ECM applications

Nuxeo announced recently the launch of their Galaxy Program, a new and innovative program designed for application and solution providers in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space. More than a traditional partner program, the Galaxy Program enables business and field experts the ability to package their knowledge and offer vertical solutions and applications, called Content-Enabled Vertical Applications (CEVAs), to their customers as well as to the broader, ever growing Nuxeo community. Nuxeo, as well as leading industry analysts and thought leaders, consider CEVAs as the next major step in the evolution of the ECM market. A CEVA is an application solving an actual business problem in the information management space, merging content, documents, business logic, business processes, regulatory rules and supporting tools. A CEVA focuses on content and is specialized to directly meet the needs of a specific industry or sector. To address this opportunity, Nuxeo has created this comprehensive program to meet the targeted business needs of the customers.

KnowledgeLake, Inc., a leading provider of document imaging and capture technologies for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, announces a next generation product targeted at the small and medium sized (SMB) document imaging market. KnowledgeLake created this technology in direct response to an overwhelming need for an entry level SharePoint based ECM solution. This product release, code-named the "KnowledgeLake X-Series", includes a one-touch install that automatically installs and configures SharePoint so customers and partners can afford to be somewhat less technical. The application suite will operate in a Windows Server 2008 environment with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 as the ECM repository. The user experience will be delivered through a Silverlight application running in parallel with WSS 3.0.

Open Text kicked off its global Content World conference today in Orlando, Florida. The ECM giant expects it to be the largest conference in history with more than 1500 participants registered to attend. Pre- and post-conference workshops, breakouts, training, GlobalStar awards, partner schmoozing, showcasing its ECM solutions, Universal Studios trips… Open Text is going to be busy in the next few days. The event features a conference-within-a-conference program. Attendees tailor their conference experience: product/technology-specific tracks are available in the morning, with broader enterprise views offered in the afternoon.

Open Text Corporation, an enterprise content management vendor, pledged its support for the new Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard. The standard’s development is led by three major Enterprise Content Management (ECM) providers — EMC, IBM and Microsoft. Recap on CMIS CMIS is a new, open standard that will offer new ways for content applications to “talk” to content repositories. With the new standard, developers can write applications that can work with multiple repositories from different vendors, allowing users to access and organize information stored in different repositories through a single application and interface.

They are not the first to provide out-of-the box starter solutions for SharePoint, but BlueThread Inc and K2 have certainly put together an ECM bundle that has the full deal. Mind you, you have to buy their software and put it all together to make it work. BlueThread SmartDesk GUI It all starts with BlueThread’s SmartDesk end-user ECM application. This application is completely built on the Microsoft stack — specifically with SharePoint.

An ECM (enterprise content management) application allows Toyota Financial Services to cut loanapproval times from days to seconds. Used with permission from Integrated Solutions magazine

What impact will SOA (service-oriented architecture) have on the way ECM (enterprise content management) solutions are implemented, and how will this affect your current buying decisions? Imagine a world where most content management functionalities are accessed through large-scale ASPs (application service providers) instead of performed by in-house software solutions. Used with permission from Integrated Solutions magazine

As hardware prices continue to fall and data volumes increase, midsize companies are looking for ECM(enterprise content management) solutions. Industry experts highlight important ECM applicationfeatures. Used with permission from Integrated Solutions magazine

Hastings Mutual Insurance Company's integration of ECM into the insuranceunderwriting, accounting, and claims processes helped the company to realize a reduction in the time necessary to process new policy applications, improved service to agents and customers, a virtual elimination of lost files, multiple user access to documents concurrently through parallel processes, and increased support of the company's regulatory initiatives. Submitted by Hyland Software

Successful ECM solutions depend on the ability to capture content and bring it into a managed environment. Integration with third party scanning and imaging technology allows paper content such as loan applications, claims, and other documents to be saved in electronic formats within the library along with the required metadata for proper processing. Submitted by Knowledgelake

The company examine capture alternatives and options to deploying the functionality in a range of choices, from standalone point solution to integrated component of a distributed ECM platform. A new perspectiveis provided, one in which capture goes beyond that of standalone application to a service or platform available throughout an organization, in a just in time fashion. Submitted by AIIM - The ECM Association

We recently reported that Day was cooking up some new infrastructure software. Day's new CRX (stands for "Content Repository Extreme") can now be test-ridden on the company's site. Don't look for a nice, user-friendly document management system. CRX is designed to be embedded in other applications, and the interfaces are all administrative. We think it's a good thing for the marketplace to have a standards-based alternative to the proprietary text repositories found in most ECM platforms (e.g. Documentum and Stellent); in that vein, CRX competes somewhat with the native XML repositories. The key to CRX's success will be other infrastructure vendors (especially BEA and Sun) OEM'ing the tool in their own solution and perhaps, one day, acquiring Day outright...