ECM Briefs

EVENTS:

1. Today OpenText is at the LA Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2011. Click here for more details.
2. OpenText will be at the 2011 NAB Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (April 9-11, Booth SL8821), where we'll be showing attendees how to manage, understand, monetize and mobilize digital content. Click here to register and for further information.

WEBINARS:

1. The OpenText Web Solutions Group wants to give you the latest and greatest in tomorrow's product update webinar. Click here to register.

On Tuesday, OpenText announced the immediate availability of OpenText Application Governance & Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, a new offering that provides integrated end-to-end management of SharePoint 2010 sites and documents across an entire enterprise.

"Much of enterprise content management comes down to walking a fine line between corporate policy and user productivity," said Brian Donaldson, Vice President, Microsoft Solutions and Ecosystem, OpenText. "With our Application Governance & Archiving solution, we re making it much easier for customers to determine the ideal SharePoint user experience while keeping the peace of mind that comes from knowing they have a central retention and records management, and long-term archival system in place."

Application Governance & Archiving consolidates the functionality in Open Text CLM Services for Microsoft SharePoint and OpenText Case Management Framework for Microsoft SharePoint and adds new site management capabilities. From a web-based site management console, administrators can manage SharePoint success metrics, collect metadata about sites, control approval processes and manage new site deployments using simple scripts.

On Thursday, a new research report co-sponsored by OpenText and AIIM, the enterprise content management (ECM) organization, was announced during AIIM's Info360 conference. The report provides quantifiable insight into how better strategies around the management of information and content can help companies operate more profitably and capitalize on the positive benefits from knowledge sharing, collaboration and business process improvement. A podcast featuring AIIM's Doug Miles and OpenText CMO James Latham was produced in support of this new report.

"In all businesses, content is growing rapidly. We know that productivity, compliance and business responsiveness will steadily decline if nothing is done to manage this content deluge," said Doug Miles, Director of the AIIM Market Intelligence Division, and author of Capitalizing on Content: A Compelling ROI for Change, a white paper on the survey results. "In this report, we measured ROI factors closely, quantifying the improvements that a well-implemented ECM system can provide, and indicating the potential costs of compliance and security lapses. The opportunities for business improvement are remarkably significant."

On the blogs this week, Tom Jenkins posted 'Houston, we have a solution - Compliance,' which discusses how when companies integrate content management with SharePoint, employees tend to keep within compliance. Jennifer McCredie discusses a case study on Houston Community College in her post, 'Making the Web Work for You'; the Fax Solutions Team connects the dots between 'Laughing babies, paper and RightFax'; and Matt Mullen recaps another 24 hours in social media.

EVENTS:

The International SAP Conference for Financial Services will get underway on Tuesday, March 22nd in London. Click here for more details.

AIIM's Info360 Expo will take place on Tuesday, March 22nd in Washington, DC. Stop by OpenText's Booth #MP20 in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion. Click here for details.

WEBINARS:

Tuesday's webinar will document the 'Journey of a HR Department to Achieve Efficiency & Cost Savings.' Click here for more information.

Those who think faxing is a thing of the past will discover otherwise on Thursday, March 24th. This Content World 365 webinar will focus on the future of fax. Click here to register.

On Thursday, March 24th, take part in the King of the Content Mountain webinar. SEO guru Timothy Nobles from Words Go Here and OpenText Chief Marketing Officer James Latham will discuss using semantic navigation for search engine optimization. Click here to register.

On Tuesday, OpenText closed its acquisition of UK-based mobility apps developer weComm. An acquisition agreement was announced between the two companies just last week in a press release.

Tom Jenkins is featured in two separate articles in Australia's ITWire this week. In the article entitled "Data Doubles Daily a Decade Hence," he discusses how the scale of the private web developed by companies and government is driving the amount of data being stored. While cheap storage is allowing companies to simply hoard more and more information, organizations are struggling to manage and find that information in a timely and economic fashion - and are starting to come up against limits in terms of running the data centers to host it. This is one of the reasons he believes cloud based computing and storage would be adopted rapidly.

In another ITWire piece, "Bubblegum and Paperclips Fail to Impress," Tom Jenkins argues that the simple keyword search that many businesses use to find information within their terabyte scale corporate databases will land themselves in hot water with regulators. "If organizations are simply blindly storing all this information and sitting back and saying 'I've complied' - well they haven't. You have to be able to find the information and simple search engines will not find that information," he states.

On the Conversations blog this week, OpenText CMO James Latham discusses the importance of delivering interesting, compelling and engaging content to customers in his post entitled, 'Catch the Wave, Then What?'  Alex Benay comments on why HR practices are the cause of slow Cloud adoption and why he believes emerging states will be in the Cloud faster than developed nations. In addition, Matt Mullen provides us with an update on OpenText's Semantic Navigation.

Lastly, check out Tom Jenkins' latest 'Content Shift' blog post from his recent trip to Canada 3.0. Here, he realizes that in order to 'compete to win,' Canadians must embrace new opportunities in a globalized world. Tom includes his Canada 3.0 slide deck for perusal in this post as well.

