Tag: ECM

Microsoft Enterprise Content Management White Paper

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Microsoft is without a doubt very well positioned for ECM now that ECM is “going mainstream” …

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has become a strategic imperative for most organizations. Businesses are seeing a huge explosion of structured and unstructured information that includes documents, e-mail messages, voice mail, and video.

This white paper examines the state of content chaos and provides a view of the major factors that drive the development of ECM solutions. It reviews the challenges of making information quickly and easily available to users of all levels and in preserving that information for audit and compliance purposes.

It also provides a view of how Microsoft is driving innovation in ECM with the upcoming release of Office “12” SharePoint servers that provide a broad set of ECM functionality on a unified platform. This solution scales to meet the needs of the most intensive ECM tasks and makes ECM available to every information worker in the organization. Download the white paper to learn more.

Download the document via Microsoft.com

Ferris Research: Microsoft Enterprise Content Management Looks Impressive

…Microsoft is never one to settle for just ok. They doggedly work on a product until it syncs up with the market it has helped to define. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a key deliverable of Office 12, built on SharePoint, and it looks impressive. Key features include an enterprise scalable document repository ultimately replacing file shares, a .NET defined workflow and approval system that will be part of the next desktop and server operating systems, and security and tracking via policy templates. Microsoft is also merging its technology to publish enterprise websites (Content Management Server, CMS) with SharePoint. …

OK, it just a small snippit from the Ferris Website, but nevertheless some recognition for things to expect in Office 12 … : Ferris.com

Microsoft and Open Text Announce New Strategic Relationship

Very good news on the ECM front. I highlighted some parts of the announcement in bold for the speedreaders.
This announcement again illustrates that more ISV’s see the Microsoft platform as the basis for their solutions. This way clients benefit from having a pltform with specific functionality where and when required without the duplication of more generic parts such as users administration, storage and what you have. I expect this is only the beginning of a lot of exciting stuff around Office 12 🙂

Microsoft Corp. and Open Text(TM) Corporation OTEX(TSX:OTC) announced a new strategic relationship to optimize Open Text’s comprehensive Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for the Microsoft(R) platform. This effort will take advantage of both companies’ global scale and complementary products to enable ECM solutions in large, complex customer environments.

As part of the announcement, Open Text, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, becomes a worldwide ECM partner with Microsoft. By deepening the relationship between Open Text and Microsoft, the companies will work to enhance Open Text solutions in ways that combine the power of the Microsoft platform and Open Text’s deep understanding of the ECM needs of large enterprises. The resulting end-to-end solutions from Open Text, which will include vertical-market offerings in financial services and government, will help companies address the complexity of managing an ever-growing volume of online information, a major source of productivity loss and compliance risks.

With today’s announcement, Open Text is also introducing two new solutions that use Open Text’s Livelink ECM suite and Microsoft Office SharePoint(R) Portal Server 2003. The expanded relationship and new solutions were unveiled to customers at Open Text’s LiveLinkUp Orlando 2005 user conference, underway this week in Orlando, Fla.

“Managing information more effectively is a priority, both to improve our business and manage compliance,” said Raj Patel, Chief Information Officer at Forest City Ratner Companies, an affiliate of Forest City Enterprises Inc., a $7.4 billion U.S. real estate company, which is adopting a new solution that tightens integration between Livelink ECM and the company’s Micrcosoft(R) SharePoint(R)-based solution. “We’ve invested in both Microsoft and Open Text as our strategic partners, and anything they do to better integrate and enhance one another’s strengths is a win for Forest City. Better integration between the two offers us greater long-term value. The companies bring together two key components of our ECM strategy: content creation and collaboration capabilities with Microsoft and deep enterprise compliance and records management with Open Text.”

“Our expanded relationship with Open Text will mean more innovative solutions that will reduce the complexities and risks of managing enterprise content,” said Rob Bernard, General Manager of global ISVs at Microsoft. “As a leader in ECM, Open Text offers both the experience and the enterprise-scale compliance management capabilities we’re looking for to complement our solutions. Tighter integration of our software will offer tremendous value to customers of both companies.”

“We see our close relationship with Microsoft and our commitment to the Microsoft platform as essential to meeting the new challenges our customers face,” said John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Text. “Microsoft offers the benefits of increased personal and group productivity, while our solutions allow customers to make compliance part of the way they do business every day. Together, we offer a unique blend of compliance and productivity, which helps enterprises succeed in today’s competitive and regulated environment.”

New Open Text Solutions for the Microsoft Platform

The new solutions introduced this week include an Open Text records management solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, which allows customers to extend compliance-driven records management retention and disposition policies to content maintained in SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The solution builds on Open Text’s previously announced content-archiving capabilities for SharePoint Portal Server 2003, which Open Text introduced in August. The records management and archiving offerings help customers create a compliant lifecycle management system for their SharePoint Portal Server 2003 records.

