Two new modules introduced in TRIM 7, due out in the Pacific region on 31 March, indicate HP's priorities with its first major release of the ECM platform since acquiring it from Australia's Tower Software in March 2008.

HP TRIM for SharePoint Records Management and HP TRIM for SharePoint Archiving are at the forefront of HP's drive to maintain relevance the SharePoint era.

Kris Brown, Worldwide Product Manager HP TRIM, admits the space dominated by TRIM in Australian government and enterprise records management now faces major competition with local platforms built with a specific focus on capturing documents from SharePoint.

"SharePoint's global reach is huge," said Brown, and all the analysts give it a tick for its integration with Office, which is dominant on the desktop, and provides easy collaboration."

"However analysts are starting to realise its limitations in managing enterprise content"

"TRIM provides enterprise-level records management, both physical and electronic," said Brown. "The user can live and breathe in SharePoint with physical records management done in TRIM."

The TRIM 7 SharePoint modules will also address the challenge of managing and archiving the Web 2.0 content that is part and parcel of SharePoint-based collaboration, blogs, wikis, discussions, documents, and Team sites.

All SharePoint list items can be mapped to TRIM content types and business rules used to manage and archive these. It can also provide scheduled archiving of SharePoint team Sites.

The module seamlessly archives specific list objects in SharePoint Server, or entire SharePoint Server sites, to HP TRIM. This happens behind the scenes, which allows users to take entire SharePoint Server sites offline while ensuring continued access to information. 

HP has also put a major focus in modernising the architecture of TRIM 7 to provide 64-bit support for Windows Server 2008. The TRIM "thick" client will remain as Windows only, however a new thin client will provide broad desktop platform support.