Document Management Roll-up: Alfresco Hints At New Release, Google Drive Editing For iOS

Now that Labor Day weekend is over, companies are shifting into high gear to prepare for the holiday push. Among the document management products being released in the next two weeks the general release of M-Files v9.0 and something new from Alfresco. This past week, Google Drive editing capabilities for iOS were upgraded, while enterprise content management looks set to grow in the EMEA region.

Alfresco Moves

Alfresco is due to make an announcement early next week about a new product that will offer businesses syncing simplicity between the cloud and on-premise content.

In the meantime, anticipating increased business interest in the US, Alfresco has announced plans to expand both its management team and Atlanta headquarters. The new appointments are focused principally on building the sales team — specifically, by appointing someone to chase federal sales and consulting initiatives, as well as beefing up its sales department generally. More on this next week, when we can take a look at Alfresco’s new release.

Enterprise CMS in EMEA

Even in the current economic circumstances, Enterprise CMS is set to grow, according to new research by TechNavio. In particular, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region is set to grow between now and 2015, which may come as a surprise to some in light of the difficulties in many European economies.

In fact, it won’t just grow. According to the report, Enterprise Content Management Market in the EMEA Region 2011-2015 ,  growth in the enterprise CMS space will be in the region of 13.8% compounded annually between now and the end of 2015.

This period will likely be marked by an increasing number of mergers, of which there is ample evidence already. The report also identifies OpenText, IBM, EMC and Oracle as the big players, but there will still be considerable activity from smaller players like Hyland, Laserfiche and Newgen.

In fact, looking at the brief summary of the report at hand, it looks like a profitable three years with growth expected across the entire EMEA region.

M-Files v9.0

As the end of the month approaches, M-Files is getting ready to offer M-Files v9.0 on general release. At the core of this release, the company says, is advanced support for customer deployments that require multiple document repositories, or vaults.

Multiple repositories can create considerable problems, as we have seen in the past. M-Files president Greg Milliken says that v9.0 offers better interaction and cooperation between these repositories. Using new replication abilities, V9.0 aims to streamline the process of dealing with one of the main problems of multiple repositories — relating data to other relevant data in other repositories.

While an exact date for the general release hasn’t been given, it will be available by the end of the month. More on this then.

Google Drive Improvements

Finally, if you missed it earlier this week, Google has announced that it is expanding the functionality of Google Drive for iOS and Android users.

Already up and running, users of the new iOS Drive app have the same document-editing ability that users of the Android Drive app already possess. They can also create new documents and format text as well as view other people edits.

In fact, there is a whole range of functionality that has just come on line that will make working in Drive on iOS considerably easier.

 

 

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Eclipse Corp Deepens Oracle Partnership Extending Document Automation Reach

It's quiet in the wake of Labor Day, but document automation vendor Eclipse isn't resting as it moves to Silver level membership of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN).

For clients of the companies involved, these kinds of partnerships are usually a good thing and generally result in better, or more, products. For the companies involved, it usually means extended reach into the markets they are operating in already, and the opening of new markets.

Oracle With Eclipse

With this partnership, Eclipse says that it will be able to add Oracle’s 1-Click line of products to its portfolio enabling what it describes as “competitive positioning” — which generally means better pricing — as well as, and probably more importantly given its products, increase its presence across the midsize market.

On top of that it will also be able to use the OPN portal tools and resources, as well as the expert help in the Oracle Partner Business Center, which it says will enable it to maximize customer offerings and customer retention as a result.

For Oracle, which is giving Eclipse access to its customer base, the principal benefits seems to be the fact that it will be also able to offer a new range of document solutions to its customers.

Eclipse Document Automation

Eclipse has an interesting set of solutions that build on the idea of Integration without Modification (IWM). This enables users to build all kinds of documents and forms without every having to go near the source code.

It also does away with the need for Change Management associated with document presentation and delivery.

Eclipse builds enterprise document generation software solutions and e-forms, specializing in the technology that enables companies to develop business documents.

According to Eclipse, all of its solutions come with Enterprise Cloud Fax Service that effectively does away with the need for fax servers, phone lines and physical fax machines.

The result is batch faxing that is not only up to 20 times fast than traditional faxes, but is also capable of sending 250,000 faxes in a single transaction.

Eclipse Corporation provides automation software solutions. It also provides consulting, installation, implementation and support of document automation and management software. A side note, it is not the same as the Eclipse Foundation, which is a community for individuals and organizations who wish to collaborate on commercially-friendly open source software.

More on the Oracle and Eclipse as releases happen.
 

 

 

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Document Management Roll-up: Kodak SharePoint Capture, Lexmark's New Strategy

It may have been Labor Day week, but still a few interesting items to note in the document management world. Kodak has just announced the release of a capture solution built on SharePoint, OpenText targets Tempo Express at legal industry, Lexmark points to a new hardware strategy and the Document Foundation joins OASIS.

