Information Management News & Articles

In a series of surveys last year of more than 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals, much was learned about how people "perceived" their organizations to be handling their SharePoint governance strategy. The data showed a large gap between those perceptions and what governance actually looked like inside businesses. 

This week was certainly a busy one in the customer experience space. We shared thoughts on the inevitable cashless society and talked customer journeys -- why you should be thinking of them and how to handle them in today's complex mobile, digital world. Over in Social Business we discussed the slow advance of social business while in Information Management we talked big data. 

Gartner announced the five content management vendors that it rates as ‘Cool’ this year for a variety of different reasons. They include in alphabetical order: Colligo, Flow, Gecod, Reveille and Xiat.

By month three, everyone is uncomfortable. Don’t take it personally, but do manage it. This is no time to slow down. Doggedly move forward.

Larry Ellison must have woken up mighty early this morning (like 5 am PT) to hear what SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner was going to say about SAP HANA, which is being called “the fastest in memory database of all time.” 

Keeping in mind that only yesterday, France officially entered recession again, the announcement today that BonitaSoft has managed to raise another US$ 13 million in a Series C funding round led by the French government’s digital agency shows to some extent what is expected of the business process management vendor in the future.

Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we've missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can view the full calendar here.)

This week in the document management space is a focus on document viewers and a couple of new releases, including one from Nuance that lets users hear their documents. Accusoft has also released a viewer for the cloud and Box has been busy buying Crocodocs for its HTML 5 viewer technology. Meanwhile, Xerox is on tour of the Middle East.

Once upon a time ago, Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECM) solutions were groovy. They seemed to be the key that opened the door to the land of opportunity. 

Big data is on the minds of just about everyone, with IT departments large and small grappling with exponentially growing volumes of both structured and unstructured data. But despite big data’s place as a mainstream IT phenomenon, the bulk of big data projects still fail, as organizations struggle to find ways to capture, manage, make sense of and ultimately, derive value from their data and information.

After months of accusation and counter accusation there is finally some move on the HP-Autonomy legal contest with a complaint being officially filed. However, the story took another twist this week as SAP claims that HP tried to off-load Autonomy on it. SAP, it seems, politely refused.

There seems to be no end in sight to Twitter’s shopping frenzy. The latest buy, announced this week, is Lucky Sort, an Oregon-based start-up that initially aimed to provide a tool that makes huge documents easier to analyze and visualize and is now the creator of TopicWatch, a visualization engine for big data sets that can find patterns in live data streams.

This week brought us some very interesting articles related to our month long theme on Customer Journeys. In the world of Social Business we took a look at social intranets and what the future holds for enterprise portals, while over in Information Management we learned the five things you should know before making the move to SharePoint Online.

With every new edition of SharePoint there’s a lot of new apps around that are key to getting the best of out it. This week AvePoint has a new meetings app to bring order to the content around meetings, Metalogix is offering a new way of assessing SharePoint storage, SharePoint Solutions automates site creation, and PartnerPulse monitors Microsoft partners.

 Most web and cloud giants are always after more efficient ways of processing their data. So what magic does Ubalo have that excited Twitter enough to snap up the company more or less out of the blue?