In the lead up to the May 25 GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations ) effective date, organizations doing business with European Union citizens have been exploring what it takes to remain compliant with the new regulations.
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Akumina Launches Project-Based Collaboration for Office 365
Akumina announced today version 4 of its digital workplace software platform, including new capabilities designed for project-based collaboration. The new capabilities come in the form of Workspaces, a project-based collaboration platform, which Akumina officials said goes beyond team-based collaboration tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams.
Continue reading...Are ‘Shadow’ Collaboration Apps a Thing of the Past?
It feels like only last week shadow IT was one of the biggest concerns of C-Suite executives and IT managers. Shadow IT describes the phenomena of employees bringing in unapproved apps into the enterprise.
Continue reading...Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Docs.com
Microsoft has announced that it will be closing Docs.com, its file-sharing service, effective December 15 of this year, making it the first internal software casualty arising from the Redmond, Wash.-based giant’s late-2016 acquisition of LinkedIn. Marketplace reaction to the announcement has been muted thus far, underscoring the fact that
Continue reading...Microsoft Gives Skype More Muscle
Microsoft spent $8.5 billion to acquire Skype back in 2011. Since then, it's done a lot of work under the hood, molding it into something that fitted its own enterprise productivity ambitions and creating Skype for Business — arguably the most significant related development in the past five years.
Continue reading...CTERA Tightens Its File Sharing & Data Protection Tools
CTERA Networks, a New York City and Petach Tikvah, Israel-based provider of a cloud storage services platform, wants to push its enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) and endpoint backup application into highly regulated industries, including financial institutions, multinational companies and government agencies. To fortify and simplify its CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform,
Continue reading...Secure File Transfer Vendor Aims to Solve Data Transfer Problems
San Antonio, Texas-based GlobalSCAPE aims to make large file transfers faster, more efficient and more reliable. The secure file transfer specialist this week released Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) version 7.
Continue reading...You Can’t Afford to Ignore Content Management
Organizations are facing massive problems with content overload, especially from data generated by the Internet of Things (IoT), according to a recently published market intelligence report from AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management.
But the report (registration required) also shows that most businesses view enterprise content and document management as mission critical — and that many enterprises are making significant steps in getting the problem under control.
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AvePoint Lets You Share With SharePoint
AvePoint just released a new service pack that lets you share and sync files in and out of SharePoint, through the company firewall. More accurately, AvePoint has upgraded its Perimeter Service Pack 4 that allows file syncing and sharing in both directions.
Daniel Wilkens, product manager at AvePoint, called it a substantial upgrade that extends Perimeter’s functionality from one-way sharing of information to two-way collaboration.
It allows people outside of the organization to use Office Web Apps "to securely edit content shared with them or upload new content to shared folders or libraries within the Perimeter Portal," he said.
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