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Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform company, announced the availability of a new package in the Nuxeo Marketplace that connects Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (EP)-based applications and the open source Business Intelligence tool, Eclipse BIRT. The Nuxeo - BIRT Integration offers report design and access from within a Nuxeo ECM application. The Nuxeo - BIRT Integration offers integrated reporting capabilities on top of Nuxeo EP-based applications, enabling the design, rendering, and access of reports and analytics. The BIRT Engine has been integrated in Nuxeo EP, so that reporting capabilities are available without leaving the Nuxeo application, and security controls can be managed in one place. The Nuxeo - BIRT Integration package is available on the Nuxeo Marketplace. http://www.nuxeo.com/ http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/

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. Using this solution, enterprises can take control over SharePoint sites to enforce broader compliance and archiving policies and help lower ongoing administration and storage costs. It also opens access to all enterprise content from within SharePoint. As detailed in a new online resource center at www.Better-Together-Central.com, Microsoft and OpenText have joined forces to help companies enable an ECM-driven compliance framework, aggregate content within business context, and more easily deploy SharePoint-based business applications with built-in compliance. Companies can also reduce the size of content repositories and eliminate silos, lowering storage and other maintenance costs. 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. Other capabilities in the solution include: Rule based archiving that requires no user interaction to archive content; The ability to archive and restore complete SharePoint sites; Support for new business application development on SharePoint using a DoD 5015.02-STD-certified records management infrastructure; Storage services for SharePoint that help to reduce the size of SharePoint databases and unload BLOBs from SQL Server; Support for managing physical records in SharePoint; Integration with OpenText Extended ECM for SAP; Integration with OpenText ECM Suite 2010 Shared Services. http://www.opentext.com http://www.microsoft.com>

IBM has announced further expansion of its information management portfolio, this time in the compliance and legal hold space with the acquisition of PSS Atlas, an e-Discovery vendor that provides software for document analysis, management and disposal. How much IBM paid for PSS has not been made public, but the acquisition adds a piece to its GRC solutions, to which it recently added Open Pages, a company that provides software for developing risk, compliance and internal audits strategies in the financial space. Designed specifically for enterprise legal departments, PSS’s software gives enterprises an overview of their corporate information, automates governance of that information and ultimately sets out disposal schedules for information that is no longer needed. PSS Systems was one of the founders of the Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council (CGOC), as well as the Information Governance Process Maturity Model, which includes process assessment and business case methodologies as well as models for best practice in the industry. IBM is not the only one starting to play big in the security and compliance market. This summer alone, Intel agreed to pay US$ 7.68 billion for McAfee, HP announced that it was buying security software provider ArcSight for US$ 1.5 billion and only a few weeks prior to that had beat Dell to pay US $2.07 billion for data storage and security company 3Par. http://www.ibm.com http://www.pss-systems.com/