Enterprise Content Management

Certus Solutions, an Australian IBM software and services company, has elected to split one of its major divisions into two, Business Analytics (BA) and Information Management (IM) will now become two separate units.

OpenText has received a 2013 SAP Pinnacle award as a Solution Extension Partner of the Year. SAP Pinnacle awards are presented annually to the top SAP partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP) and driving customer success. 

Workshare has added Android to the list of mobile platforms supported by its cloud-based document collaboration and comparison platform. The iOS edition was launched late last year.

Frequently evaluating your company’s collaboration maturity is a great way to determine where knowledge gaps exist, what facets require additional education and how to assist people to expand their use of SharePoint. Departments will not mature at the same rate of speed, so it’s beneficial to build a model of maturity for your organisation so that you can plan the steps to take to move each department or group to the next level of collaboration maturity. 

Many companies are questioning whether to host SharePoint on premise or in the cloud.  There are many factors in determining an answer to this, and indeed hosting in the cloud isn’t even a straightforward decision. You have to decide whose cloud you move to for starters. 

Lawyers may be enthusiastic about the prospect of comprehensive information governance as a means to reduce litigation e-discovery risks, but a survey of small and medium business by US analyst firm 451 Research indicates that non-lawyers, senior executives, and IT staff may not be placing a high priority on these legal and regulatory needs. 

Workshare has announced integration of its enterprise collaboration applications with Microsoft SharePoint and Autonomy iManage. It claims the solution bridges the gap between traditional document management systems (DMS) and enterprise content management (ECM) systems.

An integrated document management platform for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) solution, has been launched by Perceptive Software.

All across Australia, state governments have either introduced or are introducing laws to prevent criminal association. These have been popularly dubbed the  Anti-Bikie laws, but they can be used to target members of any criminal organisation. But once you have the laws, how do you make them work? A police force in Long Beach California is using enterprise content management (ECM) technology from Laserfiche to successfully target the sinister Sureños, the largest gang in California with hundreds of thousands of members. 

Enterprise applications and enterprise content were always two different sides of the coin, however OpenText believes it has bridged the divide with its launch of a new set of Process Applications.

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