OpenText Cloud Announced for Faster, Cheaper Information Management #OTEW2012

One of the really big announcements this week from OpenText’s customer conference in Orlando is the release of the OpenText Cloud, which according to OpenText CEO Mark J. Barrenechea in his keynote speech, is the only cloud on the market at the moment specifically for enterprise information management (EIM).

It’s hardly surprising that OpenText Cloud should focus on EIM — after all OpenText is an EIM vendor, if nothing else — but it is the breath of what it is being made available that is really surprising.

OpenText Cloud

From the word go, Barrenechea says, the new cloud will provide all OpenText’s offerings as cloud products and services that will run in parallel to its already extensive list of on-premises products. The result is, that as of this week enterprises will have access to more than 20 ready-to-use OpenText applications and services.

The difference with other cloud vendors, he says, is that the vast majority of them focus on providing infrastructure and applications in the cloud. OpenText, in contrast, is focusing on providing its full stack as well as specific knowledge and contextual support for deployment and maintenance, management, monitoring, security, optimization, upgrade and application management of all aspects of the cloud.

It also provides a service-level agreement on application availability, which we have seen in the past is one of the things that enterprises considering a cloud move need to look at from the very outset.

But the 20 applications and services are only the start, Barrenechea says:

The OpenText Cloud is purpose-built for EIM. Over the next two years, all OpenText software will be available both on-premises and in our Cloud. With over two million end users and 21,000 customers already in our cloud, we are making great progress."

OpenText EIM Stack

That’s a pretty impressive statement and probably the kind of thing that we’re going to be hearing a lot more of from vendors in the near future as enterprises take the advantages of cloud to heart and forget about concerns around security and the availability of applications.

For OpenText, the services it provides will be divided into four core areas:

• Infrastructure Services: It provides an infrastructure that runs the cloud from 10 data centers around the world along with storage, networking, backup, virtualization and monitoring abilities.
• Hosting Services: The provision of complete IT services that range from deployment to disaster recovery. Along with service-level agreements, current hosted offerings include: Tempo Social, Tempo Box, Content Server, Records Management, Content Lifecycle Management (CLM), Business Process Management (BPM), Web Content Management (WCM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM).
• Information Services: Information exchange from any device to any device and includes seamless business process integration across the entire global infrastructure of any data format. Current services include: fax, message archive, EDI VAN, capture and recognition, notifications and telex.
• Social Collaboration Services: Provides a pervasive layer of collaboration, social marketing, synching and sharing abilities across all applications through the OpenText cloud.

OpenText Cloud Financials

This is such a major project that there is really not a lot more to be said about it until it is actually running for clients. The initial offerings are available already, but the idea of a whole stack up in the cloud is a pretty interesting idea.

 

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MetaVis Offers SharePoint Governance With Advanced Content Crawling

The 2012 SharePoint conference starts next Monday, and with a week yet to go vendors are already lining up with this year’s announcements. MetaVis, which specializes in SharePoint information management and governance, has announced that it will be previewing Informant for SharePoint.

SharePoint, File Sharing

Informant is a governance and compliance tool for SharePoint that takes into account not just the explosion in data across the enterprise, but all the ways that information is making its way into the enterprise, particularly through file shares.

File shares have multiplied the amount of content coming into the enterprise to levels never seen before, and while that on its own is difficult to manage, the potential for information to move in the opposite direction and out of the enterprise is a security and compliance nightmare.

Here MetaVis cites SkyDrive, Dropbox, Google Docs, Amazon S3, Outlook e-mail and legacy file shares as the main culprits, but there are many more applications, and many more ways that content can leave the enterprise.

The only way to regulate that effectively is by regulating and monitoring the content, which is what Informant is designed to do.

MetaVis Informant architecture

Informant offers an easy way for enterprises to crawl, analyze and report on issues around content to ensure that it is located where it should be, and that it is not leaving the enterprise uncontrolled.

SharePoint Data Governance

According to Peter Senescu, President and Co-founder of MetaVis Technologies:

The increased use of SharePoint, file systems and cloud-based file systems have left many companies asking what information sits across these unstructured data silos “Organizations need tools that will allow them to crawl, analyze and enforce governance policies for their unstructured data – no matter where it resides…”

MetaVis Informant resource selection
 

With MetaVis Informant companies will be able to:

• Identify Sensitive Information: Identify sensitive information across multiple sources using advance crawling and advanced analytics.
• Content reporting: Develop detailed analysis of all enterprise content as well as identifying content that falls outside current policies.
• Automation: Enforce compliance standards in SharePoint, Office 365 and other file systems.
• Advanced Security: Apply desired permissions or lock-down objects like libraries, folders and lists.
• Take Action: Auto tag, archive, backup and set field values based on analysis and compliance policy reports.

