Filenet News & Articles

Last month, IBM (news, site) announced that it was getting ready to launch Blueworks Live, its rebranded and upgraded version of Blueprint. The new launch will enable users with the ability to create ‘lite’ BPM apps. Having come out of beta this week, Blueworks Live is now on general release.

Welcome to the September installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Effective business decisions depend on having the right information at the right time. The use of content management systems across enterprises to manage information suggests that most companies agree.

Getting the right information to make the best decisions, however, is becoming increasingly difficult as levels of both structured and unstructured content increase daily. The goal of agile content management practitioners is to resolve that. Let's have a look.
 

EntropySoft (news, site) announces a new release of their content migration solution, Content Hub, starting with a new web based user interface.

The only better marketing tool than price cutting in the current climate is software upgrades. Snowbound Software has done just that with their document viewer software with functions they have hugely simplified and to which they have added a FileNet P8 connector.

IBM (news, site) announced fairly significant updates to its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) product families, including Business Process Management (BPM), eDiscovery and Archiving.

Apparently having heard the market scream for leaner, smarter product options and cost efficiency, the Big Blue has also introduced starter packs -- licensing-wise slimmed-down product versions targeted for smaller or departmental deployments -- for four of its ECM product lines.

Google (news, site) gave more power to administrators who have to integrate offline and cloud-stored data with a collection of new Google Search Appliance (GSA) connectors -- all in the name of quicker and higher ROIs.

In its quest to make all data, wherever it hides, available to Google's monstrous search tools, the company has released a new collection of Connectors that help tie together yet more data that may be hiding in previously inaccessible corners of an enterprise's systems.

Among the new Connectors is one for Salesforce which allows the Google Search Applicance to search any data in the salesforce.com CRM. As Salesforce is a big thing in many organizations, making that data available to users and help them find client information that may be stored in databases, spreadsheets and other resources.

Additionally, improvements have been made in the existing connectors for content management systems, including SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet. Notably, the SharePoint connector adds 64-bit Windows support, batch authorization and multiple site collection.

Going green isn’t just environmentally considerate anymore. In fact, these days, it’s downright trendy. Businesses of all sizes are joining in on the trend, and IBM is no exception.

Earlier this week the computer technology superstar released several new software applications and services targeted to help businesses cut energy consumption by more than 35%.

Doubt anyone is bored at the IBM Information on Demand Conference. Yesterday at the conference IBM announced a new agile ECM portfolio — we got dizzy just reviewing the enhancements, trying to keep them all straight. The new portfolio takes on a new format bringing together content, process and compliance capabilities in a neat little composite application framework.

The new Enterprise CMS portfolio is, again, the continuing saga of IBM’s vision of InformationOnDemand.

Pegasus Imaging Corporation, a digital imaging vendor, released a new version of Prizm Viewer — the browser-based image viewer.

With Prizm Viewer v8 users can navigate, view, annotate and share images, CAD and PDF files residing in document management or Enterprise CMS’s via a web browser.

Content is a big deal these days, in case you haven’t noticed. However, its exponential growth over the years has left some businesses struggling. IBM has stepped up its game by unveiling their integrated approach to helping organizations manage enterprise content with software that helps control and manage all types of content created and shared by workgroups across an organization.

It’s called a Business Content Services strategy, and it’s designed to help businesses of all sizes cope with the rapid growth of content, including business documents that have been created both individually or collaboratively across diverse and even global workgroups.

The EMC World 2008 event just wrapped up in wholesome Las Vegas and the content management industry eyes were ogling both the table top dancers and the (not so?) seductive CM story EMC was peddling.

If the dream for your installation of IBM FileNet P8 4.0 is that users have the ability to recover content and metadata at an even more granular level, and honestly who doesn’t have that dream, then prepare for CYA Technologies to make your millennium.

IBM has announced an upgrade to its Classification Module, which automates the categorization of large volumes of enterprise information, integrating with the FileNet P8 CMS platform.

The system is aimed at data stored in FileNet repositories. It automatically determines the importance of information, then stores and classifies it appropriately.

Large amounts of previously unmanaged content can be processed, as can content already under management but in need of reclassification.

By uniting IBM’s DB2 9 Viper data server and FileNet P8 with its xfy and XMetal offerings, JustSystem hopes to unify content and data views within the enterprise.

VP Paul Wlodarczyk of solutions consulting at JustSystem explains, IBM covers Web services with FileNet P8, and XML data with the DB2 9 Viper data server. With xfy and XMetaL, we can leverage content from each of those sources to help developers rapidly deliver the unified view that business users want.”

Guess this means less tabbing back and forth for us. If all goes as well as planned, the solution will also:

• Speed document creation and collaboration
• Vanquish errors associated with dynamic documents
• Reduce costs by leveraging existing engineering data assets

JustSystems is currently appearing as a Diamond Partner for IBM’s Information On Demand 2007 conference. Its offering is targeted to financial services, big pharma and life science, high-tech and manufacturing industries, if only because these sectors boast the same issues other enterprises have except with unique security, compliance and data issues.