EVENTS:

1. From March 15-18, OpenText will be exhibiting in booth #505 at the SAP BI & IT 2011 event in Las Vegas. Click here for more details. 

WEBINARS:

1. On Tuesday, March 15th, 'Digital Mailroom' webinar participants will learn how to improve customer service by reducing paper passing. Click here for more information.    
2. Learn how to share! Take part in OpenText's March 17th webinar: 'Collaboration Isn't Normal.' Click here to register.
3. Make your content connect! Register today for a one hour on-demand webinar on state-of-the-industry content marketing and an introduction to unique benefits of Semantic Navigation.

On Tuesday, March 8th, OpenText announced it reached an agreement to acquire London-based weComm, a deal which will propel OpenText forward in a fast-growing segment of the mobility market.

weComm's technology will facilitate OpenText in delivering a strategic platform to companies that will help them provide rich, immersive mobile apps cost-effectively across a wide assortment of mobile operating systems and devices to reach their customers, consumers or partners.

"As mobile devices are changing the consumer landscape, more enterprise customers are moving to mobile apps to reach everyone from customers to employees," said Eugene Roman, Chief Technology Officer at OpenText. "This advanced technology allows our customers to rapidly deliver highly functional apps on all types of devices economically, giving them an enormous edge over their competitors both in efficiency and time to market." According to Roman, weComm will enable OpenText to accelerate the mobility strategy it launched in 2010 with the introduction of OpenText Everywhere.

A new article on secure social networking by Tom Jenkins appears in the current issue of FutureGov. In the piece, he discusses how G-20 policy makers from around the world have been collaborating via secure social networking software from OpenText. "The users are very busy people, so even at the summits, they might not be able to attend all meetings are discuss all issues. The application helps them keep in touch and plan key talking points during the weeks leading up to the summits," says Jenkins in the article.

On the Conversations blog this week, Martin-Sumner Smith discusses the implicit value of content and how it relates to ECM; Deb Lavoy summarizes her latest CMSWire article, which focuses on the kind of skills we need to focus on to collaborate successfully; Matt Mullen blogs about the level to which companies actually really listen to consumer feedback (especially via social media); and the Fax Solutions team explains how to send a fax using Google Apps. In addition, on his own blog, Lubor Ptacek provides commentary on the benefits of the weComm acquisition.

Events:

From March 8-11, OpenText will be exhibiting in booth #675 at the SAP Financials 2011 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. HR 20011 and GRC 2011 are part of this event. For more information, please see here.

Webinars:

Joint the OpenText Content World 365 webinar on March 8th: OpenText eDOCS Integration with Microsoft SharePoint Overview. Click here to register.

On Tuesday, March 1st, OpenText unveiled Exceed onDemand 8. This new X11 window server gives users fast, reliable and secure remote access to applications over any network connection. Exceed onDemand 8 offers support for the popular Mac OS X platform along with a number of performance and productivity enhancements that enable customers to centrally distribute and manage access to UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows applications.

"Enterprises are facing increasing pressure to deliver better results on time and on budget. Exceed onDemand helps them improve the performance of their business operations by simplifying and extending their application delivery infrastructure - and we're continuing the momentum with this new release," said Eugene Cherny, General Manager for OpenText's connectivity solutions. "Its industry-proven architecture offers automatic workload balancing and scalability, helping to accelerate access to business applications while boosting user productivity through real-time team collaboration."

For further information on all the new enhancements in this latest version of Exceed onDemand, please see here.

OpenText received some nice media coverage this past week. In this month's edition of Backbone magazine, Tom Jenkins discusses his perspectives on what cloud computing and social media bring to corporate Canada.

In addition, OpenText was again named by KMWorld magazine as one of the "KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management." According to KMWorld's Editor-in-Chief Hugh McKellar, the firms on this list are true innovators that are dedicated to understanding what their customers need and delivering elegant frameworks, processes, or technology for the requirements of the knowledge economy. The list is compiled by KMWorld's editorial team and through collaboration with colleagues, knowledge management practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors, and customers.

On Monday, January 24th, 2011, we marked OpenText's 15 year listing anniversary on the NASDAQ. To commemorate the day, OpenText CEO John Shackleton presided over the NASDAQ Opening Bell, along with other OpenText representatives including Tom Jenkins, Paul McFeeters, Greg Secord, among others. See what Tom Jenkins wrote about this event and check out the video from NASDAQ on his blog post.

Speaking of blogs, the INFORMation Governance team officially launched their blog last week on the new Innovate blogging platform, where Tom Jenkins' blog resides. This blog will include updates from Liz Kofsky, Stephen Ludlow, Jeremy Barnes, Tracy Caughell, Lynn Elwood and Cathy Smith on the topics of information governance, archiving, records management, eDiscovery and compliance. Please check out the latest posts and stay tuned to see other team and individual blogs appearing on this new platform in the coming weeks!