Opentext News & Articles

This week there is OpenText’s announcement that Metastorm BPM has been given some very serious security certifcation, EMC buys Syncplicity and offers cloud governance, Iron Mountain outlines the problems created by SharePoint and Social Media in records management and BWise moves on from acquisition.

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A final announcement from OpenText this week. Yesterday we had an extension of media management through a partnership with ConceptShare; today it’s the turn of its mobile offerings, which have been expanded with the release of Exceed onDemand for Apple iPad tablets.

OpenText has been busy this week. Leaving aside the US$ 233 million EasyLink buy, it has also announced a partnership with ConceptShare that will make it easier for business users to collaborate, annote and mark up creative work across a while bunch of assets from documents to images to time-based video and web pages.

This week, SpringCM upgraded its document approval software, Amazon released Send to Kindle for Mac, OpenText and BigHand released their first integrated offering, Agility upgrades its Web CMS and NovoDynamics releases device-neutral OCR.

It’s been all of three weeks since OpenText released something new. We were getting worried. But today, we have news of two new releases: One is for global brand management and the other is an upgrade to OpenText Alchemy, its document management solution for small and medium-sized businesses.

At Wednesday’s OpenText Content Day, a recurring theme was heard: today’s customer is setting new expectations and businesses need to respond.

Digital Asset Management is a specialist sub-set of Content Management, one which has developed along it's own evolutionary past. It has grown out of the needs of the traditional publishing industry to manage photographic images for print publications, and developed into an adjunct of web content management to manage still images, video and audio files as "rich media" content for web sites and other media.

This week, Zoho announced that it was expanding its portfolio of mobile applications including Zoho Docs, OpenText extended the reach of its enterprise CMS for SAP, we took a look at whether Office 365 is good for your business, Cabinet NG releases WebSync and NovoDynamics launches NovoDocufier.

Since SAP and OpenText signed reseller agreements to sell OpenText document management and enterprise CMS under the SAP brand name, they’ve been steadily building the product portfolio and adding new functionality. Now they have released v10 with support for SAP CRM and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).

This week, there are number of issues dear to the GRC heart. First, OpenText is offering a secure large file transfer application, Symantec has identified what happens to data on smartphones when the smartphones get lost, we take a look at SharePoint governance and content migration, while Canon secures information captured through printers.

There were a number of interesting announcements this week including the release of CNG-SAFE v7.5, Lexmark’s addition of new Enterprise CMS functionality through the acquisition of Brainware, OpenText offered Tempo on general release, while Adobe upgraded printing functionality. Meanwhile, Webhostforasp.net offered new SharePoint hosting services.

Last November OpenText announced that it was releasing Tempo, a solution that promised to make document sharing quicker and mobile, while synchronizing data across computers and devices. That is now on general release and was also accompanied by the release of a new Tempo Express Edition.

This week, OpenText releases a capture solution that provides easier retrieval of content in SharePoint, DocuWare provides better email compliance management and Guidance announces that it is buying CaseCentral, while SAI outlines GRC predictions for healthcare.