Enterprise Content Management

According to the initial results of a Microsoft SharePoint governance survey commissioned by Axceler, more than two-thirds of the respondents consider it to be extremely or very important to their organisations. Yet nearly half of those same respondents confirmed that SharePoint governance policies do not exist or are undefined.

Alfresco, the open platform for content management, has added two partners to its growing Australian channel.

Objective has taken centre-stage at the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, winning a $A5M contract to roll out its ECM 8 content management platform to more than 5000 users over the next 12 months.

Newsgator has announced its first clients in the APAC region for its Social Sites add-on to SharePoint, including Allens Arthur Robinson , Bank of New Zealand ; Coca Cola Amatil (NZ); the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Australian property group Stockland.

The arrival of managed metadata in SharePoint 2010 is providing a lifeline to organisations drowning in unclassified data, according to James Milne, Chief Technology Officer of Brisbane-based Myriad Technologies, who addressed the topic at the 3rd Australia SharePoint technology conference in Melbourne.

 

ECM vendor Perceptive Software has added data centres in Europe, Asia, and Australia to its Software as a Service (SaaS) platform initially launched in the US in 2006.

OpenText has added support for the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) and SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) applications in Version 10 of its Extended ECM product.

Lexmark continues to beef up its information management portfolio, with this week’s purchase of Australia’s ISYS Search Software and U.S.–based Nolij Corporation adding to recent acquisitions in the ECM and capture fields, Perceptive Software and Brainware.

AvePoint has delivered the latest version of DocAve Content Shield for SharePoint 2010, offering features for scanning, blocking and quarantining malicious code as well as profane, discriminatory, confidential, or otherwise non-compliant content.

Outback Imaging has extended EzeScan production scanning software support for the TechnologyOne ECM platform back to Version 3.x, after announcing the addition of TechnologyOne ECM 4.02 to EzeScan’s list of supported EDRM systems earlier this year.

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