Cathleen Moore

A raft of new software offerings are taking aim at the growing problem of electronic records management, which as ascended to a top priority for many enterprises in recent years as tighter corporate governance and regulatory scrutiny have increased pressure on the issue.

Attempting to improve the accuracy of corporate information retrieval technology, several vendors are incorporating techniques designed to identify people, proper names, and places buried within text and analyze relationships between those assets.

Collaboration software vendor eRoom Technology Inc. in November rolled out a thin-client viewer for CAD (computer aided design) files commonly used by manufacturing, engineering, and pharmaceutical companies to develop products and share technical data.

The rising tide of intertwined structured and unstructured data types is threatening to engulf corporations as a multitude of computing devices flourishes in a sea of diverse file formats, protocols, and standards. Chasing user demand for seamless consumption of multiple data types on a single client, technologies earmarked to capture and manage digital data are converging.

ORLANDO, FLA. - At the annual Lotusphere conference here this week, third-party vendors unwrapped a bevy of tools designed to bolster management and performance of messaging products from IBM Corp.'s Lotus Software.

At the annual Lotusphere conference here this week, third-party vendors unwrapped a bevy of tools designed to bolster management and performance of messaging products from IBM Corp.'s Lotus Software.

At its annual Lotusphere show next week in Orlando, Fla., IBM Lotus Software plans to unveil two projects currently under development that are designed to bridge Domino and WebSphere development environments and protect existing Domino developer skill sets, according to officials at the Cambridge, Mass.-based company.

Next week at its AppsWorld show in San Diego, Oracle Corp. plans to announce the availability of new portal features in its Oracle 9i Application Server designed to simplify portlet creation for business users.