Workflow News & Articles

The Social Enterprise and its supporting technology is being adopted broadly by all types of organizations. In a recent ESG survey of IT professionals in mid- and large-sized enterprises, 74 percent of respondents reported that their organizations had deployed some type of social collaboration or communication tools, with the majority reporting implementation of both. Social tools are a mainstream part of the corporate experience.

To say there are a lot of tools to help you manage, measure and monitor your social media presence is an understatement. Finding the right tool isn’t easy, but when you find it, it can be life-changing. Such was the case when I discovered SocialBro. Despite its frat boy name, SocialBro delivers a powerful and comprehensive Twitter management dashboard that will make you wish you could manage everything in your life with it. 

Cloud-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider SpringCM (news, site) has announced the latest release of its ECM platform. The new release focuses on improving team productivity, execution and management visibility.

Business process management faces many challenges. According to a new Forrester report, the biggest challenge facing BPM success is more social than technological. As it turns out, human behavior creates more logjams than most system integrations.

The US enterprise content management market will soon be getting some additional competition. Southeastern European based Orka software is planning to target the states with OWIS, the company’s ECM platform. Given analysts’ predictions that content management will be a top technology growth area in 2011, another choice for the market will likely be welcomed.

Last September, Xerox launched a very expensive campaign to rebrand itself as a document management heavyweight. This week, Xerox's MFP rival, Ricoh (news, site), has just announced that it will be investing US$ 300 million over three years to “aggressively” accelerate its shift into the managed document services or outsourced document management space.

Telerik (news, site) has officially launched the latest version of its web content management system, Sitefinity, today. With a completely redesigned architecture, there are a number of improvements, not the least of which include advanced workflow and new e-Commerce capabilities.

If you create a lot of custom workflows for your SharePoint implementation, but are frustrated by the low number of workflow activities available out of the box, SharePoint Solutions (news, site) has a new product available that you will be interested in looking at.

With the recent release of v7.0 of its M-Files document management software, Motive Systems (news, site) has upgraded in such a way as to make Outlook management considerably easier, as well as adding improved search and workflows.

Streamlining workflows is all the rage these days when it comes to eDiscovery. Clearwell’s new Review Module is no exception. It lets users simplify the process of reviewing data by not confining it to one tool at a time.

This week CMSWire welcomes a new platform for collaborating with colleagues across the globe. Continuity 1.0 is the premiere content/task/project management solution from Virtual Workplace, and features many of the things we love about enterprise collaboration in the social age: instant messaging, task tracking, file exchange, etc. 

Emphasising the importance of workflow in the legal review process, legal hold specialist kCura has added another component to its already extensive review platform that will manage not just risk assessment, but also how legal workflows are implemented across the platform.

Bridgeline Digital's (news, site) latest version of iAPPS Web CMS eases the content approval workflow process for those on the go.

Clearwell Systems (news, site) recently launched iClearwell, a product designed to meet the evolving needs of the enterprise, where the demands of mobile access and security are ever increasing. 

This week is dominated by e-Discovery with the release of new software from Autonomy that the company says will dramatically cut times and costs in legal review, while IBM and PSS Systems integrate for better legal hold. Social media and compliance is also the target of a new release from LiveOffice.