Docushare

Xerox Corporation's DocuShare Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Platform – a Web-based electronic filing system that allows users to store and share information easily – received "Pick of the Year," "Best" and "Trend Setting" awards from three industry organizations. DocuShare 6.0 and DocuShare CPX 6.0 to its "Pick of the Year" awards in the Outstanding Enterprise Content Management Solution category. DocuShare earned the Five Star rating in BLI's evaluation and received high marks for nearly all evaluated criteria, including ease-of-use, simple administration, value and security.

Businesses of all sizes are experiencing information overload - the barrage of papers, e-mails, electronic documents and other forms of content that are circulated on a daily basis. For small and mid-sized businesses (SMB), cutting through the clutter can be a time consuming and expensive task. Enter DocuShare(R) Express - Xerox Corporation's (NYSE: XRX) content management software, tailored exclusively for the SMB market to help manage business critical documents with ease and affordability. DocuShare Express is an electronic filing system that provides easy storage, retrieval and sharing of information. Its Web-based folders can accommodate paper and digital content ranging from scanned documents, spreadsheets and Word documents to e-mails, blogs and wikis. DocuShare Express also includes a quick install process that rapidly uploads the program and requires little technical knowledge to install.

After pulling the plug on its CMS step-company, Astoria, Xerox has put renewed energy into its DM capabilities, which now rival those of Stellent (the former Web DM upstart), at least in breadth. The latest version of DocuShare (v3.0) is completely Web-based, for users and administrators. It's not a long jump from here to more unstructured content management. And a very low price point is going to put a lot of pressure on competitors, especially Microsoft's SharePoint server. BTW, in case you haven't noticed, WebDAV support has quietly become nearly ubiquitous...Read up on DocuShare

IBM recently announced that it was the first records management vendor to receive the TNA certification in the UK. The more I looked into it the more I've realized there isn't anything that special about the "new" TNA certification --just a different name that reflects the merger of two UK government agencies into one. The certification is still based on the same UK PRO certification -- which the government agencies are still looking to update. One thing that does look interesting is that the IBM DB2 Records Management platform (i.e. the Tarian Engine) has been on a tear in the DoD 5015.2 certification area. In addition to certifications (Chapter 2 and 4 for the Records Manager itself) within IBM's own product line and the integration with Xerox DocuShare, it recently re-certified Infolinx Systems Solution's InfolinxWeb and CACI Highview Records Manager (formerly the Vredenburg product) with the new version of the product

As organizations continually seek new ways to increase efficiencies among dispersed teams, social computing tools, such as Weblogs (blogs) and wikis, are moving beyond the public domain to permeate the workplace. A recent survey of IT decision-makers from IDC — an independent research firm — showed more than 40% of the organizations polled were already using blogs internally for corporate use. Submitted by Xerox DocuShare