Information Management News & Articles

This week there is OpenText’s announcement that Metastorm BPM has been given some very serious security certifcation, EMC buys Syncplicity and offers cloud governance, Iron Mountain outlines the problems created by SharePoint and Social Media in records management and BWise moves on from acquisition.

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.)

If Salesforce Chatter isn’t chatty enough for you, then the announcement today that Salesforce will be making Chatter Messenger and Screensharing generally available next month should come as good news.

More enterprises have begun to see the cloud as a viable option for everything from physical servers to end user facing applications. This increased user demand is allowing companies such as data platform-as-a-service provider Cloudant to grow rapidly. The company announced that it is further expanding its data centers globally to improve reliability and performance.

The Society of American Archivists (SAA) offered its “Managing Electronic Records in Archives & Special Collections” workshop in Seattle May 10-11th in support of its Digital Archives Specialist [DAS] certificate.

It’s been busy enough this week, especially with the CODiE awards where SpringCM has a lot to shout about, while DocuLex has upgraded Archive Studio, eFileCabinet has entered a new partnership and Gartner has identified what it considers the coolest content management vendors on the planet.

If EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci aimed to put its partners' collective mind at rest over the fate of Documentum, then Jeremy Burton, the company’s CMO, was there to outline where EMC is going with the cloud and Big Data.

Usually it’s the Monday of any given vendor conference that the big news gets released. In the case of EMC, it was the partner conference yesterday in Las Vegas (Sunday) that set the tone for a conference that looks set to be full of interesting nuggets. Two big things came out of it yesterday, both of them issues where many people wanted to see what EMC would say.

There's something in the air today that makes me think about Tulip mania. Perhaps it's the warm weather. Or my allergies. Or maybe it's this sale I hear is going on today.

Regardless, our contributors this week had a lot to share on the subject of the mobile experience, both in and out of the office. We heard perspectives on how mobility is and will continue to change the structures of the workspace, how mobile is a good channel -- but not the only one, got a tip on how to choose your next Enterprise CMS and were urged to keep our content tidy.

Now about that sale...

I recently spoke with a client of mine on a new prospective project using SharePoint to deliver a records management solution. The solution was to replace an existing, outdated product that was in major need of a facelift.

It took a while to figure it out from the press release, but IBM has upgraded its SmartCloud 2.1, which comes with a number of enhancements that is going to make working with Big Blue‘s cloud a lot easier, and to all appearances, a lot more productive.

eZ Systems released the newest version of its flagship software, eZ Publish, and the Etna version 4.7 features a cloud-based Saas solution on the Red Hat enterprise cloud stack.

With Sapphire Now, SAP’s annual gathering coming to a close later today, it’s hardly surprising that there is a bit of something for everyone. There’s cloud, mobile and databases, with the ERP king announcing the release of around 70 apps that do different things with different systems.

The company that leverages data best will win the future. That’s the business credo of 2012. It’s easy to say, but not so easy to do, especially at the enterprise level.