Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise file sharing specialist Egnyte has announced the launch of what it calls the first hybrid data governance solution for enterprise, Egnyte Protect. Expanding upon Egnyte’s hybrid EFSS solution, now named Egnyte Connect, Egnyte Protect provides visibility, insight, and control over files accessed in any content environment – including popular services like Box, SharePoint and others.

Addressing a recent user forum hosted in Melbourne by reseller and solution provider Kapish, HPE’s David Gould, WW Director, Software, Information Governance Solutions, outlined the upcoming name change for TRIM/RM, as well as a new features of the V9.0 release. Afterwards, IDM’s Bill Dawes spoke with David about the product’s future roadmap.

TRIM 9.0 has arrived a with a bang, and a new name! HPE Content Manager is the official moniker for the newest version of the venerable record-keeping software. HPE is emphasising the governance smarts of the new enterprise content management (ECM) platform which builds on a base that has delivered more than 1800 customer accounts and 1.5 million users across the globe (see IDM’s interview with David Gould, HPE’s WW Director, Software, Information Governance Solutions HERE).

HPE has announced the launch of the HPE Verity suite, a modular set of applications and services to help businesses manage, govern and extract actionable insights from enterprise information. The first module to be released is Verity Information Archiving, designed to help organisations manage and control data in accordance with regulatory, legal and operational needs.

As data itself has become currency, the metadata describing it has also emerged as a core asset of modern business. Metadata interweaves itself throughout all information; like DNA, it serves as the genetic makeup of data. So even though metadata may not be the most obvious data created, it holds tremendous value in unlocking and exploiting the value of enterprise information.

AvePoint has announced the availability of DocAve Governance Automation Service Pack (SP) 8, providing a single governance system to manage the latest SharePoint versions – including SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, and SharePoint Online – under a centralised platform.

The term ECM is actually an abstract and entirely unhelpful label when attributed to data systems – attempting to describe a world that is rich with tools, methods and consultants, yet equally endowed with resistance, frustration and cost. 

While a lot of speculation remains around Dell's proposed $US60 billion-plus acquisition of EMC, which could close any time in the next few months, the company’s Enterprise Content Division is bringing its key executives to Sydney on June 9 for a full day seminar on the future landscape of content management in the digital era.

The Citadel Group Limited (CGL), a $200 million listed Australian solution provider to Governments and the private sector, has acquired Kapish for $A17.5 million. Kapish is one of only two Australian Gold Business Partners for the HPE Content Manager (ex TRIM/RM) suite of document and records management solutions (the other is Optus).

Australian technology company Nuix has released Sensitive Data Finder 2.2, an upgrade that adds visualisations and other analysis features to streamline common tasks and identify high-risk information sooner.

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