Enterprise Content Management

Asia-Pacific’s first public-facing SharePoint 2013 internet site was launched earlier this month. Built in the SharePoint 2013 Preview, www.sharethepoint.com provides a peek into the new functionality coming in the latest version of SharePoint, including all of its new social features.

A Victorian government agency responsible for managing over $A36B of major projects has been blasted in an Auditor-General's report that found it was unable to produce records of the contracts it was managing and undertook dubious employment practices.

NZ startup Pingar has announced the availability of its solution that automates the assignment of metadata to documents for SharePoint 2010. This makes it easier to search and organise large amounts of unstructured data.

A survey into filesharing at enterprise and government organisations in Australia and New Zealand conducted by IDM and Australia’s Institute for Information Management (IIM) came up with an almost even split between those who restrict the use of popular filesharing apps such as DropBox and YouSendIt and those who turn a blind eye.

 

Alfresco has a new platform to allow users of its ECM platform to securely share content outside of the organisation’s firewall, a solution it calls enterprise sync.

Scinaptic has announced the release of Version R6.3 of its OnePlaceMail Outlook Add-in offering improved usability and tighter integration with business workflows and line of business systems.

Canto, maker of Canto Cumulus digital asset management (DAM) software, has announced a new technology partnership with MovingIMAGE24, a specialist in video cloud solutions. The cooperatively developed solution combines efficient management of digital content with easy worldwide distribution of video files on different channels, platforms and devices.

Most organisations need to address a range of core  data needs and technology infrastructure issues before launching big data initiatives, research released by CompTIA, a non-profit association for the information technology (IT) industry, suggests.

Search technology company, Funnelback, has announced the release of Version 12 of its website and enterprise search offerings.

There are many challenges to implementing SharePoint, both seen and unseen. As a result there are plenty of pitfalls and traps to fall into, and it is very challenging to pick just 10 mistakes.  Poor governance, not having an intranet strategy, or not having an intranet committee are traditional mistakes, but hopefully there is more awareness about these issues now. Marcus Dervin, director of Sydney SharePoint/Office 365 consultancy WebVine. focusses on more specific issues that are are often overlooked, but can derail a SharePoint project team’s best intentions.

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