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Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX:OTC) announced the release of Version 2.0 of its Open Text Employee Information Management (EIM) solution. Highlights of the new version include improved user navigation, tighter integration with the SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) solution, as well as a new feature that allows guest users to temporarily access content in personnel folders, subject to security policies. Open Text EIM 2.0 brings new ECM capabilities to automate document-intensive HR processes, so that HR departments can redirect their focus from administrative tasks to strategic tasks. The solution manages the entire lifecycle of employee information and helps meet legal data protection guidelines and provisions concerning document storage and deletion. With Open Text EIM 2.0, users can access SAP ERP HCM data directly from the Open Text solution and execute SAP transactions without having to switch between applications. In reverse, relevant employee folders in EIM can be directly called up from SAP ERP HCM. All documents in a personnel folder are made available via a folder structure with categories and sub-categories. Using thumbnail images of documents, users can quickly find desired documents. Microsoft Office documents or emails can be inserted using drag and drop. EIM 2.0 is available now. http://www.opentext.com/

DocsCorp announced its partnership with LexisNexis Visualfiles in the UK to jointly develop a Document Bundling solution for the legal profession. This collaboration will deliver a solution that will allow legal professionals and administrators to automate their court bundle production process, to benefit from time and cost savings, and enhance the quality of their court bundles. This solution will be integrated with Visualfiles. In addition, the solution will incorporate advanced PDF creation functionality that will allow users to create PDFs from any application, combine multiple documents into a single PDF, markup PDFs with drawings and annotations and redact sensitive information, to name just a few features. The LexisNexis Document Bundling module will deliver efficiency gains, not just by automating the labour-intensive bundling process, but also by reducing associated costs of printing, paper and storage. http://www.docscorp.com

RSD announced the availability of two new product releases: RSD Folders 5.1 for Windows, Linux and UNIX, and RSD Doc2Print 2.1. RSD Folders 5.1 for Windows, Linux and UNIX includes several key enhancements. The new release includes new security and activity tracking capabilities, expanded document capture options and scalability improvements. Security enhancements include support for secure LDAP, LDAPS. RSD Folders 5.1 has new activity tracking features which allow authorized users to review all user activity in the RSD Folders repository. Document capture enhancements enable management of a broader variety of AFP data stream types. In addition, RSD Folders 5.1 expands repository index capacity, enabling high performance document retrieval from repositories containing billions of documents. RSD Doc2Print is designed for high-volume printing, particularly in a distributed, multi-platform environment. Doc2Print efficiently automates print management at the department or enterprise level. While Doc2Print is well-integrated with RSD EOS and RSD Folders products. Doc2Print 2.1 includes enhancements to address the demands of high- volume enterprise print environments. This release includes support for 64-bit Windows, expanded capabilities to manage high-volume scenarios like load-balancing and job distribution to multiple printer targets, and support for printer management capabilities like detecting printer status and printer availability. http://www.rsd.com

Workshare and QUMAS announced a partnership to offer customers a document lifecycle management solution. With this partnership, QUMAS customers can enhance their existing compliance investment by leveraging WorkshareOpen, a platform that offers a set of open APIs for document comparison, policy management, and auditing. The core of the WorkshareOpen platform, Workshare's content analysis engine, has been integrated into the QUMAS DocCompliance product to provide customers with document comparison, change control, and compliance solution. The partnership will also provide Workshare with additional exposure to nearly 300,000 QUMAS users. Integrating QUMAS DocCompliance and the WorkshareOpen platform provides a document lifecycle management solution that enables organizations to create, manage and securely store all content, reports and records while maintaining a compliance-ready state. Through customizable security policies, the system automates and controls the review, approval, distribution and management of documents as well as policy changes, providing 100 percent traceable accountability throughout the organization. The combination of DocCompliance and WorkshareOpen enables users to provide change control over documents in workflows, with visibility into an audit trail of document activity. This allows reviewers, editors and approvers to be absolutely sure of the changes that have been made to a document before it is finally approved. http://www.qumas.com/ http://www.workshare.com/

DocuLex announced the release of Archive Studio WebSearch 4.1. New features to the content management software include SharePortal, which allows the knowledge user to securely share content and collaborate with third party individuals or organizations without user logins. Automated Expirations were added to provide a self management effort of eliminating temporary access to invitations, files and folders made available by SharePortal permission and granted by WebSearch users. Workflow enabling Auto Notification is now available for assignment to files and folders. Users or communities may be automatically notified if files or folders are added, deleted, checked-out, edited, etc. Workflow inbox and folder routing is also enabled, allowing users to customize folder content to meet their business process requirements for routing documents and notifying users to perform their assigned activity. The Records Retention addition to WebSearch provides an automated process of classifying a record to a particular records series. The automated Records Retention processes include management reports, shredding, off-line archiving and legal hold capabilities. WebSearch browser-based file indexing accommodates the business process of adding documents via MFP, FAX or electronically generated files. The process of generating index values for records can be performed as a post process from anywhere with via a browser and secure access to documents. http://www.doculex.com

