

IBM has announced the acquisition of Star Analytics, which in turn will give IBM more specialized and more efficient big data collection and analytics tools. 

While stock market news isn't something that usually gets us excited, the sharp slide in the price of VMware shares warrant attention.

Watson is going to college. That is, IBM’s Watson, as in the digital youngster that showed carbon-based Jeopardy champions you don’t need to be human to provide answers in the form of questions -- and to win on that venerable quiz show.

Earlier in the month former Alfresco CEO John Powell outlined a change in the business direction of Alfresco that will take it to and IPO in US and a wider global presence. Today, Doug Dennerline announced the acquisition of Germany-based WeWebU that will expand its enterprise portfolio for content management.

I admit to criticizing my “alma mater” PwC for much of their thought "leadership" over the last years. Today, I come to praise PwC, not to bury it.

It seems as if every year IBM Connect always throws in some interesting items -- and this year is no different. In what almost appears to be a timed response to Oracle’s outline of its cloud strategy, IBM has given its SmartCloud a lot of attention, including a great big dollop of SAP love.

Microsoft has announced the release of Office 365 Home Premium, the consumer based cloud alternative to the Microsoft Office suite.

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