The end of the era of “monolithic” Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions is upon us, according to EMC, which is replacing Documentum with a set of cloud-based modular apps that can be consumed at will. EMC expects to launch the first four it has in development by the end of 2015, under its Project Horizon program.

Métier, the business management and optimisation platform, has announced a new knowledge management tool that integrates with Métier’s platform for users to learn, interact and get answers quickly. This tool is offered to Métier platform users at no additional cost.

Microsoft has made publicly available a preview of Office 2016, due out in Q3, although desktop users will be required to uninstall earlier versions of Office to run it. Meanwhile it has confirmed that SharePoint Server 2016 will become generally available in Q2 2016, with a public beta planned for Q4 2015

harmon.ie has enhanced its Collage app to provide access to topical email, together with all their business apps, documents, collaboration apps and enterprise social networks in the one place.

Exari, developer of cloud-based contract lifecycle management solutions, has been awarded a patent for its document authoring technology by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Nuix has integrated its eDiscovery technologies with Dropbox for Business, enabling users to perform processing, search, analysis, and review against data in the Dropbox cloud.

Microsoft has dropped the Preview tag for the Microsoft Outlook app for Android phones and tablets, bringing equality with the iOS version.

New Zealand’s Information Leadership and cloud provider Revera have teamed up to launch two Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms to help companies and organisations transition to information management in the cloud.

IQX Business Solutions has announced that OneList Approvals 3.8 has achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. OneList Approvals 3.8 integrates with SAP Gateway technology to consolidate all SAP and non-SAP approval tasks into a single user-friendly list, actionable, everywhere.