Workshare announced WorkshareOpen, a platform that allows independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators, value-added resellers (VARs) and enterprise IT departments to integrate Workshare's comparison technology with other business solutions. The company also announced its first three technology OEM partners, Upside Software, QUMAS, and Cryptzone; and two integration partners, Softlinx and Gimmal, that will use WorkshareOpen to leverage Workshare's functionality within their applications. Workshare's document comparison, analysis, and protection solutions ensure document integrity and enforce governance and compliance policies. The WorkshareOpen platform makes it easy to incorporate these capabilities into other applications, via local or web services calls, enabling functional interoperability and consistency for all business processes that incorporate unstructured data. At the core of the WorkshareOpen platform is Workshare's DeltaView Engine. This technology compares documents, analyzes their contents, discovers sensitive information, suggests or enforces appropriate remediation, and provides an audit trail to help enforce corporate policies. http://www.workshare.com/

A2iA, a provider of tools for document analysis and handwritten data extraction, announced that they have signed a global partner agreement with ReadSoft, a provider of software solutions for Document Automation. A2iA's technology enables ReadSoft to incorporate all cursive handwritten documents such as letters, complaints, and other correspondence, into the workflow containing other printed and electronic documents. With this integration ReadSoft's customers have one portal for all incoming documents electronic or paper-based - no matter if they are printed or cursive handwritten. ReadSoft Documents feeds the business documents and data to the right recipients in the business processes. http://www.a2ia.com

Autonomy Corporation announced that its business process management and intelligent electronic forms solutions provide support for corporate users of the Apple iPhone. This marks the latest addition to the company's list of user-facing mediums for securely collecting, presenting and automating information related to business processes based on the meaning of the content, including HTML, PDF, BlackBerry and paper- based forms and documents. Autonomy delivers integration with the Apple iPhone, providing capabilities including auditable and secure digital signatures, approval workflow, information collection, business activity monitoring, analytics and collaboration to global enterprises. The Autonomy Business Process Management and Intelligent Document suite automates all aspects of paper-based, mobile and Web-based human-centric business processes. This technology forms an understanding of the content and purpose of information in the organization and uses that understanding to guide people throughout the process lifecycle, providing them with the right information and right user interface, whether web, mobile, paper, email or voice, needed to complete tasks quickly and accurately. http://www.autonomy.com/

YouSendIt, Inc. announced it has expanded its direct file delivery platform with a plug-in for Adobe's Acrobat, allowing business professionals to send files up to 2GB directly from the application. The YouSendIt plug-in for Acrobat allows users to send directly from the application, avoiding the need for FTP transfers or burning large files to a CD to ship overnight. Files delivered through YouSendIt are not subject to e-mail size limitations or firewall obstructions, and can also be tracked with YouSendIt's delivery options so the sender knows when files have been received. Additionally, the YouSendIt plug-in for Acrobat includes the protection of resumable upload. Should an Internet connection be momentarily lost during file upload, activity will resume automatically once the connection has been restored. It also allows users to configure the amount of time a file is available for download or the number of times it is downloaded. The Acrobat plug-in can be used with Acrobat Standard and Professional versions 8 and 9 for Microsoft Windows and with Acrobat Professional versions 8 and 9 for Mac. The plug-in can be downloaded directly from the YouSendIt Web site. http://www.yousendit.com/

DOCCENTER, developers of document management service solutions, announced DocLanding, which leverages software-as-a-service (SaaS) to allow individuals and small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) to centralize, manage, search, share and unshare their documents. DocLanding is a solution that provides a platform for controlled collaboration at home, work and play. After scanning or uploading documents, DocLanding allows users to electronically file, search and retrieve information, and share it with anyone. DocLanding is designed for the average user, leveraging an intuitive graphical user interface. Additionally, users can customize their POINTs or Personal Information Terminals, to reflect the way they organize and classify information. With one password, a user can access their files and documents, as well as the POINTs of others. DocLanding offers an annotation tool with the ability to black out or redact sensitive words or phrases plus features such as document deskewing and despeckling. Additional security features include the ability to apply watermarks and to control viewing and check out privileges. Even financial and health documents can be confidentially shared and accessed. DocLanding also allows the preview of many popular file types, such as the Microsoft 2007 Office Suite and Photoshop, without having the software installed. Documents can also be "locked" to prevent accidental deletion or movement. http://www.doccenterinc.com