Email & Instant Messaging

OpenText is having another stab at weaning us off email as a collaboration tool, with a new social media add-on to its ECM platform it calls Bandaroo.

For a great many organizations email is the part of the information resource that is in greatest need of improved management.  Emails can be an important part of the documentation trail for transactions, yet are often ‘managed’ by having users save them in private folders within their Outlook mailboxes.

A report by the US State Department Inspector General criticises US presidential contender Hillary Clinton for ignoring official guidelines in using a personal email server for official communications.

MxHero, developer of email and cloud convergence technology, has launched a new feature that allows companies to more easily file and collaborate over important emails. Part of its Mail2Cloud Archive suite, the new feature provides automatic and intelligent filing of email to popular cloud storage.

Microsoft partners, harmon.ie and Gimmal have announced a strategic partnership to help business users with an easy way to capture, classify, store, find and retrieve important documents and emails in SharePoint, directly from Outlook.

Formerly dubbed Project Horizon, a a suite of cloud-based enterprise content managment apps have been launched by EMC Enterprise Content Division, known as the EMC LEAP family.

Workers wondering where their time goes should look at how they manage emails, new research suggests. In a  survey of US chief financial officers (CFOs) conducted for recruitment firm Robert Half, 17 percent said the time they spend on work email is wasted.

You’re not alone – the majority of people use email for communications of course (it’s the de facto standard), but also as a collaboration tool. Microsoft Outlook is now also the accidental storage system – a vast amount of an organisation’s knowledge resides in individual users’ inboxes.

SharePoint add-ins from harmon.ie have been consolidated into a single, unified offering, updated to that streamline workplace collaboration and make SharePoint easier to use in the enterprise environment.

Veritas Technologies has announced a multi-million dollar investment in new dedicated cloud data centres in Australia targetting the email archiving and e-discovery market.

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