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e-Discovery for Google Docs: The Enterprise Guide CIO.com

September 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

As data stored in Google Docs is treated the same as data in emails and other documents when it comes to e-Discovery, companies using the Google Apps collaboration suite must be able to produce documents related to a discovery order or face the risk of multi-million dollar fines, lost revenue, and reputation. This whitepaper outlines the steps necessary to create a timely, repeatable, and tamper-proof e-Discovery process for Google Docs.

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RIM Launches Free Cloud-Based BlackBerry Management Suite for Small Businesses

August 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Businesses are increasingly warming up to the use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets for productivity and improved collaboration. But while there is the need to ensure their data is secure when accessed on mobile devices, not everyone can afford big IT departments and dedicated hardware to manage their tech-related assets. With this in mind, Research In Motion (news, site) has launched a cloud-based management service for BlackBerry devices.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Miniaturized

The BlackBerry Management Center is a free online service that small and medium enterprises can use to centrally manage BlackBerry devices. Considered an SME alternative to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), the service is designed for organizations with up to 100 BlackBerry smartphones that gain access to email from an ISP or a web-based service. The service can be set up to handle both company- and employee-owned devices, and will support an array of BlackBerry device models.

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Office 365 goes live, gives SMBs a taste of the enterprise

June 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Microsoft today launched Office 365, its cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite, in 40 countries around the world. Office 365 combines access to Exchange e-mail, Lync messaging, SharePoint collaboration, the Office Web Apps, all into one monthly subscription.

Seven different price plans are available; one for small businesses and individuals, at $6 per user per month, four enterprise plans from $10 to $27 per user per month, and two for kiosk workers, priced at $4 and $10 per person per month. The small business and enterprise plans all offer 25 GB of e-mail, SharePoint access, and Lync messaging; the more expensive price tiers then add Office Web App access, the full desktop Office suite, and Lync voice capabilities. There’s also an à la carte option allowing mix-and-match selection of features if the standard plans don’t fit an organization’s needs. The enterprise plans are more expensive than the comparably featured small business plan, but offer better support—the small business plan has no phone support—and better security—HTTPS access to SharePoint is only found on enterprise plans.

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Researchers demonstrate flexible epaper phone – Telegraph

May 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The PaperPhone is flexible and can be controlled by being bent, written on or used as a touchscreen.

The PaperPhone, built to determine how people use a flexible device, is a collaboration between researchers from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, Arizona State University, USA, researchers from the E-Ink Corporation.

“This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” Roel Vertegaal, director of the human media lab at Queen’s, said. “This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper.”

The epaper sheet, which uses the same e-Ink technology found in the Amazon Kindle ereader, is just millimetres thick and can be used to make phone calls, read ebooks and play music.

via Researchers demonstrate flexible epaper phone – Telegraph.

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Introducing Litigation Edge Pte Ltd, your one-stop litigation support and e-discovery services provider in Asia

April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Singapore’s Litigation Edge is a collaboration between 3 individuals with more than 30 years experience in varying aspects of litigation and law practice technology in Singapore and the USA, including engagements as e-discovery consultants, law practice workflow consultants, litigation support service providers and digitization specialists.

What sets Litigation Edge apart is:

  1. The range of litigation technology solutions and services that we provide
  2. Our partnership with international experts from jurisdictions with a mature e-discovery culture
  3. Our commitment to education, training and self-empowerment
  4. Our understanding and insight into law firm practices

We provide the whole spectrum of services under the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, including data collection, data processing (denisting and de-duplication), data conversion, and the provision of review tools for electronically stored documents.  We also specialize in providing litigation support services for paper-based documents, including bulk copying, scanning, delimiting and objective coding of documents. Our review tools and litigation support services enable law practices to take on document intensive litigation without the need to put more lawyers on the job.

Litigation Edge‘s one-stop litigation support and e-discovery services enables law practices to undertake trial preparation more cost effectively, with less stress and more successful outcomes.

Litigation Edge Pte Ltd
8 Robinson Road #10-00 Singapore
+65 6236 2846 Phone
info@litiedge.com Email
http://litiedge.com/ Web

 

Litigation Edge is a strategic partner of Global EDD Group and provides operations support to the company throughout the Asia Pacific region.

 

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Google launches preemptive strike at Office 365 | Office software – InfoWorld

February 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

How much is good enough? That question kept resonating through my Office 365-drenched brain as I started using the final version of Google’s new Office add-in, dubbed Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office (moniker gets high points for steak, not much for sizzle).

The product is a gussied-up version of DocVerse, a collaboration program Google bought in February 2010, and it doesn’t bring anything new to the online collaboration ball game. But it’s fast, easy, free to an extent — more about that shortly — and it offers a few unique capabilities you may find inviting.

Here’s how it works. After you download and install Cloud Connect and re-start Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you’re prompted to enter your Google credentials. Google asks for permission to allow Cloud Connect (Pavilion) access to your account. You can choose to save your documents to the Google Cloud automatically (every time you save in the application), or you can make the cloud sync manual (when you specifically click on the Sync button).

