Enterprise Content Management

Almost half of Australian professionals are feeling demoralised from a data overload that threatens both work practices and output, potentially leading to ‘information rage,' according to a glubal study by workflow solutions specialist LexisNexis.

 

Equiibrium has freed up the ability to view any type of media inside SharePoint with the release of a new “Instant-On” capability for its MediaRich ECM software.

 

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) has announced new document redacting, collaboration and viewing capabilities for its Brava Enterprise 7 and Redact-It Enterprise 7 products, providing deeper integration with SharePoint 2010.

 

Canto Cumulus mobile apps for iOS (iPhone/iPad), Android and BlackBerry are shipping now, thanks to the efforts of Canto partner Vitras. The suite of apps, named SuduS, offers on-the-go Cumulus users quick access to catalogs and files, production status updates and more, from virtually anywhere.

 

CommVault is adding information governance to the list of capabilities of its Simpana 9 software, promising it will reduce the time, cost and risks associated with ediscovery, compliance, archiving and records management.

 

NSW’s MidCoast County Council (trading as MidCoast Water) has selected Objective Corporation’s content, collaboration and process management solution.

 

Bamboo Solutions has announced the release of the latest version of Workflow Conductor, its application suite designed to extend business process automation in SharePoint.

 

As President of the Information Intelligence Group at EMC, Mark Lewis directs the strategy for a division that employs more than 2600 people. He develops the global giant’s strategy and solutions for enterprise search, document management, collaboration, archiving and ediscovery. While in Australia for a recent visit to EMC’s customers in the financial and government sector, which include the Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Generation and BHP Billiton, Lewis outlined his thoughts on where enterprise content management is headed.

 

Three Australasian enterprises set out their ECM strategy to deal with workflow and document-centric collaboration.

 

ECM’s main challenge isn’t the organising and storing of content, but rather liberating information contained in documents and records for productive use, writes Abie Speers.

 

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