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Box.net announced it closed $81 million in funding from a mix of investors including NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures and existing investors. As revealed on their company blog, Box has aspirations to compete with Microsoft's Sharepoint. Box is currently available on most mobile platforms, while SharePoint is currently tied to Windows Phones. Yet Box also lacks the full array of content management features that an enterprise user may currently need/use from Sharepoint. http://box.net/

SpringCM announced the latest release of its cloud enterprise content management platform. Highlights of the release: New collaboration features help teams managing tasks and content to stay on the same page, including project activity streams; notifications when projects are started and tasks are assigned; New SharePoint Web Parts make it easier to provide relevant content from SpringCM right within department or project SharePoint sites; Support for Microsoft's cloud service, SharePoint Online for Office 365; and customers can view the contracts through the SpringCM interface while executives can access the contracts through SpringCM Mobile for iPad. http://www.springcm.com/

NewsGator announced Social Sites 2010 Version 2.0, which introduces new product developments for Microsoft SharePoint organizations. Now available, the new version adds a host of enhancements to the company's flagship social computing suite in these areas: Enhanced Microblogging; More Activity Stream Filters; Community Templates; Advanced Email Integration; and Enhanced Architecture for performance and scalability. http://www.newsgator.com

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>

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a provider of viewing, collaboration and redaction technology announced the release of its Brava! Enterprise 7 software for Microsoft SharePoint® 2010. Brava for SharePoint allows users to interact with documents anywhere, anytime using their web browser. Brava adds document-centric workflow actions including the ability to add stamps, create threaded discussions and other markups, publish documents to PDF or TIFF, and redact sensitive content and privacy information. With Brava, SharePoint 2010 customers can: View many file formats, even CAD drawings, within SharePoint; Enhance SharePoint document searches with thumbnails, full document previews, in-document context-based and term-hit navigation; Enhance transactional, document-centric workflows to provide greater usability, efficiency, content security and the accuracy of change communication; Provide users more insight into the document by embedding a thumbnail, full document view or document metadata display on any SharePoint page through standard web parts; Support compliance requirements by adding metadata-driven stamps or watermarks, recording discussions and their resolutions and by performing pattern-based redaction. www.infograph.com/

Equilibrium, a provider of Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions, announced MediaRich ECM for SharePoint. The "Instant-on" feature automatically creates thumbnail and multiple views of images, videos and audio files while compiling metadata in any document library web part. Static documents and images can be viewed in detail with Unizoom, Equilibrium’s proprietary universal zoom and pan technology requiring no plug-ins, provides viewing of any file on any browser or smart devices from within SharePoint. For video and audio, Equilibrium’s new Silverlight streaming player is utilized in combination with MediaRich to provide audio/video proxy creation and management enabling a small proxy, or the entire video to be shown in one of 4 pre-set resolutions. All of the visualization functionality is now available in SharePoint search, including video playback, audio review and Unizoom for all documents and other media types. MediaRich ECM for SharePoint connects to the SharePoint Server and automatically handles the derivative cache management reducing the strain of pulling files from within databases and simultaneously providing just-in-time content preparation eliminating the need to pre-process multiple versions of files in advance. In 4.2 the media asset management capabilities have been expanded to enable batch metadata enhancement during any upload into SharePoint, providing the ability to append or replace metadata into any field in large groups of files during the upload process. New features include: forms based authentication support; the addition of the MediaRich content type; as well as centralizing extracted IPTC, EXIF and Adobe XMP metadata which is saved into the SQL Server. MediaRich ECM for SharePoint version 4.2 is available for Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, all from a single. MediaRich is fully compatible with remote blob storage systems including Metalogix StoragePoint and can be expanded. equilibrium.com/

Adobe Systems Incorporated introduced the Adobe Acrobat X software family – Acrobat X, Reader X, the Acrobat X Suite and new document exchange services at Acrobat.com. Acrobat X features new guided Actions to simplify multi-step document preparation and publishing processes as well as customization capabilities in PDF Portfolios to unify multiple file types into a presentation. Integration with Microsoft SharePoint encourages consistency of PDF documents across the enterprise, and the re-use of content is now easier with an improved function for exporting to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. New Acrobat X Features include: Automate routine, multi-step tasks with new guided Actions and share them with coworkers and collaborators; Change how users view and interact with content and its context with PDF Portfolios using new layouts, visual themes and color palettes; Synergy between Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat  for creating more dynamic communications; Capture, edit and combine digital content right from the desktop; Microsoft SharePoint integration; Check-in, check-out PDF files for reviewing and editing shared documents; Streamline the process for deploying, configuring and managing updates and conform to ISO standards; ans well as the ability to display the most commonly used tools in one pane with the updated user interface. New in Adobe Reader X: Commenting is now available in Adobe Reader X, with Sticky Notes and Highlighter tools available to all users; Expands PDF access to mobile devices with free Adobe Reader X for Android, Windows® Phone 7 and Blackberry Tablet OS; and safer viewing of PDF files with new Protected Mode security capabilities in Reader X. www.adobe.com

Open Text Corporation, the provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, announced the availability of a complete set of products and services intended to help enterprise information technology (IT) groups centrally manage large numbers of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 sites from creation through archiving. The consulting services will be led by Burntsand which joins Open Text after a recent acquisition. Using the SharePoint 2010 version of Open Text Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Open Text Case Management Framework for SharePoint 2010, Open Text services can help IT departments deploy the infrastructure needed to take control over unmanaged SharePoint 2010 deployments. Moreover, it can give users simple tools to create and deploy SharePoint 2010 sites and applications in accordance with corporate governance policies and manage the lifecycle of SharePoint 2010 sites. Open Text enhances SharePoint 2010 by adding a case-centric business application and process layer. Open Text business applications typically comprise a business database and records and archive repository, as well as a number of integrated SharePoint 2010 features, workflows, forms, reports and an administration user interface. Open Text’s solutions for Microsoft are offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite.http://www.opentext.com/

Open Text Corporation announced full support across the Open Text ECM Suite for Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, allowing customers to confidently migrate to the latest platform. The Open Text announcement of comprehensive support for Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 was made in conjunction with Microsoft’s U.S. Launch. This announcement extends Open Text’s ongoing corporate strategy to embrace Microsoft Office and SharePoint as a familiar user interface to access and use the Open Text core infrastructure and platform for advanced ECM solutions. Open Text offers a wide range of solutions that extend Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 including: integrated records management and archiving, content lifecycle management, email management, e-discovery and litigation readiness, enhanced web content management for SharePoint 2010, SAP integration, document capture and fax solutions, a development framework for case management applications and specialized vertical-market solutions. http://www.opentext.com/

Recommind, a provider of search-powered information risk management, has announced the availability of MindServer Search 7.0, the latest version of its enterprise search product. Recommind's aim is to help enterprises to get relevant search results to their information workers from tools such as Microsoft SharePoint. Built on Recommind's CORE platform (Context Optimized Relevancy Engine), MindServer Search 7.0 adds new collaborative features such as social tagging, delivery of content via RSS, a new Web-based administration client designed to simplify maintenance and accelerate deployments and an enhanced user interface. MindServer Search 7.0 supports search for content in SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010. Users can set their RSS aggregator clients to regularly send queries to MindServer Search and receive results back in RSS format. Additional enhancements include a new administration console and a relevancy console with enhanced tuning and reporting capabilities. http://www.recommind.com/