When the Office app comes up for air, it sprouts a new Ribbon (yech). Although it takes up substantial screen real estate, it allows you to change the sync state between automatic and manual, and it holds the requisite Sync button. When you save a document in automatic mode, or when you click the Sync button, a copy of the doc goes to your Google Docs account. As soon as the doc appears in Google Docs it’s assigned an URL, which you can email to other people and thus invite collaboration.

via Google launches preemptive strike at Office 365 | Office software – InfoWorld.

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VMWare Zimbra Release Focuses on ‘Sharing’ Not ‘Sending’

February 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Since VMWare (news, site) bought Zimbra from Yahoo last year, many have been wondering what the company wanted with an enterprise email, collaboration, and calendaring platform. The release of Zimbra 7 this week puts that in perspective and shows a company that is chasing after a larger part of the enterprise collaboration market.

While it may not be immediately obvious how Zimbra would fit into VMWare’s portfolio of cloud infrastructure and virtualization products, in the current climate where even end users are buzzing about the cloud, Zimbra 7 offers a more hands-on product for end users – as opposed to IT departments.

Zimbra 7 Platform

Zimbra 7 now provides a suite of next generation email and collaboration software with new data sharing capabilities, advanced calendaring and enhanced search as well as administration and management tools.

The combined product is downloadable as Zimbra Collaboration Server 7 (formerly Zimbra Collaboration Suite) along with beta versions of VMware Zimbra Desktop 7 and VMware Zimbra Appliance, which VMWare says will “free users and IT from more than two decades of complex, device-centric computing.”

Even if it only does that, it will be a hit, but the company says that running in parallel to this is a move toward providing user-focused cloud computing in the context of sharing things rather than sending things.

via VMWare Zimbra Release Focuses on ‘Sharing’ Not ‘Sending’.

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6 Resolutions to Ensure SharePoint Success in 2011

January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By addressing these six resolutions, you’ll be on your way to better understanding the context for SharePoint at your organization and setting the stage for SharePoint success in 2011.

  1. Take the time to understand your true needs around core SharePoint capabilities, especially document management and collaboration
  2. Evaluate your current application landscape before thinking about making SharePoint 2010 your core ECM system
  3. Avoid thinking of coexistence between SharePoint and other applications as either/or
  4. Get everyone involved in charting your organization’s approach to SharePoint and its role in the larger content management ecosystem
  5. Use a pilot to refine your approach to SharePoint
  6. Create a Center of Excellence to act as an ongoing governance body as SharePoint and your other content management applications continue to evolve

via 6 Resolutions to Ensure SharePoint Success in 2011.

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Linearcube Implements Electronic Document Management System

January 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Are you looking for an electronic document management system to solve all your collaboration issues? Please try LinearCube’s ContentCube suite of products. It is a web based solution built on Alfresco’ open source document management platform. With this software you can securely park your documents online and collaborate with your global teams. It is easy to use and has features like email integration, version control, interactive previews and Microsoft® Office integration.

Here are some of the features of this document management solution:

  • Office Integration: Integration with Word, Excel, PowerPoint – check-in/check-out directly in Office
  • Workflows: Includes out of the box workflow for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Time and Expense processes; Customized approval workflows
  • Document Types: Define custom document types and associated attributes, a document type can include multiple documents
  • Versioning: Definable version scheme, full versioning with rollback and purge capability
  • Collaboration: Document tagging, comments, discussions and share via email, subscription notifications

Along with these capabilities, you also have key word and full text search and the ability to upload entire file directories to the DMS via a desktop shared drive.

Full security at the document and folder level is also provided and you can see the complete history of a document’s lifecycle.

Now you can try it free for 30 days and take an informed decision

Are you looking for an electronic document management system to solve all your collaboration issues? Please try LinearCube’s ContentCube suite of products. It is a web based solution built onAlfresco’ open source document management platform. With this software you can securely park your documents online and collaborate with your global teams. It is easy to use and has features like email integration, version control, interactive previews and Microsoft® Office integration.

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U.S. General Services Administration is going Google | Official Google Blog

December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced its decision to move 17,000 employees and contractors to Google Apps for Government. GSA oversees the business of the U.S. federal government, providing real estate and building management services as well as acquisition and procurement assistance to other federal agencies.

GSA’s decision to switch to Google Apps resulted from a competitive request for proposal (RFP) process that took place over the past six months, during which the agency evaluated multiple proposals for replacing their existing on-premises email system. GSA selected Google partner Unisys as the prime contractor to migrate all employees in 17 locations around the world to an integrated, flexible and robust email and collaboration service in 2011.

By making this switch, GSA will benefit in a number of ways. Modern email and collaboration tools will help make employees more efficient and effective. Google Apps will bring GSA a continual stream of new and innovative features, helping the agency keep pace with advances in technology in the years ahead. And taxpayers will benefit too—by reducing the burden of in-house maintenance and eliminating the need to replace hardware to host its email systems, GSA expects to lower costs by 50 percent over the next five years.

Earlier this year, Google Apps became the first suite of cloud computing email and collaboration applications to receive Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification, enabling agencies to compare the security features of Google Apps to that of existing systems.

via Official Google Blog: U.S. General Services Administration is going Google.

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