Kodak’s SharePoint Capture

If anyone thought Kodak was just going to roll over and die, they were wrong. Financial difficulties aside, and selling of patents aside, Kodak is still working away. This week’s document capture release demonstrates that.

The new software, which comes with what Kodak describes as a radically simplified interface, is built using SharePoint 2010, which is going to make it attractive for all those companies that have installed SharePoint, and we know how many companies that actually is.

With Kodak’s Info Activate Solution, which is an enterprise-wide distributed system, users will be able to digitize documents and start business processes at the same time. This means that by the time you have your document in the system, the process of treating that document is already underway.

The real kicker here, though, is the SharePoint element. Because it has built Info Activate on top of SharePoint, users will also be able to use SharePoint technologies including content libraries, business connectivity services, dashboards as well as all the modules and third-party products that can be integrated into SharePoint.

The bottom line here is that with it, enterprises are being offered a new solution that can take documents into SharePoint directly and easily and start processes within SharePoint automatically. It also requires little or no training to use.

While Info Activate Solution functions inside SharePoint 2010 for tight integration, it can also provide file output for enterprises that are using other enterprise CMS platforms too, and can produce documents in pretty much any format you can think of. The new solution is available now.

OpenText’s Legal Tempo Express

Though it may have been a holiday weekend, OpenText was busy during the week. If you missed it earlier, it has released OpenText Tempo Express specifically for the legal industry.

It enables enterprises to set up a private solution of sharing and syncing content form inside the company with third-parties outside the firewall, all done through the cloud.

Tempo has been around for a while with the general release last November. That release centered on making document sharing quicker and mobile, with users also able to synchronize data across all computers and data. In March, that release was bolstered by a Tempo Express Edition. Interested in more on this?

Lexmark’s New Hardware Strategy?

If you’ve been following the MFP space at all over the past few weeks, you couldn’t but be aware that Lexmark has announced a massive shake-up that will see 1,700 jobs going worldwide as it exits the inkjet space to focus on what it considers more profitable technologies.

The announcement was greeted with some shock from a number of places, particularly Perceptive, which was acquired by the printing giant in May 2010 for US$ 280 million as Lexmark published its ambitions in the enterprise CMS and document management space.

 

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Document Mgt Roll-up: Vizit 5's SharePoint Doc Features, Office 2013 On Demand

This week, even with Labor Day weekend approaching there are a few notable releases. Vizit has announced the release of v5 that enhances document management in SharePoint, Microsoft has announced Office 2013 On Demand, M-Files announced SkyDrive support for v9.0 and Parascript upgrades FormXtra toolkit.

M-Files v9.0 With SkyDrive

This week, M-Files announced that the v9.0 of M-Files supports SkyDrive. This means that on top of all the existing collaboration features of the M-Files enterprise content management system, users will also be able to review and edit documents using the co-authoring features of SkyDrive.

The addition of SkyDrive support effectively surmounts the problems associated with sharing documents and other content with third parties by enabling those who don’t have access to M-Files, such as customers, partners and contractors, access the content contained in M-Files through SkyDrive.

And as SkyDrive is accessible through any device, including PCs, tablets and smartphones, it means users can collaborate on content while on the move without having to resort to email and associated attachments.

Co-authoring, as a result, will be possible through all Office applications or through WebApps even if Office is not installed locally.

There is other collaboration features available in this new version of M-Files, including better mobile access, search, cloud and hybrid cloud deployments, and long-term archiving. The beta version of M-Files 9.0 is currently available, while the full launch is scheduled for late September.

Parascript Upgrades FormXtra

Also this week Parascript has announced that it is releasing a new version of its FormXtra software toolkit that will enable developers to integrate forms with better accuracy.

FormXtra SDK 5.0 locates key data in machine print, hand print and cursive script enabling organizations to extract the important information. While earlier versions were also able to do this, Parascript says this version offers extraction possibility for a wider range of forms.

Using Parascript’s recognition technology, FormXtra SDK 5.0 can even take information from batches and process images that do not match existing templates. It also offers capabilities for the recognition of tables that may not be discreetly defined like transactional data found on invoices or other business documents.

Vizit v5.0 Released

For content visualization this week, Vizit, which provides search, and social collaboration solutions for SharePoint announced the general availability of Vizit 5.

With it, SharePoint users can find documents and specific passages or exhibits within documents, and share those portions of content in any collaborative SharePoint workspace. It also integrates document management into Yammer, enabling users to bring content into their Yammer conversations.

While Vizit 4 introduced search previews that can be placed beside any search or list result in SharePoint, Vizit 5 extends search by offering Best Bets. This means that Vizit 5 applies the search terms to the document, opens the document to the most relevant pages, and using highlighted search terms, offers users the information they are looking for.

Collaboration also got a makeover in this version, as Vizit 5 offers the ability to create a reference point within a document and share an extract using features like Vizit Conversations or Social Footnote.

 

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