Enterprise Content Management

So, your organisation has decided to invest in an (ECM) solution, but before you make a rash decision and sign a contract with the first ECM provider you find on your Internet search, consider these 10 “must-have” features that your selected ECM should provide.

According to a new report by University of Greenwich Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas organisations are capturing and sharing the wrong sort of knowledge. Based upon a five-year investigation, the report Transforming Knowledge Management sets out a more affordable route to high performance organisations.

One of the big attractions of SharePoint is that through a list you can generate a form, hence you can take a process that could be paper based and automate it. When talking to organisations about SharePoint this is often one of the deal clinchers when considering if SharePoint is the solution for them. Especially if they have no form automation or Access database setup.

Hyland Software has announced a partnership with DocuSign to create an integrated solution that combines enterprise content management (ECM) with secure, legally-binding e-signatures to promote faster processes that rely on document signing, storage and retrieval.

The Searchdaimon enterprise search product is now available as open source software. The company says it is the only enterprise-grade alternative to Solr available at http://www.searchdaimon.com.

Hyland Software has announced today the latest release of its enterprise content management (ECM) solution, OnBase 13. This is an annual release which the company says this year ncludes more than 2500 enhancements.

Ballarat Health Services has recently deployed the Rhapsody Integration Engine from Orion Health as its new platform to provide connectivity between critical clinical, patient and administrative applications, including pathology, admission, discharge and transfer systems.  

Macroview has announced an update to its Document Management Framework, DMF v7.7, which enhances and extends the native document management capabilities of SharePoint. Support for SharePoint 2013/Office 2013 has been added in the new version.

ABBYY has announced an integration of the Fujitsu ScanSnap N1800 network scanner into ABBYY FlexiCapture 10, enabling simple one-button scanning of  paper documents directly into business processes such as accounts payable (AP) and Human Resource (HR.

Accusoft has released a service pack update for the company’s embeddable document viewer for SharePoint environments, Prizm Content Connect v7.2, adds support for enhanced digital rights management (DRM) and saving of multiple named annotations, among other new features.

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