Content Management Matters ™

The prominence of eDiscovery in the last few weeks certainly highlights the growing need for all kinds of companies to prepare efficiently and sufficiently for legal discovery.

We first reported that legal costs were rising, because organizations were ill-prepared to manage the massive amounts of content being searched and analyzed.

Now, as it turns out, law firms are also pointing fingers at their unorganized clients -- saying that not only are they unprepared, they don't have any system is place to manage records or track documents.

Captaris, Inc., a provider of software products that automate document-centric processes, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Oce Document Technologies GmbH (ODT), a company specializing in document capture, text recognition and document classification.