The public beta of Informant, which is available for download now, supports not just SharePoint 2013, but also previous versions of SharePoint as well as Office 365, Dropbox and file systems. Support for Google Drive, Amazon S3 and Outlook e-mail is coming soon.

 

 

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GRC Roll-up: TransPerfect Buys Digital Reef, Guidance Upgrades EnCase e-Discovery

There have been a number of announcements in the GRC space in recent weeks, including the acquisition of Digital Reef by TransPerfect. Varonis has also upgraded DatAdvantage, while Guidance has upgraded its e-Discovery product. There is also a new resource for e-Discovery documentation.

TransPerfect Buys Digital Reef

We’ve been talking about Digital Reef since it opened in 2006, particularly its e-Discovery software, which it has been delivering as an on-premises solution since the start, and as SaaS a bit later.

One of its really attractive components for enterprises in recent times has been its ability to process Big Data. In fact, that ability has been such a pull that TransPerfect Legal Solutions, a US-based legal services provider, has decided not just to invest in the Big Data capabilities, but to buy out Digital Reef completely.

For those who think this might be an extreme way of developing Big Data abilities, consider how quickly this IT area is developing and how much the demand for Big Data processing is going to grow in coming years — especially around the compliance and regulatory space. 

Already, for legal service providers, it is almost mandatory to be able to provide this ability, and TransPerfect can now do it through the Digital Reef buy.

No details of the deal were released, but the idea appears to be to provide early case assessment and large-scale e-discovery to TransPerfect clients as soon as possible. It should also help TransPerfect with its marketing initiatives, as Digital Reef has been known for its ability to scale up or down easily, making it a runner for companies of all sizes.

Guidance Upgrades EnCase

Guidance Software has also been busy in recent days with the announcement that it has just upgraded EnCase e-Discovery to version 5. Guidance strengthened its position in Gartner’s MQ for e-Discovery this year, and it says that with this release its position should be strengthened even more.

EnCase v5 offers seamless integration with Guidance’s other product CaseCentral, the cloud-based e-discovery review and production application. The result is that EnCase now offers in-house counsel control and oversight of the entire e-discovery process — from hold to collection to review and production.

Apart from the CaseCentral integration, there are a number of significant improvements with this version, Guidance says, particularly its parallel processing capabilities and enhanced search and indexing algorithms.

Overall, it provides integrated e-discovery as well as security and risk management to ensure enterprise compliance, regardless of the vertical.

It also comes with early and continuous case assessment, enabling legal teams to quickly obtain necessary facts at any time from pre- through post-collection phases.

Varonis Releases Varonis DatAdvantage v5.8

Meanwhile, Varonis has announced the release of Varonis DatAdvantage v5.8, which, it says, will make data governance not only more flexible and easier to manage, but also cheaper.

DatAdvantage manages both unstructured and semi-structured data while reducing network overheads. The latest enhancements offer better audit and data access control, as well as the ability to identify and classify data owners and oversee entitlement and authorization processes.

Varonis also says that this version has added some considerable improvements to the architecture, particularly the introduction of internally developed collectors that can operate in tandem or as an alternative to Varonis probes running Microsoft SQL. This enables data collectors — a component used for metadata collection — to compile the information with a SQL server. If you want to try it out, there is a 30-day free trial available.

eDJ e-Discovery Resources

Also in the e-discovery space, the eDJ Group has just launched the e-DiscoveryMatrix. The subscription research site is aimed at companies that are considering implementing an e-discovery solution, or those that have a solution, but are not sure they are getting everything they should out of it. 

eDJ, which is the company behind the e-DiscoveryJournal, says that the site will offer information governance professionals completely unbiased information about e-discovery best practices, trends and technologies along with research and information about more than 250 e-discovery applications, and 150 feature articles submitted by solution providers and e-discovery experts.

In addition to research reports and data analysis, the eDiscoveryMatrix offers a comprehensive analysis of the eDiscovery solutions marketplace.

 

 

Source : cmswire[dot]com