Kofax News & Articles

It’s been busy this week. OpenText’s ECM Suite, working with SharePoint 2010, gets DoD 5015.02 records management certification, Kofax sells off its hardware business to concentrate on its capture software, Logical Objects releases v6.0 of its open source document management software and Golden Hill offers Google Docs back-up for Macs.

Even with Thanksgiving, the document management space has been busy. The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 3.3 beta, Open Text and DocsCorp have teamed-up for better OT Content Server PDF Management and Motive previews its Salesforce integration product.

Google is the source of quite a lot of news this week particularly around rumours that it is packing a new punch, and the new competition between it and Microsoft for federal email. Meanwhile, ACS has put in a good show for Xerox in the recently released Q2 figures.

It’s the middle of the holiday season, but still a lot of movement in the document capture space, including the release of document capture software for iPad and SharePoint 2010. Kofox and IKON also integrate for better capture and workflow.

This week, Microsoft has been receiving a lot of attention with the general release of Docs.com for Facebook, a new capture tool for SharePoint from Kofax and a better Office 2010 mobile experience from Aia. Xerox encourages ‘green’ printing with free software.

Since HyperOffice went into beta last December with a new version of its cloud suite it has been threatening to take the collaboration thunder in the SMB space from Microsoft and Google. In the meantime Google outlines how much it is worth to the SMB market.

Enterprise Content Management company KnowledgeTree (news, site) has revamped its partner program with a new focus.

There's no need to underline how bad the recession has been for SMBs. But there's light at the end of the tunnel as IDC predicts spending on IT is set to grow this year. Meanwhile, IBM is trying to grab the SMBs Microsoft has annoyed by discontinuing the Windows Essential Business Server.

February and we just can’t seem to get away from the dual obsessions of hosted solutions and security. Particularly telling in the SMB sector, it looks like these are two areas we are going to be hearing a lot about over the course of the year.

Open source document management vendor KnowledgeTree (news, site) has just taken another step forward with its software by getting together with one of its resellers -- Red Eagle Consulting -- to develop a Kofax Capture Release Script that will enable users to bulk scan documents into KnowledgeTree repositories.

Since its creation in 2003, New York-based Speedy Solutions (site) has been providing "mashups" of technology for the document management industry.

Their latest venture, which will be released in September, will see their Speedy Organizer solution, integrated with four of the biggest document management systems on the market.

At the end of March this year Alfresco (news, site) released version 3.1 of its enterprise content management system. Discussing the new release, VP of Business Development Matt Asay indicated that they had improved support for Kofax Capture. So the announcement that a new extension for Alfresco 3.1 is undergoing beta testing and will soon be ready for general release is no real surprise.

However, it was neither Kofax, nor Alfresco itself that developed the extension, but Alfresco’s partner Micro Strategies did the honors this time.

As the community manager for Alfresco (news, site), I interact in a variety of ways with our members but most of the time our conversations take place over the great expanse of the “Interweb”.  It is, therefore, a great pleasure to see faces, shake hands, and listen to what our community has to say at our meetup events.

Westbrook Technologies, developer of Fortis enterprise document management software, announced that it has added several new features and product enhancements to improve Fortis.

Fortis 2.4.1 now includes enhanced AutoCAD format support, export to PDF, CDExpress, eCopy ShareScan OP and Kofax Capture.