Records Management News & Articles

Earlier on in the week,  we took our first look at the recent AIIM State of the ECM Industry report for 2011 and saw that, while content chaos was still the major theme this year, as it was last year, some progress has been made, even if a lot remains to be done.

The reinvention of the traditional search engine has kept many companies busy. And while consumer search engines such as Google and Bing may reign supreme, within the enterprise, search queries often require more substance and hearty discovery. Especially because the enterprise doesn’t always know what it knows, searching for information can be laborious, increasing the need for an enterprise search tool that can penetrate massive amounts of data.

Addressing risk, compliance, document control, retention, e-Discovery, disaster preparation and recovery.

This week, EntropySoft enables easier document transfer in its upgraded Content Hub, GimmalSoft offers records management for SharePoint and looks for DoD certification, Flash may be causing problems for users of early Office suites through Excel, while Snowbound and Square9 give mobile documents new functionality.

This week in document management there’s been a couple of extensions for SharePoint, including one built by MetaLogix and a partnership for extending its records management, while HyperOffice has been taking a look at email management. Otherwise, this week there is also a business card reader for iPhone.

In GRC this week there have been a number of releases in the e-Discovery space, including a StoredIQ solution for SharePoint  and enhanced search across Clearwell's e-Discovery platform. There are also indications that we may be heading toward an e-Discovery standard. Meanwhile, both Viewpointe and Agiliance have issued new releases.

What if there was a known winning formula for implementing and executing records management? A recent report by Océ Business Services, who surveyed approximately 372 records managers and executives responsible for document management processes on how their organizations are using records management to drive success indicates there is one. Here's a look.

This week in the GRC space, there were significant releases from both EMC and IBM’s new acquisition OpenPages. Compliance vendor Compliance 360 looks ahead in 2011 to how the directors of major corporations will react to GRC over the year, and open source OpenLogic reports record sales driven by its new open source compliance offering.

Busy week here in the document management mines. Alfresco made its document management software social, LibreOffice continued to expand its reach by adding portable functionality, Xerox bought some new document collaboration software with WaterWare and Oce took a look at the benefits of document imaging.

 Last January, EMC (news, site) bought GRC vendor Archer. This January, EMC outlined how it viewed GRC in the coming years and how Archer would fit into that. The result is the RSA Archer eGRC Management Platform, which provides a basis of EMC’s newly formulated GRC strategy.

OpenText (news, site) and Microsoft, who have been working together on GRC for quite some time, have had their combined records management ability endorsed this week with the award of DoD 5015.02-STD certification.

At the end of 2010, it is hard to make any simple analysis of document management in the enterprise. By its nature, it is closely related to enterprise content management and as a result reflects many of the problems afflicting the ECM industry.
 

OpenText (news, site) has finally released v5.3 of its eDOCS DM, which the company is describing as a significant upgrade to the eDOCS portfolio and, more importantly, lays the groundwork for the next major release of eDOCS, which has been earmarked for 2012.

There is growing product-based evidence that vendors are either designing or adapting software for specific tasks and verticals. Today’s release of Auminence by Autonomy (news, site) and the application of IDOL to the healthcare vertical is a case in point.

This week, Dell shows that it is serious about developing its SaaS offerings with new email security software. CommVault extends its Simpana software, while BMC has automated its GRC processes on its BSM platform.