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Time to make authoriing content in Lotus Quickr quick and easy. IBM and Ephox have announced the integration of EditLive into IBM's collaboration software, Lotus Quickr. This is just another integration in a long line of integrations for EditLive.

More good things are coming from old partnerships, the latest being a global strategic alliance between Ricoh Americas Corporation and the ever-popular IBM, spearheaded by Ricoh's new offering - Document Security and Management Services.

Mainsoft continues to bridge the divide between Java and .Net. Today they announced the Beta release of Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, SharePoint Edition.

Are you tired of hearing of this draft CMIS thing yet? Content management software companies aren’t. No rest until everyone comes up with something CMIS-compliant. Most recently, EMC released an updated CMIS-compliant version of its Documentum ECM platform.

CMIS is still in the draft, pre-born stage, but everyone wants a piece of it. Reminds us of the SharePoint saga, only MOSS is already bearing lotsa $$$ behind it.

In CMIS case, it’s all about interoperability and inter-CMS-ial, inter-repositorial camaraderie. Kind of like an Enterprise CMS socialism.

Seems like everyone these days wants to jump into cloud services and browser-based applications. IBM is no different. The company has been working on a secret project for nearly five months. Well it is no longer a secret and Big Blue has divulged some details about Blue Spruce, the company’s first attempt in providing a complete browser-based application development platform.

Wondering what’s going to happen to the ECM industry next year? AIIM offers you its look at the upcoming ECM trends.

Facilitating compliance and eDiscovery will be two of the top IT business problems, if not the top problems, says AIIM. Add to that the current economic conditions and cost-cutting initiatives as a top priority, and you’ve got yourself a (free) must-see Webinar.

AIIM and IBM invite you to join them for a discussion about the following trends and more to help you plan for a successful 2009:

• Compliance and eDiscovery: Enterprise content management investments will increase to offset external litigation support costs.
• SharePoint will continue to explode: Get organized or pay for it down the road.
• ECM as a shared service.
• Searching, or rather finding, information will continue to improve.
• Renewed interest in business process management (BPM)

When: December 10, 2008, at 2:00 PM ET
What: Webinar on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in 2009
Where: Registration is open here

It has been a little less than two months since the news of a proposed new enterprise content management standard hit the streets. The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) spec, created jointly by Microsoft, IBM, EMC and a few other Enterprise CMS providers, was the talk of the town — for better or for worse.

But it’s been relatively quiet these days and we find that strange considering the importance of a standard like this to the industry. Maybe it’s not so important. Maybe it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Maybe it’s simply a done deal and no one needs to say more…

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.

According to a recent study by the 451 Group — an independent technology industry analyst company — the pure, non-hybrid open source is, apparently, not a viable business model.

Addressing the ever-so-popular question of how to make money from something that’s in its foundation free, the analyst company assessed the development, licensing and revenue-generation strategies used by open source.

At the same time, we’ve noticed that software giants like Microsoft started playing friendly in the open
source space. In addition, CMS vendors like eZ and Alfresco report that open source can be profitable.

Research and Markets, a research group that tracks the Enterprise CMS industry, has released a report that predicts the Enterprise CMS and Document and Records Management (DRM) markets will see drastic growth in the coming years, with sales numbers more than doubling from US$ 1.6 billion now to US $3.5 billion in 2012.

The eDiscovery industry has garnered a lot of attention. Whether it’s the costs associated with the process or the burden on lawyers to carry out discovery, companies need to implement an effective knowledge and records management model. Many vendors are stepping up to the plate and offer their strategies and services for how to best manage information.

Recently, IBM announced the launch of eDiscovery Analyzer, a new conceptual search and content analysis software that aims to help legal professionals accelerate eDiscovery.

Ajax is a popular approach to developing applications and mashups. But with different implementation approaches, it makes it hard to create an application or widget that works consistently across browsers and in mashups. Until now…

The OpenAjax Alliance has announced a new draft specification that will facilitate interoperability across IDEs and make widgets more interoperable in mashups.

Not only is Thunderhead reporting record growth for the first half of this year, they are also announcing a new component to their Thunderhead NOW enterprise communication platform.

This new component called NOW Context Engine forms the core of Thunderhead’s new analytic and management information functionality.

It doesn’t come as a surprise that three of the major Enterprise Content Management (ECM) providers — EMC, IBM and Microsoft — have been secretly developing a technical Enterprise CMS specification. Their super secret project is called the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification. A fancy new acronym it is, but beyond this is it really the beginning of a brave new world for content management interoperability?