Information Management News & Articles

Collaborative task management software provider Comindware is now offering Tracker, a solution designed to coordinate, automate and track multiple processes from multiple workflows in a unified manner.

According to a new report, marketing departments are only supplying 30 percent of the leads that Sales departments need – and sales is spending a lot of time trying to qualify those leads as likely wins. Can Big Data come to the rescue?  

An overwhelming 90 percent of employees used their personal smartphones for work-related purposes in the past year, but only 46 percent think their companies are prepared for Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) issues. That disconnect is one of the findings in a new report about the realities of BYOD.

Unsure where gamification can best be used within your company? Still figuring out how to establish a real measurement of employee engagement? Unclear which direction to take with the Yammer/SharePoint roadmap? Contemplating a move to the cloud but haven't thought out your governance strategy? This week's contributors have got you covered.

We knew yesterday’s annual meeting of the HP board was going to be instructive. After the botched Autonomy deal and three CEOs in as many years, observers were watching closely to see what investors would do with their first chance to express their opinions since the whole Autonomy accountancy malpractice claim and counter claim. At the end of the meeting, the board remains in place and it will be business as usual -- for a few weeks anyway.

Mobile file sharing technology provider Accellion is extending its kitepoint external file sharing tool to provide mobile users with secure access to content in enterprise content management (ECM) systems.

One of the big questions around Yammer after it was snapped up last June was what would, or could, Microsoft do with the social software? And what would it do with Yammer and SharePoint? Previously, it has said it would integrate them in three phases: basic integration, deeper connections and connected experiences. At Convergence yesterday, it gave more details about the integration roadmap.

Enterprises are going mobile, that we know. But what trends are shaping and what are the major concerns? Citrix has been tracking these issues for some time now, and in its new report we are offered some interesting insights, not least of which is the fact that despite increasing interest in Google Android devices, iOS still dominates.

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Microsoft has announced several Windows Azure updates this week including a Hadoop distribution preview called HDInsight.

A lot of thought goes into the decision to move part or all of a company's resources to the cloud, but one thing often goes ignored: governance.

We may as well admit it, cloud computing has been changing our lives for some time now. When was the last time you didn't save something to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box? Most, if not all of your information lives somewhere in the ether. Hard drives may come and go, but thanks to the cloud, your life can go on, practically unscathed.

This week in document management we heard how SpringCM has upgraded its content security to enable safer mobile computing. OpenText was also busy this week with not one, or two, but four different upgrades and releases, while Ademero upgraded Content Central to v6.5. Meanwhile, we sat down with Alfresco to find out about the future of cloud computing.

Not too long after the sun came up this morning, thousands of developers rushed out of bed to see what 10gen, the MongoDB Company, was rolling out to its community.

It seems that the economic problems in both the US and Europe are also hitting the IT services market hard with the lowest number of IT servicing contracts signed last year since 2002.