Quick Links, Oct 24

• Acquisition ... EMC Acquired Captiva Software ... EMC paid $275 million to acquire Captiva Software Corporation. Captiva's technology for the conversion of paper-based information to digital formats will be integrated with the Documentum ECM platform. EMC


• Story ... Zimbra's Secret Sauce ... Rob reviews Zimbra's approach to reinventing email, with reference to its recent white paper. Some good ideas. LinuxPlanet


• Perspective ... Navigation in SharePoint ... Robert shares some thoughts on how to design an intranet navigation scheme for SharePoint. The ideas apply to many things, not just SharePoint. Intranet Journal


• Perspective ... Six Priorities for CIOs ... Gartner laid out 6 priorities for CIOs in the coming year: (1) keeping tight control over IS, (2) creating a stable core of IT services, (3) managing the CEO-CIO relationship, (4) paying attention to security and risk, (5) building a business process capability, and (6) getting the right information to decision makers. SearchCIO


• Product ... Liquid Machines Documentum Gateway ... Liquid Machines and Trinity Technologies announced the Liquid Machines Documentum Gateway, an enterprise rights management platform to extend access control and audit capabilities of Documentum's ECM platform beyond the repository. Secures content and monitors usage of data when it is outside the Documentum environment. Available immediately. MarketWire


• Product ... eCapture for eRoom ... Visioneer and Daybreak ICS jointly announced eCapture for eRoom, enabling the scanning of a document and its delivery to an eRoom with a single push of a button. Available mid-November. BusinessWire


• Product ... Interwise and eRoom ... Interwise has completed its integration of Interwise ECP Connect (its voice, Web and video conferencing solution) with Documentum eRoom. Available immediately, for eRoom 6 and 7. BusinessWire


• Product ... Actify DesignShare ... Actify released DesignShare, a collaborative product data management solution, for sharing digital design work via Microsoft SharePoint. CCN Matthews


• From the Trenches ... Groove in Florida ... The Florida Division of Emergency Management embraced Groove Virtual Office to help it coordinate recovery efforts post-Katrina. Key deliverable: a "common operating picture". eWeek


• Report ... Real-Time Collaboration ... Collaborative Strategies released "Real-Time Collaboration and Communication Market Trends and Analysis 2006: A Market in Transition" ... its latest analyst report. Talks about the "on-demand" collaboration market. MarketWire