Information Management News & Articles

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.

Accounting departments have an updated SharePoint tool for automating accounts payable billing thanks to a release from KnowledgeLake.

If you live in the Northeast, odds are that you looked out your window a couple of weeks ago and saw snow falling from the sky. Parts of the region were buried under more than three feet of the white stuff, paralyzing the population. The bright side of any blizzard is that the snow, no matter how much, eventually melts away. The same is not the case for email.

Got data? Of course you do. Have you figured out what to do with it? ZoomData can help. It takes your data at any level and gives you actionable, shareable, real-time insights.

It seems hard to believe that anything to do with data, content management and business performance management could be 20-years-old. But it is. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Balanced Scorecard, the Advanced Performance Institute and Actuate carried out a survey of over 3000 companies worldwide to find out how well they did at measuring and managing their business performance.

This week offered several statistics about the low levels of employee engagement in the workforce. But all hope is not lost -- there are strategies and tools out there that can help turn these numbers around. Read on.

You can build the future, you can buy the future, or you can do both. Nearly all of the world’s big tech companies choose the latter. And it’s not that they lack the ability to be innovative or hire the best talent, but because as EMC Chairman Joe Tucci says, “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.” 

This week for the mobile app of the week we’re continuing our search for tools that aid employee engagement with a look at Adobe LiveCycle Mobile ES4, which gives users a mobile environment to work on documents and tasks.

Enterprise software giant Oracle is acquiring Nimbula, private cloud infrastructure management technology provider. Nimbula solutions are designed to assist users in managing their cloud infrastructure resources and also work in public and hybrid cloud environments.

Do you think of your employee's experience when creating your enterprise search strategy?

While many enterprises are still wrestling with the problems of cloud computing and whether they should make the jump, a small number of companies are providing stepping stones to the cloud that can make the transition less painful -- Alfresco and its hybrid model is one of them. Alfresoco’s Director of Cloud Services David Gildeh sat down with us last week to explain what this is all about.

This week has been a busy one for Microsoft. Outlook.com went down because of overheating in data centers while there have been a couple of releases for SharePoint including Metalogix for big files and ShareVault’s document transfer for SharePoint. Kofax has also upgraded is capture capabilities.

The crowd was wildly snapping pictures and the star of the show grabbed his camera and started snapping back. Fans who surrounded the spectacle started then taking pictures of the audience and the icon taking pictures of each other. It was like a moment from a rock concert, with the exception that instead of throwing guitar picks to the audience, the superstar was throwing HTML5 stickers and was the biggest geek (a term I use with love) in the room.