Information Management News & Articles

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.

Who are the top CIOs? The annual batch of Transformational CIO Leadership Awards, released late last week, names names. 

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. 

It’s been a big week for Microsoft with the launch of Office 365 and Office 2013, even if many of the details have been out in the open for a while. SharePoint 2013 is next on the list, even if we don’t know when. In preparation for this Metalogix conducted a survey to find out what the state of the SharePoint landscape is at the moment.

It’s only three days since Microsoft launched Office 2013 and the online version through Office 365, but already it has started building it out. To be more precise, it is Bing that is building out Office 365 with the addition of five new apps that can be used with the new Office 365 Home Premium.

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.

In the next 25 years or so, the world is going to be a dramatically different place. Computers will become as intelligent as humans. Our experience of the world will be much more dynamic and driven by intelligent connections between online information and real life. As a result, every aspect of information delivery will change. 

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.

Could big data be hiding big clues about security threats? IBM thinks so, and it announced this week a new Security Intelligence with Big Data initiative.

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.

HP Autonomy has announced several significant enhancements to its market-leading e-Discovery offering, helping organizations automate and simplify processing of large, diverse data sets.