Enterprise Content Management
A new contender has emerged in the enterprise File Sync and Share market, the Commvault Edge Drive, available as a standalone solution or in tandem with the company’s Endpoint Data Protection suite.
Nuix has launched Nuix Incident Response, a new investigative tool to analyse the cause and scope of data breaches. It harnesses the Nuix Engine’s abilities to ingest data natively from hundreds of file types and data formats, adding built-in intelligence to guide incident responders toward the key evidence of internal or external breaches.
Index Engines has announced its new Catalyst Express, a no-cost software that provides full content and metadata indexing of up to 5TB of storage containing unstructured user data.
Stewart MacLeod, Manager, Knowledge and Development at State Trustees, believes KM must work hand in hand with culture and competency strategies, to ensure that employees share and support one another.
The humble fileshare has been one of the biggest barriers to knowledge management, according to Peter Laws, General Manager of Business Information Systems at Mind Australia. The organisation is tackling the issue with the implementation of Knowledgeone RecFind 6 an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to manage a range of corporate files including contracts, personnel files and email correspondence, and improve the organisation’s access to stored information.
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.
Data Migration is a topic that gets raised time and time again in our industry, and people continue to struggle in getting it right. At some point you will likely be faced with the challenge of migrating data into your EDRMS.
How does a global organisation with more than 9000 employees deal with document management, especially as it’s not regarded as a particularly cool topic. When staff at Head Office alone are generating more than a million documents a year, the challenge is formidable, and the idea of a solution becomes more attractive. For growing mining company MMG the response was to integrate OpenText Content Server and SharePoint with the aim of achieving an integrated search, collaboration and information lifecycle management solution.
Have you ever asked a colleague for an answer to your question? If you're lucky, you knew who was going to have the answer. Chances are you sent them an email. Chances further, they will have it and they'll send you a reply saying, "Yes, here's the answer to your question." And six months later, that email is buried somewhere amongst your mass of emails.
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
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