Enterprise News & Articles

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.

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