Information Management News & Articles

Amazon has just posted a peek into the usage statistics for its S3 service, perhaps aware of HP's imminent arrival on the scene. This looks like some mountain for any rival to climb.

In this week's installment of The Art of SharePoint Success, we are going to consider how we can further evolve the model developed in the previous two posts, discuss what Microsoft are doing to “fix” their own intranet and speculate wildly about what might be coming in SharePoint 15.

Hold on to your Easter bonnets…

Chances are, when you’re talking about managing information, the word "big" works itself into the conversation. Big data is everywhere and it’s not going anywhere. No matter how hard you try, you can’t ignore it, so you might as well stare down the barrel of the big data gun and make the most of it.

If you think SharePoint deployments are already extensive, then they’re about to get even more so. Colligo has announced that its document management and email management products for SharePoint are now available through GMP on the General Services Administration (GSA) contract Schedule 70.

At Oracle OpenWorld in Japan, Oracle announced new BI applications certified on Oracle Exalytics and supported on iPad and iPhone devices, a new release of the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System, and the general availability of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery.

The Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure capacity is expanded by four times.

In the GRC space this week, the big news has to be that Google is offering cheap e-Discovery with its Google Apps. However, there are more nuggets in Lockpath’s survey of risk, while a number of GRC acquisitions this week are worth noting.

What is customer experience management? A marketing discipline. A set of software features. Deep Social integration. Nope. At its core, customer experience management is something much more fundamental: Ensuring the right experience for customers; the technology is just a mechanism to achieve it. It seems that enterprise CMS provider Hyland Software is at least one software company trying to get it right.

Document collaboration solutions provider Nitro plans to expand its cloud engineering team to fuel product innovation.

IBM continues to pursue its Big Data ambitions, this time with an upgrade to its flagship DB2 to v10 along with InfoSphere Warehouse 10 that integrates with Big Data systems and compresses data into tighter spaces.

The information world is exploding with new technology and devices of all sizes and shapes, bringing with it unprecedented growth in demand for new information products and the content to drive them.

As information volume and diversity continues to expand, many organizations are struggling with how gain a view that both holistic and consumable. Enterprise middleware provider TIBCO and data integration vendor Attivio have announced a new partnership that provides at least one solution.

In previous articles, you’ve learned how to set up your project site, created a document library, learned how to collaborate on project documentation in real-time, and linked your document library to Outlook to further facilitate collaboration. Now it’s time to delve a little more deeply into the project management side of things, apart from basic collaborative efforts.

I added the phrase ‘their opinion’ to the end of the title, because while PwC always reports what respondents say, it is understandably difficult to do so with bias. PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) has always had a perspective to share, and frankly I always look forward to hearing it -- whether I agree with it or not.

Just because IT owns the technology platform, that doesn't mean they know best how to implement it.