EMC Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are substantially stepping up their existing enterprise content management (ECM) relationship to provide tighter integration between EMC's Documentum ECM software and Microsoft's Office, Outlook and SharePoint products.
IBM Corp. announced new automated software designed to tackle the mounting issue of records management and compliance within the enterprise. The Armonk, N.Y.-based firm also revealed that its new WebSphere Data Integration Suite (code named Hawk) would be ready for beta testing this June.
Industry efforts to create a standard connection layer for content repositories such as content management systems and portals took a step forward this week.