Open Text is also introducing Web Parts that expose Livelink ECM content and functionality in SharePoint Portal Server 2003. This new level of integration between the two solutions will allow SharePoint Portal Server 2003 users to utilize specific Livelink ECM capabilities and access content stored anywhere in Livelink ECM.

Future versions of Open Text solutions will be built on Microsoft Office “12,” the code name of the next major release of Microsoft Office products. Livelink ECM will connect directly with Microsoft’s ECM capabilities and extend the content created in Office “12” into key business processes.

“In Office ’12,’ we will offer powerful new capabilities to help companies manage content. Livelink ECM integration with Office ’12’ will enable customers to easily deploy solutions that increase the efficiency of content-driven, business-critical processes across their organizations,” said Sanjay Manchanda, Director of SharePoint Products and Technologies at Microsoft.

Last week, Open Text announced plans to offer its Artesia Digital Asset Management on the Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 database. The combined offering is aimed at media and entertainment companies that need to more effectively manage vast stores of digital assets, such as video, audio and graphics files.

Open Text has also agreed to support the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship development tool, Visual Studio(R) 2005, for the development of new Livelink ECM solutions that integrate with SharePoint Portal Server 2003. By supporting Visual Studio 2005, Open Text will enable developers and integrators to extend Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 functionality with Livelink ECM’s enterprise grade ECM capabilities and vertical market solutions.



Read on : MSN Money

Enterprise Content Management Suites Scorecard Summary: Microsoft

Microsoft is an enterprise content management (ECM) contender with an excellent product strategy that will unfold during the next two to three years. Microsoft currently lacks ECM breadth with a portfolio that provides basic document management and Web content management (WCM), both separate products with independent administration and repository services. In addition Microsoft’s document management (DM) and WCM products both lack essential features, like workflow for DM and WCM. However, the vendor’s vision for the information worker and the Office 12 road map — with its emphasis on collaboration, content life-cycle management, knowledge discovery, and employee self-sufficiency — give Microsoft a potentially strong future in ECM from an infrastructure perspective.

[Via Recent Research from Forrester]

Ferris on SharePoint and ECM

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Much activity around an opinion of David Via of Ferris about SharePoint and it’s Enterprise Content Management capabilities. I haven’t categorised it as Market Analysis because it is nothing more than an opinion with some unsubstantiated arguments. It is funny to see however how fast this is picked up by the IBM community as a (little) stick to hit with.

I think Bil Simer commented best to it. I hope people read his blog, because it seperates the facts from the FUD. There is more and far better market analysis out there on Microsoft Collaboration vision and platform comparing it to the other peers in the market. Check out my Market Analysis category to find the details with links to the actual reports.

For perhaps a more balanced view on the Enterprise Content Management market than Ferris’, take a look at Gartner ’s reports on this topic. The report Basic Content Services Will Give You Better Content Management Choices gives some highlights and links to other (paid) content. It addresses the question what is Enterprise Content Management to start with …

Collaboration Infrastructure Will Absorb Document Management For Workgroups

Enterprise content management and collaboration are rapidly becoming infrastructure decisions. Nowhere is this more evident than in the team collaboration software decisions of enterprise-class organizations. IT decision-makers in these organizations recognize that native document management (DM), not integration with an existing DM solution, is a top requirement for their team collaboration initiatives. High-end DM systems installed for document-intensive processes like new drug approval or litigation support will not disappear, but will be contained in pockets within organizations as enterprise collaboration platforms and information workplaces meet the needs of workgroups across the enterprise.
[Via Recent Research from Forrester]

This is defenitly a strong playingfield for Microsoft. Looking at Office System today and absolutely looking at the next wave of Products in Office 12.

Empowering the Microsoft Portal

… Open Text has a new tool, LiveLink for Microsoft SharePoint Document Archiving.
Of course, document archiving is what portals like SharePoint already do, so you may be wondering what value Open Text could add atop that.

It’s a question readily answered by Jens Rabe, director of compliance solutions for Open Text. “If you’re storing information of regulatory relevance, how do you make sure that the SQL Server survives for 7-10 years? The SEC requires lots of information to be kept on a write-once device; how do you save a database on a write-once device?”

Those are arguments for moving your archive-worthy information off SharePoint’s SQL Server back end and on to an enterprise repository like that of Open Text, which Rabe says is also more scalable than SQL server and can act as a back end for any number of deployments, whether from SharePoint, SAP, Siebel, or any other system. …

Coontinued at source : Line56.com

New Microsoft CMS (MCMS) Book On the Way

Packt Publishing hit a home run with the last Microsoft CMS (MCMS) book, Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server. The same team of star authors is now working on the next one, entitled Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development….

[Via CMSwire]