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Concursive has decided to provide users with the opportunity to use its flagship product, ConcourseSuite 5, for free while having avoided placing the many limitations that a user would normally expect from an offering like this. This package is a culmination of several separate modules -- solutions like CRM, CMS and Collaboration -- that have been brought together in a single solution to assist companies with managing information and enabling collaboration.

Evolving from copiers to document management to CMS, Xerox announces the launch of DocuShare Express, a content management solution developed specifically for small to mid-sized businesses. DocuShare Express includes many of the same features of Xerox’s original DocuShare ECM suite and enables businesses to store, access and share documents and content.

SpringCM, the leader in document management and workflow products, has recently announced a slew of changes and improvements with SpringCM 4.4. The key improvement here is the addition of record management capabilities, which will allow enterprises to have more control their data. If you have a bunch of data to deal with, SpringCM might be able to lend a helping hand.

BearingPoint has joined forces with it's long-standing partner Microsoft to create a compliance and risk management solution based on the SharePoint platform. And you said SharePoint didn't do compliance...

You know them for their document management and records management systems, but today Laserfiche has moved a step further into the world of enterprise content management with the announcement of Laserfiche Rio, a combination of their enterprise document management software and business process management software. Laserfiche says Rio is the enterprise content management solution you've been looking for. And guess what? -- It integrates with SharePoint.

Boston-based Records Management specialist Iron Mountain has named Bob Brennan as its new CEO. Brennan was unveiled in his new position on June 5th, and succeeds long-standing Chief Richard Reece.

Archiving has become a huge deal for organizations large and small as rules and regulations dictate how easily information needs to be available for compliance and legal purposes. So it's no surprise that enterprise content management vendors are incorporating these requirements into their solution offerings. Oracle, being no exception, has developed the Oracle Online Archive that uses their database as a storage repository for all types of content, including email, files, etc. Seems like they have been down this road before though. Does a "single solution for all content types" work in the real world?

Cemaphore Systems wants to reshape the way you manage and protect your e-mail content. Their MailShadow for Google Apps (MailShadowG) sets out to do so by immediately synchronizing email, calendars and contacts between Outlook, Exchange and Gmail, making it the first SaaS email continuity and disaster recovery solution utilizing the Google Apps cloud-based services. With MailShadowG, these business-critical services are now affordable and accessible to end users, SMBs and enterprises.

HP has taken a dip into the acquisitions market with its recent purchase of Tower Software, an Australian Enterprise Content Management Provider. But they don’t call it an ECM acquisition – rather it’s a deal that will help HP expand its reach into the ediscovery and compliance software market.

If the dream for your installation of IBM FileNet P8 4.0 is that users have the ability to recover content and metadata at an even more granular level, and honestly who doesn't have that dream, then prepare for CYA Technologies to make your millennium.

Surety, LLC, a provider of data integrity solutions, has announced the release of AbsoluteProof for Microsoft SharePoint -- a lightweight, automated software solution that seals and authenticates records in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).

The first part of our ECM Outlook 2008 discussed the emergence of Microsoft Sharepoint as a legitimate ECM application. Even though SharePoint is the 1000 pound pink elephant in the room, other issues like compliance, collaboration, and lower deployment costs continue to drive the ECM industry. Part two discusses five additional key factors and common concerns. “There has to be a better way of dealing with all of this unstructured information lavishing on shared drives,” says Clark. “Being efficient and compliant at the same time is important. I don’t think one is necessarily more important than the other. Although I’m starting to see a lot more push on the efficient side, corporate governance is not a fad. But we need be to more efficient. We need to out compete. Advertisement: read more

AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, has announced the results of its annual user survey and as the title suggests, overall customer confidence in email archiving ain't what it used to be.

Five years in the making, the Data Empowerment Group has formally launched to help corporations with the most complex -- and least understood -- aspect of their compliance package: Records and Information Management (RIM).

CYA Technologies, a leading provider of complete granular recovery solutions for enterprise content management (ECM) systems is ready to save you from a world a trouble. They have just released their latest Data Integrity Service offering for users of EMC Documentum and IBM FileNet P8 ECM systems, a service designed to find, document, and repair corruption in your ECM system.