Ecm server

Microsoft has quickly created a major presence in the enterprise content management (ECM)market with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. To help IT managers assess SharePoint asan ECM platform, we turned to Tisson Mathew, Chief Technology Officer at Aivea, an ITConsulting firm with deep Microsoft technologies experience. Submitted by Aivea Corporation

Since the release of SharePoint Portal Server 2001, users have realized that by using the storagecapabilities of SharePoint Products and Technologies, documents can be stored, archived and used forcollaboration. SharePoint was also a great way for users to get their feet wet with ECM since it wasbeing delivered as part of the platform their organization already had in place or would likely implementin the near future.Submitted by KnowledgeLake

An Encore Performance By Popular Demand! Wednesday, June 20, 2007 @ 1:00 PM ESTThe attendance and response at our previous webinar was so overwhelming, we just had to do it again!As newer technology paves the way for innovation, Microsoft® has raised the bar on classic ECM with Office 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007. Clearview is redefining the ECM world order with a new, fresh approach that is built upon, leveraging, and extending the new wave of Microsoft technology and innovation.For registration and additional information, download the Webinar brochure.

Today Oracle announced the latest upgrade to its flagship database: 11g. The announcement brooks great interest within the ECM community because, as we detail in the ECM Suites Report, so many ECM tools (including all the leading players) utilize the Oracle database. Of particular interest is enhanced support for "LOBs" (Large Objects), such as documents, drawings, images, and so forth. Oracle says 11g can now provide: comparable performance to regular file servers for access to large files greater compression capabilities the ability to encrypt LOBs within the database environmentIt has long been the case that databases were ineffective at handling enterprise documents -- sometimes becoming grindingly slow -- but the performance gap has been closing over the past few years.

After walking back from the financial brink, Day keeps advancing. As is the often the case, the most notable pieces of the latest release of its CMS, Communique 3.5, are a bit hidden. We think it's significant that the product is now architected to run in 3rd-party Appservers rather than a generic JVM (though you can still expect to see a lot of server-side ECMAScript under the covers). And WebDAV support makes it more contributor-friendly. Like FatWire, Day now ships its own IDE, too; just exactly why vendors do this remains something of a mystery to us...Read about the product

Both Microsoft and EMC deliver platforms for enterprise content management (ECM) that are designedto meet these needs. Both Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and EMC® Documentum®provide capabilities for capturing content, organizing, and managing it in a systematic manner,rendering and distributing it as needed, and finally storing it for long-term retention and disposition. Submitted by EMC Documentum

ABBYY: Recognition Server™     ABBYY, a leader in document recognition, data capture and linguistics technologies, licenses its technologies to many leading capture and ECM vendors, providing the foundation for many of today's content management and capture solutions. ABBYY Recognition Server is a robust, server-based solution for automating document recognition and PDF conversion in enterprise environments. Its scalability, open API, XML ticket support and "hot folders" allow integrators and corporate IT staff to quickly integrate OCR functionality into existing knowledge or content management systems across an enterprise. With ABBYY Recognition Server, IT managers can easily set up document processing service to convert scanned images into searchable PDFs for full-text indexing and archiving.ABBYY USA Software House47221 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538

No doubt that you've heard the buzz about the release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) as a robust and scalable ECM platform. While that's certainly true, (MOSS can and does effectively compete against legacy ECM platforms) there's still a good chunk of lingering "FUD" (Fear, Uncertainly and Doubt) within the market surrounding its true capabilities.

Despite unexpected pressures from regulations and consolidation, the ECM market is strong, vibrant and paving the way for 2004 and beyond. Here's a review of recent news from the market's many "tipping points."80-20 SoftwareIntegrated document and records management vendor 80-20 Software announces support for the Oracle database as the underlying store for its core document and records management product, 80-20 Document Manager. "Oracle completes the suite, with our DM/RM product now capable of using Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 or Oracle as a centralized unstructured data store." says Mark Ross 80-20 CEO. 80-20 allows users' document folders to be preset with all the business rules necessary to ensure efficient, timely and compliant, categorization, storage retention and deletion of records and other documents.Arbortext

Globalscape, long known for HTML authoring and FTP desktop tools, has just released a new CMS product called "SnapEdit." It's really a server-based alternative to Macromedia's Contribute client; that is, SnapEdit offers a wysiwyg browser editor atop individual HTML files, with some versioning but no workflow. SnapEdit seems to have been cannibalized from another GlobalScape product, PureCMS, but targeted more at the company's traditional webmaster client base. At $100-500 (depending on the number of authors), the price is certainly attractive, and SnapEdit will run in both PHP and ASP environments. With its 3rd CMS product, GlobalScape will need to carefully explain key differences, but competing vendors -- notably Ektron -- face the same challenge. On the whole, we see greater segmentation in the market. That's good for buyers...Read more about SnapEdit